The Timeline For Evacuating Afghanistan

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The first U.S. troops started leaving Afghanistan, yesterday, as President Biden decided not to extend the timeline for U.S. withdrawal past the original August 31st deadline. The Taliban said yesterday that they would no longer allow Afghans to evacuate, which is a major departure from their previous position. Full vaccine approval for children younger than 12 might not come until the end of the year, according to some experts, but emergency use authorization could happen faster. We discuss what's holding up the process, plus the timeline for FDA approval of non-Pfizer vaccines. And in headlines: the House passes the infrastructure bill and spending bill, violent beach cows in Corsica, and Lil Nas X's new job at Taco Bell. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It is Wednesday, August 25th. I'm Gideon Ressick.
0:09.0	And I'm Priyanka Eribindi, and this is what a day. The podcast that occurs is an auditory
0:13.4	hallucination when you fall on your head doing a milk crate challenge.
0:17.0	Uh, yeah. Okay. Let me be clear. I have no idea what that is. And I don't want to learn
0:20.3	about it.
0:21.3	You know, it's better to learn about it now before you face land off of milk crate
0:24.3	stairs.
0:25.3	That would truly damage me in more ways than what. On today's show, the possible timeline
0:36.9	to get COVID vaccines approved for young children, plus Congress advanced the $3.5 trillion budget
0:42.2	blueprint and the John Lewis voting rights act.
0:45.0	But first, we have new news out of Afghanistan. The first US troops started leaving Afghanistan
0:50.2	yesterday as President Biden decided not to extend the timeline for US withdrawal past
0:55.4	the original August 31st deadline. Earlier this week, it was reported that he was considering
0:59.9	an extension past that date, but the Taliban warned that there would be quote consequences
1:04.4	if the US stayed any longer. In an emergency G7 meeting yesterday, Biden said that that
1:09.6	threat was one of the key reasons he was sticking to the 31st as the last day.
1:13.8	Okay. Got it. And I guess the question right now, right, is, are we going to be
1:20.2	able to evacuate everyone by that time?
1:22.2	Yeah, great question. So yesterday, we got some updated information as of August 14th,
1:28.0	nearly 71,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan, including 4,000 Americans.
1:34.0	As we go to record this on Tuesday night, we don't have the exact number of Americans
1:37.4	who are still on the ground. But Biden said that Secretary of State Tony Blinken will
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