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The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

The Story of Biden's Disastrous Exit From Afghanistan

The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour

Hillsdale College

Education

4.8650 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Guests: Adam Carrington, Jerry Dunleavy, James Hasson, & Kelly Franklin

Host Scot Bertram talks with Adam Carrington, associate professor of politics and William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College, on the repercussions of Sackett v. EPA. Jerry Dunleavy and James Hasson discuss President Biden’s disastrous exit from Afghanistan and their book Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End. And Kelly Scott Franklin, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, returns for another edition of “Great Moments in the Great Books,” this time focusing on the chapter “The Sphynx” in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

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0:00.0

From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

0:25.5

It ended in the disaster that we saw at Kabul Airport.

0:29.1

Hundreds of Americans left behind, well over a thousand Americans left behind, tens of thousands of Afghan allies left behind,

0:35.7

and 13 Americans killed and dozen wounded in that devastating

0:40.9

ISIS-Terrorist attack.

0:42.3

This is your host Scott Bertram.

0:44.7

And that's Jerry Dunlevy, co-author of the new book, Kabul, the untold story of Biden's

0:49.8

fiasco and the American Warriors who fought to the end.

0:53.3

We'll talk with Jerry and his co-author

0:55.1

James Hassan a little later on in today's program for an in-depth interview on the book.

1:00.2

First, we're joined by Dr. Adam Carrington, Associate Professor of Politics and William and

1:05.1

Patricia Lamoth chair in the U.S. Constitution at Hillsdale College. Dr. Carrington, thanks

1:10.7

for joining us. Good to be here. Thanks for

1:12.8

having me again. Continuing our conversations on the U.S. Supreme Court's most recent term and some of

1:18.7

the decisions handed down during that time. This one not near the end of the term, but a little bit earlier,

1:24.2

Sackett v. EPA. And this concerns one of my favorite terms because it has been

1:29.9

discussed nearly nonstop the past decade or so. We know about flotus and we know about SCOTUS,

1:35.9

but WOTUS, Waters of the United States. Where has the controversy come in in the interpretation

1:43.5

of this term waters of the United States?

1:46.4

It comes from the Clean Water Act, which is one of the major environmental policies of the last 50 plus years.

1:55.4

And it gives the national government and particularly the EPA regulatory power over what are

2:04.8

considered waters of the United States. So then one must ask when one sees a particular body of

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