Weekly Roundup: August 27th

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🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

President Biden has warned there could be more violence coming over the weekend in Afghanistan. Yesterday's attack at Kabul's airport could be a preview of the disarray that could be in store for the country after the U.S. finally exits. And: it is still unclear where tens of thousands of evacuated Afghans will be allowed to resettle.

Also, voting rights activists will take to the streets across the country this weekend to pressure President Biden and congressional Democrats to take aggressive action on voting rights. The protests come as Republican-controlled state legislatures continue to pass measures that advocates say make it harder to vote.

This episode: White House correspondent Scott Detrow, White House correspondent Franco Ordoñez, national security correspondent Greg Myre, and politics and racial justice correspondent Juana Summers.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Taylor and I'm about to begin my first semester as one of the assistant news
0:04.8	directors of my college radio station. This podcast was recorded at.
0:09.5	Great job! It is 126 Eastern on Friday, August 27th.
0:14.6	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll still be counting the days until I
0:18.9	begin covering local and campus news. All right, here's the show.
0:22.9	I learned a very important lesson in one of my early shifts at the college radio station,
0:30.5	which was that you were not allowed to go to sleep in between your newscasts even if they're
0:34.3	on Sunday morning. You know, it's important life skills like that, professional skills like that
0:39.0	that you get at the college radio station. Love that. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast.
0:43.6	I'm Scott Detro. I cover the White House. I'm Frank Ordonia as I cover the White House also.
0:48.2	And we are joined again by Greg Myri. We've talked to him a few times this week. He
0:52.7	covers national security for NPR. Hey Greg. Hey Scott. So of course, evacuations continue
0:58.4	after the attack at Cobbles Airport that killed 13 Americans and more than 160 Afghans.
1:05.1	President Biden said yesterday that more than 100,000 people have now been air left from the
1:10.4	country. But but Franco, let's start with this. The White House is being very explicit that the
1:15.6	president is being warned that there is a high risk of more attacks in the coming days.
1:21.2	Yeah, you know, this is something that some of the national security team warned
1:25.3	the president and the vice president earlier today in national security briefings.
1:29.7	And it was also something that was, you know, talked about from General Mackenzie yesterday
1:34.1	talking about the likelihood of more attacks. You know, Biden, you know, expressed this same concern
1:40.0	yesterday. This was a big part of his desire to do a rapid pull out of Afghanistan.
1:45.9	Yeah. Um, it's every day that they are there. He says that US troops are in more danger.
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