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Capability— we are still going to maintain the capability to work against those threats — capability to work against those threats as best we can. over the horizon— threats as best we can. over the horizon is— threats as best we can. over the horizon is not something new to us either _ horizon is not something new to us either we — horizon is not something new to us either. we have been doing it for a lon- either. we have been doing it for a long time — either. we have been doing it ...

Puts the ball back over. its the kid that plays the ukulele. its it the -- you know, when you get out of the way and we watch the pure humanity and love of people and the connection to little kids and kinder. >> reporter: but as we pass more and more tents its clear the numbers coming in from kabul far outpace the number flying out and the strain is showing. >> did you think it would get this big? >> never. not even close. and i knew what we could build. and i knew were like okay, when we though...

Bit. the u.s. military, part of their retrograde effort is to reduce the amount of military equipment or apparatus that anyone on the ground has access to. im not going to get into the details of how they do that, that is part of their effort. i will also reiterate something that our national security advisor said just last week. we had to make an assessment several weeks ago about whether we provide materials to the afghan national security forces so they can fight the fight. obviously they dec...

Area itself. first, the intelligence requiremented to strike the islamic state after is a residual intelligence capability and the second is that we can actually strike from outside of afghan. both of the strikes i mentioned here were conducted from outside of afghanistan. >> i think it is worth pointing out they have not identified specifically the isis-k members, the bad guys they think they got in those strikes. i think we should probably have caution with how much credit to give to those ope...

Difficult. i was aft camp a couple thousand tr troops. i dont think theres anyone who would say were going to zero the right way. theres a lot of missteps. i think were going to have to work with our allies and partners across the region. this threat threatens every country and were going to need to work together given that the u.s. wont be present, we have to work with allies and partners and pool our resources and cooperate and do the best we can. we may have to go back in. it may not be our c...

Driven again. additionally on the ramp for a total of 73 aircrafts. those aircrafts will never fly again. >> the two last people on the ground in afghanistan getting on to that last flight were the commander of the 82nd airborne. that was one of the main military groups there. essentially the commander on this ground as this wound down and the top diplomat there. as for how the afghans took this and the taliban, there was celebratory gunfire when the last u.s. flight took off and the taliban put...

Of four different groups. here, then, becomes the question. what is this over-the-horizon capability? and will this commander in chief, if he hears about an asus meeting and some village in eastern afghanistan, will he take the shot? that is something that we are going to move toward 9/11 and 20 years removed, into october, november, and we are going to think that 20 years of eliminating this threat hasnt done it, and that is the reality its going to soak in after tomorrow. >> sandra: so many of...

Resistance forces in the south of afghanistan but they are starting to utilise some of the afghan national army and the capability. again, there are all the ingredients here but what we have seen in syria, which is state actors like russia and the us, playing at national and political agendas through proxies. and i think, as we start but the knock—about evacuation behind us i think is a real question is that we need to be looking at and asking the likes of president biden and payne ministerjoh...

Reduce any of the apparatus that anybody on the ground has access to. i wont give details to how they do that, but that is part of the effort. i will reiterate something that our national security advisory said. we had to make the assessment of whether we could provide the materiels to the afghan fighters, and they decided not the fight. so we have not assessed that any group on the ground whether it is isis-k or the taliban have the ability to attack the united states. we clearly -- sorry, that...

And clearly al qaeda has aspirations to attack america, always has. isis-k obviously has aspirations greater than afghanistan. thats why they have fundamental disagreements with the afghan taliban. i dont think they have the wherewithal yet to conduct an attack against america. why would we permit them to acquire it and why we wanted to keep the modest force there. remember, c.i.a. bases were focused on these organizations. al qaeda and isis. that was their primary focus and the intelligence cap...