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To really go after people that are going to do something? he has proven that he has not done that. this is the guy who stabbed in the situation room is vice president of the united states with a decision being made to go after usama bin laden and pakistan, he was the one that said lets not go, so im not really convinced of the track record of having the will to go after these people wherever they are at. i will tell you for a fact, president trump did. if you do not believe me? try to call soul ...

Say theres nothing on the ground in afghanistan, nobody, that has the capability or capacity to hit the american homeland. i hope that is true. >> a big bet there. heraldo, the president as gone back on his words. he said that they wouldnt be left behind, he said this was an orderly process and planned for and here we are with stories of school age children that are stuck in afghanistan without american forces to get them to the airport. >> jen psaki kept emphasizing over and over that the peopl...

The second thing is geo politically. i trust the united states will not abandon the region. of course, they shouldnt nor would they. afghanistan will be with us for the long term. how are we going to have to address the inevitable concern that we have that afghanistan goes back to its old ways of ung ungoverned space where terrorism can thrive and export their form of terror. the over the horizon capability is enhanced and not diluted. >> that leads us to what the plan is. theres still the state...

Ground, et cetera? >> well, it doesnt -- it obviously does not replicate the capability we had by all the on-the-ground resources we had. but hearking back to history, i was in the intelligence community after 9/11, we have -- were not starting from square a here. we know a lot more about afghanistan and the players there, and weve learned a lot about how to conduct counterterrorism operations. so while we cant replicate having on-the-ground presence, i do believe well have substantial capabilit...

Of the world than we did pre-9/11. theyre more networked and sophisticated and have robust presence in the region. in just the last couple of days we took counter terrorism strikes to eliminate imminent threats. we have the capability, a greater capability now 20 years later than before we were hit on 9/11. >> dana: over the horizon capability, have any of the neighboring countries offered to allow us to base out of there so that we can do it better? >> were still working with some neighboring n...

For even national travel within afghanistan to get certified. so thats going to be challenging. but, again, i would just say simply that the u.s. military has the capability to quite a few things. >> general, i want to put this video up. i want you to check out this video. its from "l.a. times" correspondent showing the taliban entering a hangar at the kabul airport, examining helicopters. general mckenzie said today the u.s. either removed or demilitarized weapons and equipment that were at the...

For a hospital that has the specialists and the icu capability because daniel was quickly deteriorating in front of us. and we kept getting the response sorry, were full. we have no icu capacity. we have no icu capacity. and it was about two hours into that ordeal, not being able to get a bed that i said why dont i try posting this on the physician community in facebook? its one of the largest physician communities on facebook. i posted the situation, the dire straits that daniel was in and got ...

Sunday on "meet the press" about this with isis-k. what is that definition of dismantling the network, the cell or the -- >> the goal is both. they started with this specific cell. the two individuals first targeted friday with a drone strike, one of them was specifically known for helping, teaching with this magnetic explosive capability. that was what was used at the abbey gate last thursday. that was an attempt, specific attempt to stop these kinds of attacks in the future going forward, but ...

Some cases. we need to be getting -- and getting the word out because fema which will have the capability where you can get a hotel voucher. that message need to get out. but you know what, chris? the people who really need to be hearing this, they dont have electricity. many of them dont have a way to power they phones up. and if theyre lucky, they might have an old-time radio that they might get this message. but the people who really need to know whats going on are not listening to this messa...

Sleeping, without eating, without drinking. trying to get to that gate at the airport and get out of there. no such luck, still. >> and now, you know, look. they can talk the talk. >> yeah. >> you know, well still work with the taliban. that falls on deaf ears. >> yeah. >> what is the state department going to do? how is it vetting these people? how is it making improvements? how is it expanding its capability, especially now? we got to push on it because these are gonna be hard times, and not j...