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Their country. how close can the taliban get to creating that reality. intermarriage is a reality throughout the region. do you believe they can consolidate control of the country and away that they havent before? >> i dont think they will. they are a percentage of the overall number of afghans in the country and they will exercise control but that will be a challenge for them but what matters to us is there will be an governed space, they dont care if they allow isis terrorists to roam free yet...

Attack. so walk us through this. did this attack come from intelligence that the government already had, considering how fast this was? >> well, i think that certainly it was built on that, but in order to have a tact accuracy for a pinpoint strike. apparent lip they did take out an isis-k planner without casualties, that is a good sign. it points out or emphasizes the fact were not starting from scratch here like we were against afghanistan, and the director of the space agency, and we were no ...

But governing this city and the rest of the country is likely to be a far bigger challenge. the group says it will take time for lives to stabilise. one of the few businesses not complaining, this taliban member selling flags. others are still anxiously waiting to see what life under their rule will look like. secunder kermani, bbc news, kabul. the pentagon has confirmed that a us military drone strike killed two �*high profile targets, including a planner for the is—k group, in eastern afgh...

Capability. defense secretary lloyd austin, former general now retired, he says he doesnt have the capability to go in and get every american out of kabul and afghanistan. >> thats a risk assessment. what hes saying i think is that he doesnt have the capability by tuesday. if we stay, if we take -- we have the capability to take bagram. you can parachute in the 75th ranger brigade. you can bring in the 82nd airborne. you can bring in the marine expeditionary movements, you can take bagram. if yo...

Will. they are right up close to these people with their breath -- um -- feeling their breath. so thats as close as -- as they have to get. so the danger is still very real for these u.s. troops, anderson. >> we also heard white house press secretary jen psaki say about those responsible for yesterdays attack that president biden, quote, doesnt want them to live on earth anymore. um, i mean, is there an actual hunt to find them at this stage? do we know? because the president also previously had...

Yesterdays attack. so walk us through this. did this attack come from intelligence that the government already had considering how fast this was? >> well, i think it certainly built on that. but in order to have the tactical accuracy, if you will, in order to conduct a pinpoint strike -- and apparently they did, took out an isis-k planner without any collateral casualties -- thats a very good sign. and i think it makes -- it points out or emphasizes the fact that were not starting from scratch h...

Kudos to be given to our department of state employees and dod and military folks who are trying to process this massive airlift. jacqui: president biden is fulfilling his promise to retaliate against isis by ordering an airstrike that killed two members in afghanistan, just days after 13 americans were killed in a bombing at the kabul airport. joining us now is former cia covert operations officer and ceo of portman squared group, mike baker. thank you so much for being with us, mike. >> sure i...

Or feeling about the impact of this strike on isis-k in afghanistan? have you degraded them in any fashion? can you explain that? if theyre high profile, have you deterred, degraded? what is your conclusion about what the impact of this strike actually has been? >> they have two -- they have two high profile planners or one planner, one facilitator, there are no longer on their muster role. so they have lost some capability to plan and to conduct missions. barbara, make no mistake, nobody is wri...

Counterterrorism for a while and at the white house counter trim. we got the sources worldclass, best in the world at this. i was not surprised. i was gratified that we finally got the hit in. one could conjecture, why didnt we do it beforehand, but i dont know the situation on the ground and you know, you never want to second guess the commanders on the ground and im serious about that because theyve got a lot on their plate so ill take it at face value. >> you know, secretary, one thing that c...

Conduct counterterrorism operations as needed. we continue to evacuate american citizens and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. in fact, there are approximately 1,400 individuals at the kabul airport who have been screened and manifested for flights today. as i said yesterday, we have the ability to include evacuees on military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. this is a massive military diplomatic security and humanitarian undertaking for the united states and our allies. ill give yo...