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2:45 PM ET, August 19, 2021

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ABC News:
Full transcript of ABC News' George Stephanopoulos' interview with President Joe Biden  —  Stephanopoulos spoke to Biden in an exclusive interview Wednesday.  —  Read the full transcript of President Joe Biden's exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday.
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Reuters:
Planes, guns, night-vision goggles: The Taliban's new U.S.-made war chest  —  About a month ago, Afghanistan's ministry of defense posted on social media photographs of seven brand new helicopters arriving in Kabul delivered by the United States.  —  “They'll continue to see a steady drumbeat …
Discussion: The Daily Caller and CNBC
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Something Is Wrong with the President  —  What's Going On with President Biden?  —  After making no public appearances for four days — during a major foreign crisis — President Biden read a 20-minute speech off a teleprompter on Monday afternoon and took no questions.  He immediately returned to Camp David.
Ben Riley-Smith / Telegraph:
Parliament holds Joe Biden in contempt over Afghanistan  —  MPs and peers unite to condemn ‘dishonour’ of US president's withdrawal and his criticism of Afghan troops left behind to face Taliban  —  Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal was condemned as “catastrophic” and …
New York Times:
Afghanistan Live Updates: Protests Spread to Kabul as Taliban Struggle to Govern  —  The day after protests in two cities were met with violence, rallies broke out in Kabul and at least one other city.  A troubled evacuation from Kabul slowly gathered pace as Afghans and others arrived in Europe, the Persian Gulf and elsewhere.
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Christianists Versus Christianity  —  Plus: What Joe gets wrong  —  Say, it ain't so, Joe.  —  The president had a chance to extend and revise his remarks from earlier this week, but this is what we got: … It's.  Not.  Good.  And I say this as someone who supported, touted, and embraced Biden's candidacy.
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg:
Afghanistan News Should Come With Warning Labels Attached  —  Confusion, spin, hype, finger-pointing and the challenges of reporting from a dangerous war zone make it hard to sort fact from fiction.  The truth will emerge, but slowly.  —  Two quick points about why you should be more careful …
Associated Press:
Afghanistan war unpopular amid chaotic pullout: AP-NORC poll
Washington Post:
Afghanistan to be ruled under sharia law, Taliban commander says
AP-NORC:
Most Americans say the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were not worth fighting
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
The Media Is Helping Hawks Win the War Over Biden's Withdrawal
Tori Richards / Washington Examiner:
EXCLUSIVE: DOD knew as early as 2005 that Afghan military was weak, former general says
Discussion: Yahoo News and RedState
Patrick Tucker / Defense One:
Trump's Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says
Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Afghanistan + immigration politics = A divided GOP
Politico:
Police brace for lengthy standoff on Capitol Hill amid active bomb threat  —  Capitol Police and other law enforcement officials are investigating a claim of an explosive device in a pickup truck that drove onto the sidewalk of the Library of Congress, leading to the evacuation of several congressional office buildings.
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Associated Press:
Police probing report of explosive in truck near Capitol
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker / wicker.senate.gov:
Wicker Office Statement on COVID-19 Diagnosis  —  WASHINGTON - The Office of Senator Roger F. Wicker Communications Director Phillip Waller today issued a statement after Senator Roger F. Wicker tested positive for COVID-19:  —  “Senator Wicker tested positive this morning for the COVID-19 virus …
Timothy Bella / Washington Post:
An Alabama doctor watched patients reject the coronavirus vaccine.  Now he's refusing to treat them.  —  In Alabama, where the nation's lowest vaccination rate has helped push the state closer to a record number of hospitalizations, a physician has sent a clear message to his patients …
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Herd Immunity Herp Derp  —  The pandemic's wrongest theory.  —  A lot of people, including many experts, made blunders when assessing the best ways to combat the novel coronavirus that emerged from Wuhan in late 2019.  For a while people were sanitizing their grocery bags.  Mask guidance was all over the map.
