“The Media’s Afghanistan Amnesia.”

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🗓️ 24 August 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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NPR’s Sam Sanders joins Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor to talk about the political fallout and lessons (not) learned from Afghanistan, Democratic anxiety over the midterms, and the increasing radicalism of the Republican base. Then, Jon quizzes Tommy and Sam on their knowledge of California’s wild list of gubernatorial candidates in a game called “Do You Recall?”

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pots of America.
0:21.4	I'm John Favreau.
0:22.4	I'm Tom H.P.
0:23.4	And back again with us today while love it's on vacation is the host of NPR's It's been
0:27.9	a minute.
0:28.9	Sam Sanders.
0:29.9	Thank you for having me.
0:30.9	I got to say this is my first time in a studio since last March.
0:35.4	I've been doing my job from home for over a year.
0:38.5	So all of this is strange.
0:39.9	We are honored to have you.
0:40.9	Yeah, this is great.
0:41.9	Last time we had you, you were so far.
0:43.8	Yeah, yeah.
0:44.8	It feels like it's going to be so smooth because I think we've all gotten used to in the
0:49.4	last year doing the whole like, no, you first, oh, you first zoom thing.
0:54.1	And this might not be that.
0:55.5	No, this is, this is a little bit easier.
0:57.6	Yeah.
0:58.6	Today's show, President Biden tout's progress on Afghan evacuations as he takes political
1:02.9	hits back home.
1:04.4	Republican politicians are catering to a base that's getting more extreme by the day.
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