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Give our folks on security, would they have the capability, or do they as you point out, theyre just getting control now, so theyre in charge but not necessarily in control. >> chuck, thats part of it. i think that we have a sense that the taliban suddenly magically took over all of kabul and are in control, not meeting any resistance. most people in kabul didnt expect the taliban to take over that quickly so they have done this in such a short period of time. the taliban dont have as good of ce...

We had an early warning from an intelligence perspective, but that does not do a lot of good if you do not control your perimeter out to a sufficient range where you can screen people at a checkpoint, layered checkpoints that would identify a threat. force a terrorist to reveal hostile intent and capability before they get intermingled with the crowd like this or that close to the perimeter. it would require additional forces, no doubt about it and greater risk as well. but i want to say, as a s...

Risky for them to be there. it is a dangerous and difficult mission but it must be seen through and we intend to see it through as best we can. carley: the question was due to increasingly difficult situation our americans safe, she clearly did not answer that question at all. jillian: that through and through a politicians response to not answering a question they are being asked and earlier at 4:00, montgomery granger talking to us talking about the isis terror threat to afghanistan. listen to...

Defense department and no uncertain terms early, may, june, july, what was happening and they did nothing. what are you hearing? >> we received a series of briefings the last several days, sean, and it is very clear that this white house is not being honest with the american people. we are hearing very different things behind closed doors from these breakers. the defense department in no uncertain terms told biden and his white house to leave a residual force behind and to not do this.nms the in...

Network is in charge of security in kabul. you compound that with the 5,000 we made the afghans release from prison and compound that further with all the prisons being empty now of isis and al qaeda and the taliban. and so what we now have is a new epicenter of jihadist terrorism that is a great threat to the world. are we going to stop talking about we need to engage the taliban about the future of afghanistan and maybe instead engage afghans other than the taliban about the future of afghanis...

Do that. we talked about the overwatch. we have the unmanned aircraft and other drone systems that have very good optical and other means of looking down. we look what happened around the gate. we identified patterns. highly trained people to take a look at that we also have our aircraft that we fly locally. av-64s that i mentioned and other manned aircraft that come off of the carrier that we have off of the coast as well as u.s. air force aircraft that we bring up from out of afghanistan. ever...

Individuals i have closely. you can vet anyone coming onto the airfield independently and look at their background and do all of the checks you want. at the end of the day when theyre at the airport and the entrances we saw in afghanistan over the weekend, theyre at a new location. those troops on the ground face new risks. its something is that if the biden administration plans to move forward with and continue evacuations up until the very last minute, the august 31st deadline they have to con...

Passed. is that realistic? mr; passed. is that realistic? tj�*i understanding passed. is that realistic? tj�*i: understanding is passed. is that realistic? m; understanding is that the americans have only a thousand people left to get out. and in terms of the capability and capacity of the americans, if people want to come out, they could. the british have been more reticent to give you the figures that they are entitled. different figures to get bandy around, as of yesterday, there were 200...

He was. promised a swift and forceful response to any disruption. obviously this is the worst kind of disruption. what are we expecting to see him now. >> the pentagon made the capability they had to follow out the message if they are able to identify where folks are associated with these terrorist actually are. i think the operative issue here is we havent heard from the president yet today. over the hes been huddled with hit top advisers receiving regular updates about a situation that the adm...

Air base, well let you go, get out by the 31st, maybe has no capability to do that. some things to think about, remember when the u.s. took baghdad in 2003. there was a brief lull but it wasnt long after that that u.s. forces couldnt control all of baghdad. they did not have intelligence. you saw insurgencies pop up. i think youll see a similar thing in a lot of afghan cities, taliban have varying degrees of control, understand the networks better, and our contacts or western allies, five eyes p...