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A lot of that. can you give us a better picture of what is happening to people that may be failing the screening or problems with screening or the country -- the allies that youre dealing with. are they expecting some concerns about what is going to happen to those people, what will the u.s. do with them and can you tell us also if there has been any covid problems with the evacuees. thank you. >> lita, ill go reverse order. number 1, were pleasantly surprised at the very few covid situations th...

Allowing us to use their soil for ten days, it become an administrative challenge with respect to moving people. as i said, jennifer, commanders on the ground have the right to conduct testing and administer vaccination if conditions on the ground warrant. that is a commanders call, that theyre equipped to make and they have the resources to support that. for the purpose of facilitating the flow of our evacuees, in order to comply with the restrictions of the nations, this is a current policy th...

Joining me now is a retired colonel that served in afghanistan several tours and sat down with the taliban in a process to work some kind of negotiations. id like to get a broad thought from you, colonel in terms of what you witnessed the past couple weeks of what you think went wrong and what you would do now. >> well, in terms of what went wrong, you have three main things that went wrong. the first one is the -- you saw a lack of buy-in from the afghan people for the afghan government. you sa...

I remain optimistic. am i certain? absolutely not. and optimism is something that we need to create. if we abandon and run away from this country and not engage with the taliban, then we will leave it to the talibans rule. thats why we need to return and engage with them, and play our role. and if at the end we do not succeed, then at least we will say we tried. so, to tell me that im certain, im absolutely confident, no, im not, but i remain optimistic. i feel hope. i do talk to the ordinary ta...

Question for both of you, please. given the experience of the past couple of weeks at the kabul airport where u.s. commanders were coordinating or at least communicating daily with taliban commanders to an effect that general mckenzie himself said at times was very helpful and general milley, in your case, last year you had face-to-face meetings with taliban leaders at least on a couple occasions. i wonder what you think these experiences say about the prospect for a united states relationship w...

And tens of thousands of afghan soldiers and police officers, and tens of thousands more afghan civilians. now, we have just concluded the largest air evacuation of civilians in american history. it was heroic. it was historic. and i hope that all americans will unite to thank our service members for their courage and compassion. they were operating in an immensely dangerous and dynamic environment. but our troops were tireless, fearless and selfless. our commanders never flinched. and our allie...

Evacuations. the u.s. insists the major military equipment left behind was disabled. but the taliban has released video that purports to show fighters driving some of the 70 mine-resistant ambush protectant vehicles left behind. there were many logistical elements to air lifting more than 122,000 people out of kabul. and details are now emerging about an arrangement with the taliban to escort groups of americans to the airport gates. oren liebermann has more. >> reporter: the taliban has been a ...

Am i certain? absolutely not. and optimism is something that we need to create. if we abandon and run away from this country and not engage with the taliban, then we will leave it to the talibans rule. thats why we need to return and engage with them, and play our role. and if at the end we do not succeed, then at least we will say we tried. so, to tell me that im certain, im absolutely confident, no, im not, but i remain optimistic. i feel hope. i do talk to the ordinary taliban in whose eyes i...

Or not. he said they always manipulated them going up to the white house to make it look like things were going well. he said it was to, one, make the people in charge look good and, two, to make sure that popular support for the war didnt diminish. so, yes, they were lying and they were manipulating public opinion. >> robert gaetz who was the secretary of defense under bush said this in 2013. quote, the reality is that on 9/11, we didnt know jack -- about al qaeda. apologies for the language bu...

Hundreds of partners in nato and beyond. afghan soldiers and police officers, tens of thousands more afghan civilians. now, we have just concluded the largest air evacuation of americans in american history. it was heroic, historic. and i hope that all americans will unite to thank our service members for their courage and compassion. they were operating in an immensely dangerous and dynamic environment. but our troops were tireless, fearless, and selfless. our commanders never flinched and our ...