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The ability to fly in drones or fighter jets or bombers from other bases, perhaps in the gulf to carry out counter terrorism strikes against isis-k or al-qaeda or even perhaps one day the taliban. the u.s. said that capability and that mission will continue. is this war over? i think you can say now that this war is over. the question about whether there emerges a terror threat in afghanistan that is able to emerge and threaten the u.s. hom homeland, right now nobody is ruling that out. >> we wo...

Have access to all this information as well, is mitigate risks. we cant eliminate risk, and if we were going to continue to evacuate tens of thousands of people, american citizens, afghans, our partners, we had to mitigate risk. we couldnt eliminate it. and thats how we proceeded. now, the president has been clear to his military and to the commanders on the ground that force protection is of utmost concern, and i know my colleague at d.o.d. confirmed the closure of gates earlier today. there ha...

Continue. it will be done much more in secret. the cia over the last 20 years has really transformed from primarily being an espionage service into this mission that several presidents have given it to man hunt and kill and be a counter terrorist organization and this machinery has been built over time. and i think that the chaos weve seen in recent weeks and what is projected is a signal of what will actually be a large part of the cias mission for a long time. there will be intelligence gather...

Including 5,400 americans have been evacuated from afghanistan. u.s. military troops have shown tremendous briefsh re and kam passion putting themselves in harms way to evacuate as many american citizens and afghans as possible during this operation. that work by u.s. service members continues across the globe at a number of intermediate staging bases and d.o.d. installations. centcom more than 27,000 passengers await follow-on movement from six active locations. in u com three active locations ...

Embassy in kabul, staffed by more than 4,000 people just two weeks ago that stood as the symbol of americas engagement in the country will be closed. secretary of state tony blinken is promising that there will still be a way out for afghan allies who remain in the country. >> in terms of having an on the ground diplomatic presence on september 1st, thats not likely to happen. but what is going to happen is our commitment to continue to help people leave afghanistan who want to leave and who are...

American citizens. this has been a massive military and diplomatic undertaken. one of the most difficult in our nations history and extraordinary feat of coordination under some of the most challenging circumstances imaginable. many, many people made this possible. i want to commend our outstanding diplomats who worked around the clock and around the world to coordinate the operation. they volunteered for duty at the kabul airport. they flew to transit countries to help process thousands of afgh...

Taliban took over the country, we visited two bases in the control of the u.s. the taliban is now completely in control. obviously, they seized them from the afghan army but took a huge amount of weaponry, ammunition. we saw ambulances. we saw rangers, those ford rangers, pickup trucks they have been using across the country, humvees. there is no question that they have acquired quite a large war chest as a result of this takeover and there is no getting around that and even the stuff that doesn...

0 get him to the island and as long as theres communication, well be able to communicate with him and see whats going on there. but its very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. theyre having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state ...

0 tonight before dumping rain in tennessee and ohio river valleys tomorrow. theres flash flooding and mudslides along the way. we wish those people well and a quick recovery in a very difficult situation. thanks nor being with us today for "the story," august 30, 2021. the "the story" continues tomorrow. see you back here. >> neil: thank you, martha, very much. were on top of two storms gripping the world right now. certainly our part with the flooding and damage and winds and still more floodin...

Kabul airport which many of us have said from day one is not defendable, we should have been at bagram. however, its also worth noting that biden is removing all of these assets, the drones, our capability to run sourcessen on the ground and have eyes and ears on the ground, its all soon to be gone in just 48 hours. so that will leave us going forward with no troops on the ground, no embassy and having to send drones from halfway around the world. were going to be blind. and if we cant -- we cou...