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Good morning, I'm Anna Palmer.

And I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch.

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It's Thursday, July 8th,

2021. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, President

Joe Biden's changing position on Afghanistan. Number two, the latest on capital security with the

wall coming down. And number three, reporter David Drucker of the Washington Examiner is coming out with a new book on the future of the GOP.

All right, let's get into it.

The number one story, Jake.

Joe Biden is going to be making a big speech on Afghanistan.

It comes as obviously U.S. troops are pulling out of the country after a very

long and protracted war. The top of Puntwell News AM really examines his changing position, how he was

basically for the war before he was against it. Yeah. So, I mean, Brez and I, John Brezannan and I

were talking about this late last night.

And, you know, he makes the good point that, you know, Joe Biden in 2002, when he was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

was kind of reassuring the Afghani people and the American people and partners around the world

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