The Race for City Council. In Boston, the race for City Councilors-At-Large is heating up as we inch closer to the September 14th preliminary election. Two of the candidates for Councilors-At-Large, Alex Gray and Said Abdikarim, join Dan separately to discuss their unique perspectives on the city's pressing issues. Some topics include the indoor mask mandate that Acting Mayor Kim Janey announced today and Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's state employee vaccination mandate, labeled the strictest in the country.
Call Sign Extortion 17. Former U.S. Navy JAG officer and former Special Assistant United States Attorney Don Brown joins Dan to discuss the story of a downed U.S. military helicopter with the call sign "Extortion 17." The entire crew was killed including the Air National guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and seventeen members of Navy SEAL Team Six, from the same Team that had killed Osama Bin Laden just 3 months before, when Taliban forces hit the aircraft with a rocket. Brown calls into question the official military explanation of the incident and alleges either gross incompetence or a massive cover-up.
The President Says… This afternoon President Biden held his second press conference since the downfall of Afghanistan. Mr. President assured the American people that the U.S. is working with NATO to bring people to safety and help evacuate any U.S. citizen that wants to get home. Biden went on to say that they have made it clear to the Taliban that any attack on these efforts will be met with swift force. Dan takes your calls on the latest updates about Afghanistan.
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