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Everybody else about, is this a repeat of the fall of saigon? youre not a historian, but i know that the secretary, a number of you guys are thinking, how do you answer that question? can you give a sense of where the analogy is apt and where its a very bogus, fallacious analogy to equate whats going on now with the potential fall of saigon. >> what i can tell you is were not focused on the history of the vietnam war. were just not. were focused on meeting the requirements that we have today. th...

In afghanistan as "absolutely unprecedented"... a tragedy is unfolding, a humanitarian crisis emerging, and we are working to ensure that we bring people from afghanistan, both british nationals, those who have been working for the government, and with the government and supporting us, including people of afghan nationality, to the united kingdom. there is an enormous resettlement programme that the defence secretary and i are overseeing. so that is our priority right now. and, of course, when i...

Think that was made under the trump administration was that the taliban would do nothing as far as attacking americans, and were trying to make sure that that continues. >> so lets be clear, and i have some other questions i want to get to, but lets be clear. american troops going into kabul, are they there to defend the embassy and evacuate americans or do you believe the president should be sending in troops whose mission includes defending kabul, and keeping the taliban out of kabul. >> im sa...

Community, but who knows? so basically weve got to wrap this thing up pretty rapidly. it could all come apart in a week or in 90 days. no one knows. >> director brennan, if i hear you correctly, you are describing something more nuanced than a failure of the intelligence community to assess either the weaknesses of the afghan security forces or the strengths of the taliban, which seemed the same as theyve largely been for the last 20 years. youre describing a psychological aspect that may have b...

This time. >> second question. you heard the narrative and the questions from reporters and everybody else is this a repeat of the fall of saigon? you are not a historian. a number of you guys are thinking: how do you answer that question? give a sense of the analogy to equate what is going on now with the fall of saigon? >> we are not focussed on the history of the vietnam war. we are just not. we are focussed on meeting the requirements that we have today. thats where our head space is. we hav...

Will the u.s. allow if it is looking like the other advanced aircraft that it looks like we have provided the aircraft over the years, will the u.s. allow the aircraft fall into the talibans hands or is there a way for that to happen? >> i think that you can understand for me not to respect to that speculate on that, tara. there are flying missionings everyday and we have made commitments to help that, and refurbishing black hawk helicopters and financing some of the mi-17s, in terms of the fina...

To issues such as deportations, our policy is always under review, when the world is in a terrible state. and i think we must reflect right now in terms of what is happening in afghanistan and in the region itself. this government is absolutely clear in terms of our own commitments to the british nationals over there that we are bringing out, but also to the people of afghanistan who we have spent a great deal of time and resource over a number of years, women and girls included as well, to give...

>> on the weapons. will the u.s. allow -- if it looks like the advanced aircraft weve provided afghan forces over the years, will the u.s. allow those aircraft to fall into taliban hands or are there plans under way to make sure that doesnt happen. >> i think you can understand why im not going to speculate about that. there is an afghan air force in place. they are flying missions every day. we have made commitments to help improve their capabilities. those commitments remain in place, includin...

>> one follow-up on mikes question. on the weapons. will the u.s. allow advanced aircraft that we provided afghan forces over the years, will the u.s. allow those aircraft to fall into taliban hands? >> i think you can understand why i wont speculate about that. there is an afghan air force in place flying missions every day. our commitments remain in place refurbishing black hawk helicopters and with financial support. i wont speculate about the destruction of property going forward. we will ma...

Glasgow for the cop meeting, what activist also say, the uk is very good with the rhetoric, great with the rhetoric and the hope is that that rhetoric will infect the minds of leaders round the world and encourage them to sort of come forward with practical policies to cut dorigo, but, there is —— cut greenhouse emission, there is nothing to back them up. the governments own climate advisers say there are not enough policies in place to reach the commitments the uk wants to do. the climate c...