Two Years Since US Withdrawal From Afghanistan: Recounting "Regret" & "Inevitable Chaos"

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🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Wednesday marks two years since the end of the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which resulted in the deaths of thirteen U.S. service members. Their deaths at the hands of a suicide bomber at Abbey Gate in Kabul marked a tragic end to the nation’s largest evacuation effort in U.S. history, officially ending two decades of war. Since then, the Biden administration has faced questions of accountability surrounding the withdrawal, with the Gold Star families of those service members who lost their lives speaking to lawmakers earlier this month. FOX's Chief National Security Correspondent, Jennifer Griffin, joins the Rundown to evaluate what went wrong and what military officials plan to do moving forward. The Biden administration unveiled on Tuesday the first 10 drugs they will set for Medicare price negotiations. In Washington, lowering the price of prescription drugs everyday people depend on to survive has been a priority. However, the White House’s plan is not without its critics. So how will this actually impact Americans’ wallets and medicine cabinets? Deputy Assistant to the President for Health and Veterans Affairs Christen Linke Young joins the podcast to break down the administration’s plan to lower drug prices, how the pharmaceutical industry’s development of new drugs could be negatively impacted, and when Medicare users will really see these prices drop. Plus, commentary by Fox News Medical Contributor and author of "Panic Attack," Dr. Nicole Saphier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Kennedy. I'm Bill Hemmer. I'm Sandra Smith and this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.3	Wednesday, August 30th, 2023, I'm Chris Foster. The two-year anniversary of the withdrawal
0:13.0	from Afghanistan. But President Biden took the decision it will be one of the most consequential
0:17.5	decisions of his presidency and it set in motion many other events. The history hasn't been written
0:24.5	yet. I'm Jared Halpern. President Biden claims victory against major drug makers. The
0:30.5	administration lists prescriptions seniors will soon pay less for. When Americans pay two to
0:36.5	three times more than other countries for the exact same drug, when the Department of Veterans
0:41.3	Affairs achieves prices that are about 50 percent lower than Medicare by negotiating, those are
0:47.5	all signs that it's completely appropriate for Medicare to come to the table and get a better deal.
0:52.5	And I'm Dr. Nicole Sapphire. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:00.9	Less than a month after the attacks on America, September 11th, 2001, President George W. Bush
1:05.8	announced military strikes. On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes
1:11.5	against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in
1:16.9	Afghanistan. I'm just short of 20 years later, after the death of more than 24 hundred American
1:21.5	troops, more American contractors than that, and more than 100,000 Afghan fighters, soldiers,
1:26.2	police officers, and civilians, American troops were leaving. 13 of them, not soon enough,
1:31.4	killed in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport along with 170 Afghan civilians.
1:35.5	They're part of a great noble company of American heroes. President Biden, his administration
1:40.4	still faced unanswered questions about that attack in the minds of many. It happened during a
1:44.0	chaotic evacuation, ending two years ago tonight, August 30th, 2021. It's back in February 2020
1:50.2	that an agreement was signed with the Taliban for American troops to leave if conditions were met.
1:54.1	President Trump, even as late as December, was telling the military here in the Pentagon
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