and you congressional class will be sworn in republicans will officially take back control of the health of representatives. let us pause and reflect on that for a moment. less than two years after i violent stormed the capitol in attempt to stop biden from becoming president. we ll be back in control of the lower chamber of commerce. many of the republicans returning to congress or joining it for the first time this week supported the big lie that led to that armed insurrection. granted, republicans only have a slim majority in the house. the roadways that some folks initially warned about never actually happened. but it is remarkable that it barely took one election cycle for the gop to regain power at the seat of our government. in the lead up to this year s election, republicans fixing high gas prices and inflation in the influx of microsoft. they grabbed but all of that for months. and offered real solutions for those, an obvious effort to rile up the base and put de
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money, separate to the whole a debate. so i personally believe that if the american government, the administration wanted to do more, they could do more. but the key word here is wanted to do more. from my experience in talking to different members within the government, and the government message they sent me is that they basically have wiped their hands. this is no longer their problem, they have said, many times, too many people. and unfortunately if, they wanted to do something they could, but the sentiment seems to be is that the want is not there. and they want to be rid of this problem as, you know, many of people here in this problem might think, okay it is not our problem anymore. but really it is our problem. we created what is afghanistan today. it is very much our problem, which is why we continue to cover the story. thank you, atia abawi for joining us today, happy new year to you and your family. thank, you and happy new year.
took control. since returning to power, their crackdown has been brutal. just this past month the taliban banned girls from attending school after sixth grade, and from universities. they barred women from working in ngos, and most jobs outside of the home. they forced women to cover their faces in public and instructed them to only leave their homes in cases of necessity. this cruel effort to deny women and girls any agency over their lives has resulted in protests by some extremely brave women and their few male supporters in afghanistan. i am joined now by the author of the secrets guy and former nbc news correspondent, atia abawi, thank you so much for coming on the show. happy new year to you and your family, a téa, we have seen those extraordinary pictures of women protesting. what risks do women and men face when they publicly protest the taliban? well, thank you for having me on and happy new year to you as well. the risks they face are
it is always the afghan people who suffer, the people on the ground. it is never the people who have the influence, who will be fine, and they re heated mansions in kabul in kandahar, with the fire is blazing in their home and food to eat. but it will be the poor afghans who are already suffering that will continue to suffer. atia, we have spoken about this in terms of what the biden ministration would be doing and before these aid groups kind of suspended their work because of the misogyny towards their employees, even before all of that, there was a big debate raging here in the u.s. across 2022 about what the biden administration should or should be doing, that this issue of afghan assets, central buying assets that were frozen by the u.s.. that the biden administration said should go in part to the families of 9/11 victims, even though they were afghans on the planes at 9/11, what do you make of what the u.s. government could be doing in terms of afghan assets, afghan