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Qaeda prisoners have been released? is there a sense of that, the worst of the worst as theyve been described? how do we know which taliban are doing what, since that is not necessarily a monolithic leadership group? >> that was one of the principal reasons why we kept u.s. military forces there for so many years. we wanted to have those forward-operating bases in different parts of the country that served as americas eyes and ears to keep tabs on the terrorism front and see what the afghan forc...

Any better and we would have been there stuck for years, im not sure thats going to satisfy anyone. >> reporter: i think that is probably what were going to hear. that is what president biden has said time and time again, that it wasnt our fault, it was their fault. and that we did the best we could, but we werent going to stay in a civil war forever. but for the last several years afghanistan has been relatively stable. there hasnt been many american casualties here. its been over a year and a ...

President if hes doing any last second adjustments to his address. stop making promises that youre not going to keep. how are ke going to get thousands out when we dont have any bases anymore. when the airport is under siege. you cant land an airplane there. this is so appalling and it was so preventible. i say this as something who voted for the president and somebody who was withdrawing f from afghanistan. we didnt have to do this any way. we have got afghans desperately clinging to our c-17s ...

Going to be difficult to be able to maintain the type of intelligence collection capabilities that we had inside of afghanistan because the intelligence presence there were in forward-operating bases that used the military for protection. so that area between afghanistan and pakistan which is where al qaeda and other terrorist organizations have really resided for a number of years, that is an area that i think were going to have to use some remote assets to be able to try to monitor and try to ...

The pessimistic scenario is that the taliban overreach, they monopolize power and invite backlash against themselves. in that case youre like ly to see a wider civil war, likely to see afghanistan descend into war and thats the scenario in which international terrorist groups are more likely to come back. >> can the u.s. credibly address the terror threat from afghanistan from outside the country, right? now that troops are out, theyre going to have to do missions from kuwait, from qatar, hundre...

That we have to fight our way through and we have no bases in the region with afghanistan surrendered by a russia and iran and china and former russia client states. we have nothing to go back into so the intelligence is crystal clear if they hasnt been wasnt clear are being disingenuous. steve: thats a polite way but when biden said july 8 the intelligence said to him when it was put to him that if you do this the afghan government will collapse and biden said no, that is not what the intellige...

Jen psaki has taken the week off, too. this is unacceptable. brian: you got it. joey jones, they have emptied the prisons full of al-qaeda and isis and taliban guys. they have left our bases naked so they have taken all of our stuff and equipment. now they are going to the capitol and i dont know what we are able to do in 48 hours in order to destroy all intelligence for 4,000 people as we left our bases and ran to an open airport. how much damage is done and what do you think? if you are a memb...

The question, whats the role going forward for the clandestine services broadly without specifics? >> well, i dont know what the intelligence assessment was as far as how rapidly the afghan forces were going to collapse. but i do know that the assessment has been for quite a while that the afghan military and security capabilities was very dependent on that u.s. support system. and so i think the events over the last several days caught a lot of folks by surprise within the government. i think t...

Through and we have no bases in the region with afghanistan surrendered by a russia and iran and china and former russia client states. we have nothing to go back into so the intelligence is crystal clear if they hasnt been wasnt clear are being disingenuous. steve: thats a polite way but when biden said july 8 the intelligence said to him when it was put to him that if you do this the afghan government will collapse and biden said no, that is not what the intelligence is saying, was the preside...

Now according to kirby, as u.s. troops try to regain control after thousands of afghans flat out that tarmac to security incidents to mention at the kabul international airport today. two counts of armed afghans killed by u.s. troops. they had hostile intent according to john kirby if you are no indication, however, that they were taliban, according to kirby. there is a preliminary report that one u.s. service member was injured in the melee. as of now, only a few hundred people have been evacua...