Discussion: Raw Story
Devyani Chhetri / Greenville News:
Greenville County GOP leader Pressley Stutts dies from COVID-19  —  Greenville County Republican Party leader Pressley Stutts died Thursday morning after battling COVID-19 for nearly a month.  —  Stutts death was confirmed by Dan Harvell, who represents the Anderson County Republican Party …
Discussion: Raw Story
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Parents pull kids from schools as district bucks CDC guidance and board member spreads misinformation  —  County board meeting erupts during school mask debate  —  (CNN)It's the third week of school in Cobb County, Georgia, and many parents are livid with what they perceive …
Rachel Metz / CNN:
Facebook wants you to hold your next meeting in VR  —  (CNN Business)For those who don't think Zoom meetings are a good enough substitute for the real thing, Facebook has another idea: a virtual reality app that lets you and your coworkers feel like you're sitting around a table in a conference room.
Stuart Taylor Jr / RealClearInvestigations:
Guided by Faith, Divinity Student Fought His ‘Antiracist’ Princeton Seminary — and Won  —  Timothy Keiderling's decision to enroll in the Princeton Theological Seminary reflected his commitment “to give my life to work for justice and to live out the values of the Kingdom of God.”
Discussion: Real Clear Politics
Caitlin Flanagan / The Atlantic:
The Week the Left Stopped Caring About Human Rights  —  Back in April, The Nation magazine told readers that the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan would be “a welcome and long-overdue action.”  The essay, by a scholar named Phyllis Bennis, sounded upbeat, even salubrious.
Tom Nichols / USA Today:
Trump is not ruining democracy, we are.  And it's been anguishing to confront  —  I was worried long before Trump and the Capitol riot, as political jousting turned zealous and well-off friends called America a disastrous mess.  —  I've written about a lot of unpleasant, even frightening, subjects.
Discussion: Raw Story
Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
‘This is warfare:’ Trump allies Flynn, Bannon pushed conspiracies at ritzy party backed by Chinese exile  — Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Lindell and Mike Flynn pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories at an event advertised as a celebration of an anti-China movement.
Discussion: Raw Story
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
No, Republican Governors Are Not ‘Banning Masks in Classrooms’  —  n a piece titled “The Biden administration will use a federal civil rights office to deter states from banning masks in classrooms,” the New York Times reports that:
Dan Goldberg / Politico:
GOP governors embrace Covid cocktails over masks as cases surge  —  Republican governors in some of the states hardest hit by the pandemic are pushing expensive Covid cocktails over cheap masks.  —  The governors in Florida, Missouri and Texas are promising millions of dollars in antibody treatments …
Discussion: HotAir, al.com, Politico and New York Times
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Where are the anti-war voices?  —  Judd Legum, Tesnim Zekeria, and Rebecca Crosby  —  Yesterday's newsletter detailed how the media is largely overlooking voices that supported Biden's decision to withdraw from Afghanistan.  Instead media reports are almost exclusively highlighting criticism …
Discussion: FOX 13 Tampa Bay, Unfogged and Townhall
 
 
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Collin Binkley / Associated Press:
US to erase student debt for those with severe disabilities
Discussion: CBS News and Wall Street Journal
Keith Kellogg / MSN:
The Lesson of Afghanistan: Our Military Must Remain Focused on Its Mission
STAT:
To vaccinate more Americans, lean into outbreaks
Ben Montgomery / Axios:
Florida's biggest school districts vote to defy DeSantis on masks
Discussion: TheBlaze
USA Today:
Fred still causing trouble across US: 35 missing after severe flooding in North Carolina, tornado warnings issued in New York
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin and Sinema advising House centrists
Discussion: The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Kushner friend Ken Kurson charged in N.Y. eavesdropping case after Trump pardon
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Fox News mandates employees disclose vaccination status, contradicting rhetoric from top stars
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Ron Johnson is a crook
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