FOX News Rundown Extra: Terrorists "Running Rampant"? The Growing Concerns Over America's Afghan Exit

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🗓️ 27 June 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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America's troops continue to withdraw from Afghanistan. But while the U.S. has been there for nearly two decades, there are concerns we're leaving too soon. The Taliban is reportedly taking over more parts of the country and is expected to seize more once America's exit is scheduled to be complete after September, 11th of this year. Republican Florida Congressman Brian Mast was badly injured as an army staff sergeant in Afghanistan in 2010. He thinks the withdrawal is not being executed properly. On the FOX News Rundown earlier this week, host Dave Anthony spoke to Rep. Mast about why he objects to President Biden's Afghanistan exit strategy and why he believes terrorists may soon 'run rampant' around the country. Rep. Mast also weighed in on the House's recent vote to repeal the 2002 war powers resolution that authorized the use of military force in Iraq. Something he also took issue with. The conversation was too long and we could not include all of it in our original segment. On the FOX News Rundown Extra, you will hear our entire conversation with veteran and Florida Republican Rep. Brian Mast. He gives more of his take on Afghanistan and Iraq, but he also weighs in on President Biden's recent efforts to combat America's crime surge and more strictly enforce gun laws. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	This is the Fox News rundown, Extra.
0:19.0	I'm Dave Anthony. Today a wounded warrior turned congressman Brian Mast from Florida who was
0:30.6	badly injured as an army staff sergeant in the war in Afghanistan 11 years ago
0:35.2	and is now closely monitoring on the House Foreign Affairs Committee the US
0:40.3	troop withdrawal from that country set to be complete by September 11th, 20 years
0:47.0	after the terror attacks in the U.S. that led us into the war on terror.
0:50.9	We talked to the congressman earlier this week before President Biden's meeting
0:55.1	at the White House with Afghan leaders including President Ghani. One big issue, the
1:00.5	Taliban taking advantage of our departure.
1:03.2	The militants have taken over more than 80 districts in Afghanistan
1:06.8	and the UN envoy to Afghanistan told the security council the other day
1:11.4	she's worried the Taliban could seize some provincial capitals
1:15.4	after we leave. We also talked to congressmen masked about the president's
1:19.6	strategy to deal with rising crime in the US, something you didn't get to hear at all in the
1:25.1	rundown last week because we didn't have the time. Well today we do. Thank you as
1:30.8	always for listening. Please come back for more.
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