The Taliban Takes Kabul

What A Day

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🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Taliban seized Afghanistan with a takeover of its capital Kabul this past weekend, leading the country’s President Ashraf Ghani and U.S. personnel to flee. Afghan civilians also attempted to leave the country, which led to chaos at the airport in Kabul. We talked about what led to the swift takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban forces with Laurel Miller, director of the International Crisis Group’s Asia Program. Between 2013 and 2017, Miller was the deputy and then-acting Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the U.S. State Department. And Josie Duffy Rice joins as WAD co-host. In headlines: recovery efforts in Haiti after a 7.2 magnitude quake, Canadians face a snap election, and a trio of volcanoes erupt in Alaska. Show Notes: Twitter: Laurel Miller – https://twitter.com/LaurelMillerICG For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Monday, August 16th. I'm Gideon Ressing.
0:08.0	And I'm Josie Duffy-Rice, and this is what a day where we would never conclude our
0:12.7	month's long search to replace Alex Trebek by choosing an executive producer to host
0:17.7	the podcast.
0:18.7	Josie, I have some bad news. I am an executive producer of this podcast.
0:22.6	Well, there you have it folks. Hollywood, Nepotism, strikes again, and now we have to
0:27.1	replace Gideon with LeBar Burton.
0:30.1	All right. So before we get rolling today, I wanted to give a huge, wide squad welcome
0:35.0	to our newest co-host, Josie Duffy-Rice, Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam. She is formerly the president
0:39.8	of the news outlet, The Appeal, host of the podcast, Justice in America. You have seen
0:44.1	her work. If you haven't, where have you been? You've been sorely missing out. She's
0:48.3	also a writer and a lawyer who does not practice a lot. She's working on her first book. So
0:52.7	tons of tons of stuff. You've heard her as a guest on here before bringing her expertise
0:56.6	on criminal justice in so much more Josie. I cannot be more thrilled that you are joining
1:00.0	us. Welcome.
1:01.0	Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah. It's going to be an absolute blast.
1:05.4	So on today's show, the Razer Phone gets a reboot plus Hades recovery effort after a 7.2
1:12.0	magnitude earthquake robbed the country this past weekend.
1:15.5	But first we're going to bring you the latest out of Afghanistan.
1:18.1	We're just going to bring you these live and exclusive pictures here from inside the
1:24.7	presidential palace. What you are looking at right now is Taliban fighters inside the
1:33.9	presidential palace. Yes, so that was an Alps Zero broadcast yesterday as Taliban fighters
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