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0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. were working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classifi...

0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. weve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. ...

>> weve lost the eyes and ears on the ground in afghanistan. that helped us to know where the terrorists were. id be the first to say weve lost some of the capabilities, but that shouldnt diminish the capabilities that that we still have. we do -- we are still safer. i hope we can remain that safe into the future. eric: retired u.s. army major joins us, he served in active duty for 34 years and is author of the book, "hunting the caliphate." general certainly knows about the hazards and the dang...

Lloyd austin. cnns wolf blitzer talked to him and asked him two questions. one, is the u.s. safer, and two, what was accomplished in the ceos longest war? here is how the secretary responded. >> we went there to go after the people who attacked america and to hold them accountable. we held bin laden accountable. we significantly degraded the al qaeda network and i would point to you the fact that no one has attacked the united states and especially from that region in 20 years. thats not an acci...

Going to concern the region too much or concern the united states as much as if it was a ballistic missile, using the technology that is banned by the united nations. but it is something we really havent seen too much from north korea recently. north korea has been more focused on covid-19. its been more focused on its food crisis, which it has publicly acknowledged. so we really havent seen the focus return back to its nuclear and missile capabilities in this same way. it is an interesting deve...

Vulnerable communities? >> you know, this project is on my radar. i have already spoken with the governor of louisiana. i have had conversations with the secretary of the department of environmental quality. i have also spoken with the house members that represent that district. we will continue to focus on this area. we will continue to offer up the technical capabilities that the eps can offer to help do the proper environmental justice, air quality, water quality analyses that need to be done...

The last 20 years. every soldier that came in and left flowed through bagram airbase. we had important intelligence capabilities and sensors that could see in the region. i wrote an op-ed and sent a letter to the biden administration and asked secretary of defense austin directly during a hearing months ago why we would give away the only base in the world that we have that physically borders china and its backdoor and also sandwiched between russia and iran? it is a 12,000-foot runway, maria. i...

Said they believed that the nuclear plant have been restarted, something that 38 north, which focuses on this kind of satellite imagery believed to be the case as well. certainly there was this expectation that even while we werent hearing too much from north korea when it came to the missile capabilities, that they were continuing to develop their capabilities. >> now north korea claiming the successful laumnch of a new lon range missile. north korea is believed to already have missiles that co...

Every soldier that came in or left flowed through bagram airbase but we had important intelligence b capabilities and sensors that could see in the region. i wrote an op-ed and sent a letter to the biden administration and asked secretary of defense austin directly during a hearing months ago, why we would give away the only base in the world that we have that physically borders china and its back door but also sandwiched between russia and iran. its a 12,000-foot runway there, maria. if you wan...

That allowed us to run intelligence that we have, weve lost bagram and other airfields that were able to allow us to run even drone operations out of them. i would be the first to say weve lost some of the capabilities. nah shouldnt diminish the capabilities we do have. we are still safer. i hope we can remain that safe into the future. >> thank you to secretary rice for joining me last week. so did america win its longest war? its a tough question even with tougher answers from americas top gen...