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A rarity in our industry and, yeah, it really got to me. well, i can understand why. jack, just before we finish this discussion, you gave this, as i said, very blunt speech that demanded the industrys attention. i wonder what the reaction was from the big guns within the industry when they heard that message from you? very, very good. very, very positive. i mean, the commitments from the bbc and netflix to making disabled shows was huge. channel 4 made a similar commitment. sky is building on m...

Representation, and all the broadcasters made commitments. they havent been hugely successful. with disability, its, kind of, three—dimensional. theres on—screen, behind the screen, and then what is the screen doing? so i watch corrie, and im impressed that izzys storyline is not necessarily based on disability. she has other storylines as well. when i watch life by mike bartlett on the bbc, there was a character, melissa johns was playing a mainstream character. the fact that she was disabl...

[boos] >> youre a -- for what you did to afghanistan. terrible. terrible. >> sean: weak, feeble, cognitive mass. notice that joe is walking in with bill clinton and barack obama in order to look more credible. this weak and pathetic as he really is. but it really doesnt matter, does it? because everyone on earth, all of our enemies, all of our allies, everyone knows, very few people have the courage to just say i, joe biden is completely and totally inept and out of it. they know his clueless se...

Our allies to take sharper messures against the taliban. >> simply put the nature of the relationship that the taliban would have with us or most other countries around the world will depend entirely on its conduct and actions. specifically with regard to freedom of travel, as well as to making good on its counter-terrorism commitments, upholding basic rights of afghan people, not engaging in reprisals, et cetera. these are the things that not only we but countries around the world are looking a...

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The interior, who is a wanted terrorist, based on your administrations assessment. do you believe that that is an indication that they are going to fight back against terrorists? the question, senator, for our perspective and our partners perspective is whether the taliban will make good on commitments to make sure afghanistan is not used as a place for outwardly directed terrorist attacks. and theyve made commitments, but were not relying on those commitments. we want to make sure we have in pl...

Counterterrorism and respect the basic rights of women and girls just like last week he was lecturing them on wokeness and inclusivity. how dumb is this man? take a look. >> we expect them to ensure freedom of travel, to make good on his commitments on counterterrorism. to uphold the basic rights of the afghan people including women, girls, and minorities. to name a broadly representative permanent government -- -- >> sean: where is mike pompeo where we need him? he is so totally and completely ...

On your administrations assessment, do you believe that that is an indication that they are going to fight back against terrorists? >> the question, senator, from our perspective and our partners perspective is whether the taliban will make good on the promise that afghanistan is not used as a place for outwardly directed terrorist attacks. theyve made commitments, but were not relying on those. were going to make sure we have in place the ability to detect that. something we can talk about in m...

Could you pledge today without equivocation that the biden administration will not release any of that money to the taliban. >> absent the taliban making good on the commitments and expectations of the international community that ive outlined previously. thats correct. >> maybe we could deduct a fee for the weapons they took. >> any thoughts on that or anything else. >> 64 million is part of the 1.2 billion we promised for international aid. turns out 18 million afgans depend on the government ...

Were on the ground in bagram air base, that they would have been able to hold the line and get those americans out in time in the contention was from the secretary of state today that they would have had to inflow a lot of other troops to protect from an aggressive taliban that was on the move. >> well, it goes back further than that, bret. one of these things that is always overlooked is the fact that how you message and how you communicate with the enemy is really important. in the last admini...