With thousands of Afghan refugees heading to the United States, what happens once they get here? Who helps acclimate them to life in America? How do they find jobs? Where do they live? Cathryn Miller-Wilson is the executive director of an organization called HIAS Pennsylvania. Her work is to help transition refugees to life in the US. We talk to her about what to expect with the influx of new Afghani citizens coming to our country.

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Millard House is the Superintendent of the Houston (TX) Independent School District. He was faced with a tough call last week - go along with Governor Greg Abbott's executive order forbidding mask mandates in schools, or defy it. He chose the later. He talks to us about that decision.

We also have an interesting chat with a man named Will Bardenwerper. He's spent time on the front lines for the U.S. Army. He's also worked at the Pentagon where he focused on defense strategy. He has some strong opinions about the United States' exit from Afghanistan, but mostly about the people you've been seeing on television criticizing it. We'll discuss it all with him.

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We continue talking about the situation in Afghanistan as the Associated Press' news director in the Gulf and Iran, Jon Gambrell joins us from Dubai. Before that, national correspondent Clayton Neville talks to us about the Dallas school board going against Texas Governor Greg Abbott's executive order forbidding schools from mandating masks for students.

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Afghanistan is our focus today as we talk with Dan Lamothe of the Washington Post who has been reporting on the happenings there for years. We'll also chat with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann and ask him whether this was a failure in intelligence or a failure to plan properly.

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Aki Ito of Insider.com joins us to talk about her report on businesses having trouble implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates because of the number of open jobs there are out there. Also, we talk with former CIA operative Michael Baker about how quickly the Taliban has taken over in Afghanistan.

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Greg McBride of BankRate.com digs into the latest inflation numbers, and Anna Fusco, head of the Broward County (FL) Teachers Union joins us to talk masks in classrooms.

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Brady Dennis of the Washington Post joins us to go over the UN's latest climate report. We also welcome Shannon Young of Politico to the program to talk about the surprise resignation of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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National Correspondent Clayton Neville joins us to talk about the Pentagon requiring all active duty military to have the COVID-19 vaccine. We'll also talk privacy as Apple plans on scanning users' iPhones for harmful content. The Electronic Frontier Foundation thinks this is a slippery slope. We'll talk to Corynne McSherry, a representative of that organization about their concerns.

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Ken Rogulski, automotive reporter for WJR in Detroit joins us to talk about the growth in popularity of electric cars. We also speak to Texas Democratic State Representative Alex Dominguez to find out how much longer his caucus will remain away from Austin in hopes of changing new voting legislation in the Lone Star State.

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Laura Reiley of the Washington Post returns to tell us why some National Guard members are having trouble feeding their families. We also talk to Eric Edelman, former US Ambassador to Turkey and Finland and a counselor at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments about the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan and the problems it's causing there.

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