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Including 60 black hawk helicopters and military drones, a 29 attack aircraft. the taliban and have technological capability to use the sophisticated weapons? >> if they dont they can find someone they can hire to teach them that so the united states has to be concerned about the aircraft. you dont want the taliban and their terrorists allies to have a capability when youre trying to rescue americans and afghan allies to get them out of the country but even if president biden authorizes airstrik...

But they havent explained how are they going to deal with the fact that its the taliban who decides who gets out, not the united states? theres no answer been given to that and i cant imagine what the answer is because i dont know how you change that situation. >> now, you mentioned the 5,000 people that the taliban let out. that are assumed to be bad guys who wanted to do bad things. that plays into the other question. now that youre not in afghanistan and youve had 20 years of no repeat of a 9...

Over-the-horizon capability. well, i had that in the 1990s and let me tell you, that was not very satisfactory. if we go back to having an over-the-horizon capability again, with no intelligence assets and no military assets in the country, which is where we are, were not going to know. were not going to know when the terrorist group is plotting another attack on the u.s. >> so were going to have to hear that plan from them also about how they deal with that. and then you have what we saw today ...

Catastrophe in criticized the president for withdrawing u.s. troops. french parliamentarian we thought america was back commit angola merkel is questioning hi motives very calling for accountability on perhaps on behalf of the united states saying the u.s. bears the main responsibility for the current situation. we cant fact check it fast enough because there were so many wrist representations of what is happening on the ground to hear the president talk abou still having an over the rising capa...

Though we have americans behind enemy lines, well, no one is being killed right now that i know of. and his own military -- his military advisors warned him against withdrawing. i dont recall -- so, colonel, you have been to every war zone since vietnam, youve been to afghanistan, youve been to iraq. my question to you is, i dont see a military option, at this point. because, well, theres too much leverage available on the other side that bothers me and concerns me, and i wont go into the detail...

Risks and then offer up opportunities to the secretary to make a recommendation and we would go from there. >> so now, just to make sure i understand what youre saying, for the first time this many days into the operation, the u.s. military has the capability and capacity to go into kabul and get americans for the first time? >> we have additional capacity now as we have flown additional forces in. but as i said earlier, im not going to talk about potential future operations one way or the other...

Im a bit frustrated that after all of these reports weve written that people are now saying that theyre surprised at the outcome of the afghan security forces. we have been identifying serious, serious problems with their capability and we have been warning our government and congress and anybody who would listen that they were not able to function by themselves. now, we didnt predict when they were going to collapse. i think we were all a bit surprised by that. but no one should be surprised by...

Now that is just not factual. the fact is, even in open force un reporting, the united nation has reported that the taliban i in 15 different provinces insid of afghanistan. that is the reality. we have to deal with that reality. i am stunned that he still is holding to that kind of information. this over the horizon thing. we are going to track the development of international terrorism inside of afghanistan from over the horizon. remember what has happened here we had a huge intelligence robus...

United states in that circumstance? we went and did the mission. youve known my position for a long, long time. it is time to end this war. the estimates of the cost of this war of the past 20 years is a minimum $1 trillion to a think tank and by the university saying, 2 trillion. that is somewhere between $150 million a day and $300 million a day. there is a greater danger from isis and al-qaeda and all of these affiliates and other countries by far than there is from afghanistan. and we are go...

Recognition by federal authorities very early on. and so it wasnt someone they spent much time focusing on. when this case popped up, they did a little hunting around and check out what was happening with this case because they saw it was a misdemeanor and all of a sudden they uncovered this video. so it really is this remarkable moment where these online sleuths completely changed the trajectory of a federal prosecution. >> that is absolutely incredible, but also makes me wonder what the fbi is...