people except for a figurehead attempted appointed by the taliban. the international auditor is the same. there has been no misappropriation of funds. it s an institution we have invested in and we can monitor people and send people over. but no one has picked up the taliban phone and call the taliban and said, this is what you need to do for us to send you money. we have not tried that. we have just decided that afghanistan does not deserve to have a central bank. we just want to confiscate their funds because we do not want to give it to them. yes, this really seems like an atrocious mistake and i hope that the biden administration is watching this and is feeling the pressure that we consider because it is horrible to contemplate what will happen out of this decision, masuda sultan, thank you so much for taking time tonight. thank you. that is all in for this week, the rachel maddow show starts
world, before the u.s. military withdrew when the taliban seize control last year. but now the economy is collapsing, over 1 million people have already fled to neighboring countries. 1 million people. and those remain, half a facings of your hunger this winter, according to the un. 8.7 million people are risk of starvation. and as we ve pointed out repeatedly, on this show, our government, us as americans, could help those people by simply doing one thing, unfreezing the billions of dollars of afghan government assets that are sitting in banks. the money was frozen by the u.s. government when the taliban seized power. by the belongs to the afghan people. today, president biden announced a strange sort of half plan. his administration wants to unfreeze seven billion dollars in afghan funds and put half the money, 3.5 billion, into a trust fund to aid afghanistan and it wants to make the other half available in combination to the victims of 9/11. masuda sultan is the author of the memoi
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