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Against terrorists. weve lost air fields that allowed us to run drone operations out of them, so i would be the first to say weve lost some of the capabilities. but that shouldnt diminish the capabilities we still 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 generals. my co-host jake tapper has a cnn special re...

Regenerate, rebuild and eventually carry out more attacks. because of that concern, we are hearing more and more about how the military has these capabilities that are in neighboring countries like qatar, like uae, mainly drones, unmanned aircraft, that will conduct intelligence, that will look in on these groups, and that if -- if able, they will carry out attacks and strike these groups to hopefully be able to stop them from being able to regroup and regenerate back to their strength of before...

Spent quality time there. >> you know thats where we use our capabilities there to support a range of activities throughout the region. >> bottom line, because i know you have to run, is the united states safer today than it was 20 years ago? >> wolf, i think if you look at the fact that our capabilities are greatly increased from what we had 20 years ago, if you look at the fact that the way that we operate in the inner agency is far beyond what we would have ever imagined 20 years ago, i think...

Capabilities in the region? lets ask seth jones, senior vice president and director of the international security program at the center for strategic and international studies and former senior advisor to the u.s. special operations command in afghanistan. hes also author of the book "in the graveyard of empires, americas war in afghanistan". so seth, nice to see you. thank you for coming in. so i guess basic question, are we safer now against the jihadist threat than we were 20 years ago? >> we...

Now to keep my oath, preserve, protect and defend, and thats why he counts on people like mark tillman, here, because mark swore to follow the commander in chief, except when the commander in chief says im going back to washington, d.c., it was premature. >> interesting job you had, because at that moment we didnt have enough information, we didnt know what was under attack. we didnt know what capabilities -- there are some people who thought it was al qaeda or osama bin ladin in the early momen...

Allow al qaeda to reconstitute in afghanistan. does that concern you? >> it concerns me greatly, because i dont believe that this is a new taliban. theyve never broken their bonds with al qaeda.wenow that theyrl deeply integrated. and so, i think we have a real security challenge ahead of us to both keep an eye on and to degrade those capabilities without forces on the ground. >> odonnell: how do you think the terrorism threat has evolved since september 11, 2001? >> the real danger is that al q...

Have done so much to protect ourselves at home.— have done so much to protect ourselves at home. you said to ourself ourselves at home. you said to yourself immediately _ ourselves at home. you said to yourself immediately after - ourselves at home. you said to yourself immediately after the | yourself immediately after the 9/11 attacks when you were looking at a map of afghanistan that its where great powers go to die. were you write about that, given the chaotic us for us exit? d0 that, give...

Afghanistan over the last couple of weeks and on this day the taliban celebrating inauguration of the new taliban government. i think theres a lot of concerns in the intelligence community. i talked to about the possibility of terrorism sprouting up again in afghanistan. we as a country are much better, the defense department, the department of homeland security that was created after 9/11, the counterterrorism center, our capabilities exponentially improved but that piece from peter doocy about...

Future. let me just say one final thing, when i was in government at high levels and i was here for 12 years in washington d.c., we foreclosed a lot of similar type attacks that have been planned. maybe not as sophisticated as this one. but we rolled up a lot of operations. and generally speaking, the counter intelligence and counter-terrorism capabilities of the united states have functioned very effectively. we may however, now the entering into a new era. and we may have to see some significa...

From nato, and our allies from afghanistan, the part that doesnt make me feel very comforted that weve lost the eyes and ears on the ground in afghanistan that helped us to know where the terrorists were, that allowed us to run the kinds of operations that you sometimes have to run against terrorists. we lost bagram and other airfields that were able to allow us to run certain, to, even drone operations out of them. i would be the first to say we lost some of the capabilities. but that shouldnt ...