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Bring our men and women home is because the terrorist threat has metastasized. this are other parts of the world and this goes to earlier question, we dont have military presence on the ground, a diplomatic presence on the ground, but were still tracking counterrorism, libya, yemen are two examples of that, that will continue. >> isis-k want to or have capability to attack americans domestically in the united states or just in afghanistan? >> sec. of state psaki: that is not an assessment weve m...

Metastasize and there are other parts of the world which goes to the earlier question where we dont have a military presence on the ground or diplomatic presence on the ground, but we are still tracking counter terrorism threats, libya, yemen are two examples of that, and so that is going to continue. >> and do you believe that isis-k has the capability to attack domestically the united states or only in afghanistan? >> that not an assessment that we have made. is today your last day? >> yes. >>...

Billions of dollars of so mist kated american equipment. were in a worse place now than we were september 10th, 2001. >> but just to be clear on what youre expecting here, sounds like you would be expecting not something obviously coming from the forces that are at the airport or special forces that are there, youre expecting something that would be more like a drone strike? >> i think -- after august 31 thats really going to be the only capability thats left, right? we are literally leaving not...

Force locations, we are not directly involved with the paperwork process. i dont know the role in cent-com of any of their voices. id defer you to general mckenzie on questions for any dod members forward. >> megan. >> general vanherck, its megan meyers from military times. i wanted to ask why these particular bases were chosen for sivs? was it because of space reasons, hard and soft? you know, buildings. and -- or was it because of proximity to afghan communities in the area where some of them ...

Sooner or later. this is what weve allowed to happen. we need to fix it. weve got to go on the offense. thats what i want to see happen. unless your biden. speak of the white house press briefing in response to a question about a potentially increasing risk domestically, press secretary jen psaki said this. >> isiss ability to target individuals on the ground in afghanistan is very different from isiss ability to attack the united states and attack the homeland. >> the closest president biden ca...

That we were -- that we were being as anticipatory as possible. because we still believe there are credible threats. in fact, id say specific credible threats. and we want to make sure were prepared for those. >> reporter: and can they meet the presidents promise of retaliation against the perpetrators of the attack? the top general at that briefing said the u.s. military, of course, does have the capability to do that. but i think its quite clear that what they are still trying to do is find tu...

Enemies they wouldnt have released them? >> there is not reason to believe isis-k and the taliban will court nordinate overtly. there may become common purpose go after different targets. what i see with the release of these prisoners again, credible as apparently it is i see that as a longer term issue as opposed to immediate influx of fighters who are going to join some end being consistent plans that about to be executed plans that are about to be launched. these prisoners are going back to t...

Suspicious activity? >> as we talked about troop numbers and capability. capability has not changed for us to secure the gates and be table process evacuees and our ability to rapidly turn aircraft as they arrive and get those out. as we talk about force protection at the gate, i wont get into the specific ttps that those junior leaders are taking down there other than we continue to learn every day from the day before and we work within all the capabilities we have to insure one, that we can co...

Earliers with we talk about troop numbers and capability. capability has not changed for us to secure all of the gates, to be able to process evacuees and our ability to rapidly turn aircraft as they arrive and get -- as we about forced protection at the gate, im not going to get into the specific ttps that those junior leaders are taking down there other than we continue to learn every day from the day before. and we work within all of the capabilities we have to ensure, one, that we could cont...

U.s. forces on the ground in afghanistan? or at least how difficult does it become? >> its difficult on multiple levels. understand most of our intelligence capability has been withdrawn. bear in mind, we have the job of the cia, the job of military intelligence capabilities and especially our joint special operations capabilities, their intelligence. unique intelligence gathering capabilities. its to maintain networks as best you can and stay on top of that. as a result of the efforts that have...