Extra: Taken By The Taliban

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🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Ryan Corbett, an American businessman, moved to Afghanistan in 2010 with his family and became actively involved in the community. In August 2022, he, along with several others, was captured and detained by the Taliban after returning to the country to renew his business visa and pay his employees. Since then, his wife, Anna Corbett, has advocated for his release and pleaded with the Biden administration for assistance. Earlier this week, Anna joined Rundown host Dave Anthony to share Ryan's story and describe her efforts to secure her husband's release. She explained how the outgoing Biden White House failed to secure a recent deal to bring Ryan home but why she has renewed hope after traveling to Mar-a-Lago and meeting with President-elect Trump’s National security adviser pick, Mike Waltz. We often must cut interviews short during the week, but we thought you might like to hear the full interview. Today on Fox News Rundown Extra, we will share our entire interview with Anna Corbett, allowing you to hear more about her husband’s story and the effort to get him out of an Afghanistan jail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.9	This is the Fox News Rundown, Extra.
0:34.5	I'm Dave Anthony.
0:36.5	Today, a wife and mother's desperate attempt to be reunited with her husband.
0:42.7	In a story that's direct fallout from the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021,
0:48.1	as the Taliban took back control of the country, there are some Americans who are being held hostage,
0:53.7	declared by the U.S. government wrongfully
0:55.3	detained. Earlier this month, news broke of a possible prisoner swap to free three Americans,
1:01.3	Ryan Corbett, George Glesman, and Mahmoudabibi in exchange for a terror suspect imprisoned at the U.S.
1:07.0	run Guantanamo facility in Cuba. But apparently there's a holdup in that deal that President
1:12.3	Biden informed their relatives about personally. And it was devastating to Ryan Corbett's wife, Anna.
1:19.1	And the other day we talked to her about that phone call and her meeting that same day near the
1:24.3	Trump estate in Florida with the president elects incoming national security advisor Michael
1:29.3	Waltz. And of course, we talked about how Ryan was kidnapped and why and her nonstop ever to try
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