his sandy's invoice for afghanistan made taliban representatives joining us eas, julie norman lecturer at university college, london. she specializes in u. s. foreign policy. thanks for joining us. julie. what's your take on these latest negotiations enjoy? ha, it appears the taliban has the upper hand. well, it certainly does. and what the u. s. is hoping to do really over these next 3 days is to have some meetings 1st with the taliban delegation that's based in doha, as well as bringing and other international actors along with the u. s. there's also representatives from the cage, from the you, from china, from russia, from pakistan, from, with pakistan. and all these actors really focusing on 2 main goals. first to try and put some kinds of breaks on the rapidly deteriorating situation that we see. and that's gonna, samantha moment and secondly to try and get things back on track for negotiations between the taliban and african government. the u. s. is showing no signs of actually stepping up its attack. so do you think that's likely to change? right, so the us still planning to com

julie norman, university college london political science professor there.es to what we see this morning, a g-7 meeting. everything will be managed. the president will speak. it will be managed. are any of the images we are seeing managed, including reports this morning of massive agony in cutter -- in qatar, with the heat as migrants with their? lisa: to me, how does the u.s. get some unity among the allies when there is so much little faith between them, and a lack of trust that has been breached over the past four years, five years, six years between the united states and allies. i am curious to see how g-7 unfolds on that. tom: within history, i just don't think dwight eisenhower was managing the message at the end of world war ii. kailey: to lisa's point, it is a question now of america's standing in the world. is it going to continue to be this global hegemon, the ones that looked to be interfering another country's affairs. are we going to go back to a policy of american restraint? tom: on radio, i am holding up a copy of "foreign affairs: who won the

but julie norman is lecture at the university college london, specializing in u. s. foreign policy. she says there's been no meaningful movement on the talks. what the us is hoping to do really over these next 3 days, is to have some meetings. first with the taliban delegation that's based in doha, as well as bringing in other international actors along with the u. s. there's also representatives from the u. k, from the you, from china, from russia, from pakistan, from, with pakistan. and all these actors really focusing on 2 main goals 1st to try and put some kind of breaks on the rapidly deteriorating situation that we see an african samantha moment. and secondly, to try and get things back on track for negotiations between the taliban and african government with the u. s. is really looking to do right now is the hand over most of the operation to the africa and forces and trust the training that they've provided to them. but so far that hasn't really held, and the african forces for the most part have been overrun or have surrendered to the taliban. and most of the cities and pro

what we're joined now by julie norman. she's a lecturer in politics and international relations at the university college in london where she has, or such interest in preventing encountering violent extremism. josie via skype from london. mister ben, thanks very much for joining us on al jazeera. let's just go back a week or so perhaps 2 weeks with so many prisoners released from african prisons by the taliban in a sort of sweeping takeover of the country. one wonders whether they may have acted in haste and now have an ice full problem to deal with in the coming days. well, that is certainly a possibility. and in fact, i saw or islamic state has been acted in afghan at stan for over 5 years. now. they are considered arrival of the taliban that you have essentially been at war with initial battles in 2015 and again and 2017. so what we can expect is that as mom is state, will be trying to take advantage of what's essentially a security vacuum right now. there will be trying to take advantage of the taliban needing to move

thank you julie norman from ucl london for being on yesterday. we will go to washington on that in a bit. right now, we start strong with julia coronado. her calls coming out of the financial crisis were absolutely extraordinary. she was way out front on the glide path of gdp to an underperformance in 2008 and 2009. thank you so much for joining us. let's do gdp before we do powell. do we underestimate the glide path to a lower level on this boom economy? are we setting ourselves up for a shock of lower potential gdp and growth? julia: i think that we still have reasons for optimism. the fiscal developments were just discussing suggest fiscal policy, even though a 10 year infrastructure package is fundamentally different from a gigantic cash stimulus, it is still a tailwind for growth, and one that will be supported for a long time. that is a direct contrast to the years after the great recession when fiscal policy went from supportive to restrictive very quickly and stayed restrictive for years. that was a headwind the fed had to battle in terms

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the july report met expectations although biden's jobs deficit still remains high and businesses are still struggling to find workers. a few more tweets from republican members. ralph normanesterday, good news on the jobs front with that 943,000 added. we should credit the governors who ended the state federal employment bonus. barry loudermilk quoting the numbers of the 4% average of unemployment rate in the states that ended the subsidy versus the 5.8% for the state that continued the subsidy. one more from republicans, senator roy blunt saying, americans are already getting hit in their wallets because of inflation. democrats will only make this worse for taxpayers. taking your phone calls this morning asking you if you are seeing an economic recovery in your part of the country. we will start on the flowing phone line for employers. ed is in georgia. what kind of business do you run? caller: i am not running a business but i hire people to renovate my home. host: did you put off renovations during the pandemic? caller: i could not get anybody. what bothers me is the amount of jobs that were created last month. i don't know why biden or pelosi should take any credit. i