U.S. Racing to Evacuate Thousands Out of Afghanistan

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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First, Chris discusses the race to evacuate thousands out of Afghanistan with Former National Security and & Counterterrorism Coordinator Richard Clarke. Then, Chris goes one-on-one with an interpreter who worked for the U.S. Military in Afghanistan. Chris wraps up the show with Harry Enten on the impact of the Delta variant. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Scoop, I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:03.1	To all those in power, raising concerns
0:06.1	that America failed in Afghanistan, focus on this.
0:12.1	If you are worried about failure, don't just spend time
0:16.2	debating Trump and the Taliban or Biden
0:19.1	botching the exit, debate how to get Americans out
0:24.2	of Afghanistan.
0:26.1	The politics of our presence have always
0:29.5	been deceptive and messy.
0:32.1	The exit is, too.
0:34.1	Here's the reality.
0:35.5	Trump made a rash deal with the Taliban
0:38.0	to leave by May 1 of this year.
0:40.5	Biden agreed and had it go bad on his watch.
0:45.2	Here is how the current president explains the state of play.
0:51.0	That it would have taken a significant American true presence,
0:55.1	multiple times greater than what President Biden was
0:58.2	handed to stop a Taliban onslaught.
1:00.9	But the Afghan government and its supporters,
1:04.1	including many of the people now seeking to leave,
1:06.5	made a passionate case that we should not conduct a mass
1:09.6	evacuation, lest we trigger a loss of confidence
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