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With muslims. cnns david culver digs into the unlikely partnership between one nation that wants its citizens to embrace islamic fundamentalism and another that puts isthmus limbs in concentration camps and what the u.s. state department has called a genocide. >> reporter: just weeks before the taliban seized power in afghanistan, china made a very public display of growing closer to the groups leadership. chinese foreign minister yi meeting a taliban delegation in northern china in july, giving...

Downsize our military a little at a time. what communication failure was there from six weeks ago when we heard the president say that there was not a possibility or wasnt likely the taliban would take over the entire country. what changed so much in just six weeks? and also there was very little military response on behalf of the afghanistan army in response to the push forward from the taliban. i think we should get to the bottom of that as well. i think there are a lot of questions that need ...

With saudi arabia and the united arab emirates in order to get them employed in the diplomatic pursuit of making sure the taliban understands that in order to get those people out, united states military forces are going to have to be on the ground for two, three weeks, maybe a month, who knows, but do we need an intermediary to make sure that happens? >> i dont know that we need an intermediary, you want to have as many points of influence assuring things as possible. one of the open questions ...

Walk around the streets on their own. its completely in taliban control, which means they dont have personal freedoms. control, which means they dont have personalfreedoms. so control, which means they dont have personal freedoms.— personal freedoms. so of course the cities are in — personal freedoms. so of course the cities are in our— personal freedoms. so of course the cities are in our control, _ personal freedoms. so of course the cities are in our control, but - personal freedoms. so...

Future, fareed. >> what is extraordinary is the lack of response, the military response from the afghan army, but even political response from the afghan government. have we heard anything other than that brief prerecorded message from president ghani or from the defense minister or from the commander of the afghan military? >> no, thats basically all we heard, a brief message from the defense minister, another brief message from the interim minister, assuring everyone to be calm, that cab y ul ...

Working with the cities to conduct audits here across the buildings across the greater miami-dade area and that particular building the champlain tower north built at the same time by the same firm and noted serious instruct ral concerns and individuals do live in the complex and of course addresses the challenges takes time and i think today a lot of this came to a head if i may. you saw on the 14th day of searching mayor cava address the reporters in an emotional way. shes been straight faced ...

Conference or somehow merge the two. thats going to be really tough to figure out here, and what this is going to require is all of the white house skill that theyve managed so far and the campaign before it since last summer when the president, then candidate biden, has this commission with bernie sanders, was trying to find an area of agreement, moving in the same direction, and weve talked about steve. ron klains role so far is assuring progressives along the way. president biden said hes goi...

Where are they, and are they okay is how did this happen? and what i keep hearing is that building was no different than a dozen other buildings up and down collins avenue here which is where its located which is a very famous strip here. how much concern do you have about getting an answer about why this happened and assuring people that this isnt something to worry about where they live? >> so ironically, i grew up just blocks away from here. and i can tell you how many times ive been in this ...

And and because the way the reporting works they wanted to wait and see what was going on. it was abundance of caution. turned out not to be as strong a signal as they feared. i dont think thats the right precedent. i think they did -- they made in their best judgment the decision they thought at the time would be most assuring. and so -- and in this particular case, you know, i dont think weve got very serious concerns. we still as you said victor have a small percentage of the population that ...

Address, including russias continuing cyberattacks on the u.s. its detainment of several americans in russia. its continuing interference in u.s. elections. so many issues. president biden promising to challenge putin on those issues directly, poppy. >> ahead of his trip to geneva, biden was in brussels where he reaffirmed the united states commitment to strong transatlantic ties at the eu/u.s. summit. our team is following all of these crucial angles and sit-downs. lets start in brussels. arlet...