4AM rough notes 08162021 1

(msnbc) delta, vaccine, reisnation of cuomo, will be better when women run the gov, cuomo can't win dem primary, not 1 on 1 he can't

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Afghan President Asharf Ghani flees, didn't resign, blames army not willing to fight and erroding support, Ghani History - became president 2014, his vote was contested, fraud, US brookered a power sharing deal where Ghani would be President. He called for 'calm' in the end. He also said, "those people that are making noise about rioting looting and killing people, we will deal with them with full forice." Some People say he abonded his country to a dire future.

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Chrisiane Amanpour was reporting about Afghanistain 2001. She reported men's beard was cut, Kabul liberation from taliban forces, playing music, women coming out to work which was banned by Taliban. Period of 'normality'. NOW Amanpour wonders how Afghanistain falls when the army is reportedly larger. 'fake numbers on paper' she says taliban have been working on this for the last 20 years, many fingers of blame, afghan got taken over because there was no deterrant, no air power, fake peace process first under Trump that produced nothing. Other reasons include Taliban lying, no plan B from US, and wishful thinking. 'terrible evacuation' 'saigon moment'

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Blinken sec of state dept, taliban won't repeat harboring terrorist, wishful thinking, 20 years after 911, scare folks, isis inspired acolytes to attack on the West, blinken says we are maintaining vigilance, deal w it effectively and in real time, we are moving people from embassy to airport. Border departure, April. American diplomates at airport. Americans are mad saying 'why were we even there, why did my friend get blown up?' Blinken says we did what we went to do, we got the people that did 911, Osama, protected us from alquida. We met objectives so take pride, we are safer than before 911. The group that attacked us dramatically deminished. 20 years, 1 trillion dollars, 2300 Americans lost their lives, massive investment, biden concluded it was time to end this war, we been there longer than British and Russians, our competitors want us bogged down in Afghanistan for another 20 years. Coming up: Growing covid crises battle over whether children should wear masks

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(MSNBC) 'We invested. The International community invested over 20 years, billions of dollars in these forces, 300,000 of them, with an air force, something taliban didn't have, with modern sophisticated equipment. They have not been able to defend the country' - Blinken

'What was it all for' - headline. Major earthquake hits Haiti, 1200 ppl dead, search for survivors

'What is scope of the disaster?' - headline. Delta varient cases surge, US 200,000 new cases per day

'How do hospitals keep up?' - headline