After 20 years, a trillion dollars spent training and equipping hundreds of thousands of Afghan national security and defense forces.

2,448 Americans killed, 20,722 more wounded, and untold thousands coming home with unseen trauma to their mental health.

I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome.

Is the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan now inevitable?

The Afghan troops have 300,000 well-equipped as well as equipped as any army in the world

and an Air Force against something like 75,000 Taliban. It is not inevitable.

President Biden forcefully defending his decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

But as the Taliban continues to gain ground, the question is how long before the U.S. has to re-engage?

Plus, another warning from the White House, as the Delta variant leads to an increase in COVID

cases.

The question is, could a vaccine that specifically targets this more contagious strain

soon beyond the way?

And history at the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The question is, can you spell the word Marie A? Definitely way too early for this.

Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that fingers crossed, always spell checks.

I am Casey Hunt on this Friday, July 9th. We made it and we'll start with the news.

With the Delta variant surging across the country, Biden administration officials are offering another warning to Americans who still aren't vaccinated against coronavirus.

The seven-day average of COVID-19 cases in the U.S. has gone up by about 11%

since last week, particularly the rates remain low. We are starting to see some new and concerning

trends. Simply put, in areas of low vaccination coverage, cases and hospitalizations are up.

Further, we are seeing some small clusters and larger outbreaks of COVID-19 in locations such as

camps and community events where proper hard-learned prevention strategies are not enforced

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