My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.

Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected President of the United States.

It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.

We will be back in some form.

We are still deeply divided.

Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?

Absolutely.

Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?

Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,

dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this

fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be

the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power

of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. Hello and welcome to another

episode of an Irish man in America with me, Jarlethar Egan., of course, our US correspondent, Marion McKeown.

Well, in case you've been living under Iraq, you'll know that the Taliban have seized power

in Afghanistan two weeks before the US was set to complete its troop withdrawal. After a very

expensive two-decade war, insurgents stormed across the country, capturing all

the major cities in a matter of days, as Afghan security forces trained and equipped by the US

and its allies melted away. But what exactly is happening in Afghanistan and what does it

mean for the future? And more importantly,

could we have predicted this from the history of the situation? Well, who better to explain

exactly what's going on than Marian McKeown? Marion, it's been pretty traumatic to watch.

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