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And there are many of us that said that the military and intelligence community is much better than that. dont underrate their capabilities. and, yes, it is tougher. because you dont have the so-called reconnaissance on the target. you dont have the so-called eyes on the target? but still there is a capability. to just target signals intelligence. human intelligence from other areas other than just u.s. forces on the ground. there are, you, know basically spies that would say. hey, describes whe...

Particularly in the way that he did idea that some of this is a vindication for the counterterrorism but youre run. yes, we did get ayman al zawahiri, but we also got usama bin laden in a place wouldnt have active operations are going on a day-to-day basis. weve long known that we have the capability but the ability to stave off terrorism without being there is simply not true. it will be over the long run, but in this case, the president it did a good job, he took out 37, it should get credit f...

Chaotic and deadly withdrawal from afghanistan. politically, what does this victory mean for the biden administration? >> listen. i think as to the capabilities of, you know, their ability to contract this strike without boots on the ground, this is validation of something that biden administration officials and the president talked about during that withdrawal from afghanistan last year. youll recall that at the time, as president biden was announcing that withdrawal, he found that the united s...

Encouraging them to exploit the outcome a little bit when we have people on the ground, and seize their votes and telephones in et cetera. so this is a blow to al-qaeda, theyve been severely limited in the capability anyway during the past 20 years, but was on a cia and over two tier one military counterterrorism operations, we will continue to do that. theres been some spectacular success by both the military and the agency in syria in recent months, so i think the biden administration has done...

Over the horizon types of attack and there were many of us that said yeah, the military and the intelligence community is much better than that. dont underrate their capabilities and, yeah, its tougher because you dont have the so-called reconnaissance on the target. you dont have the so-called eyes on the target, but still there is the capability as phil just said to target signals intelligence, human intelligence from other areas other than just u.s. forces on the ground. there are, you know, ...

Out these very precise strikes within instance, they are laser guided. over the course of the last 15 years or so, there has been the technology that has been developed on the missiles, the platform selves they really allow these exquisite operations to take place, despite the fact that we dont have the presence on the ground in afghanistan. president biden was true to his word, that we withdrew our troops, and were still gonna have the capability to direct these threats, and take an actual and ...

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That he hasnt released. >> along those lines, let me also ask you in terms of being aware, you said that at least some elements that the taliban, the regime in charge and afghanistan, knew that zawahiri was there. their expressions, sort of anger, or upset that this strike happened within their territory. do you anticipate that the taliban themselves could try to mount some sort of retaliation? if they do, are they capable of causing harm to u.s. interests? >> were gonna be watching real close, ...

We left afghanistan and other terrorists will run wild, now al qaeda will form afghanistan and reform and ironically enough, not suggesting joe biden saw this ahead of time but ironically enough it was the united states leaving afghanistan that had the head of al qaeda comfortable sitting in an apartment in afghanistan or we could find him and take him out. >> obviously that has been quick criticism already from republicans, they say it is good news but this shows the taliban is harboring people...

Maybe he would have been able to paper over those differences. >> one open question following the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. were coming up at the end of the month on the one year anniversary of that had been can the u.s. carry out effective counterterror operations from outside the country without boots on the ground, whether they be u.s. military or cia assets? and bill burns, cia director, acknowledged publicly it is more difficult. i spoke to the head of mi6 who said it is more diffic...