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The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") has opined for the first time on the controversial 1996 EU Blocking Regulation,1 which prohibits EU companies...

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...

Move across the country? >> courtney, we saw the taliban making advances even before the biden administration came into office. we saw the taliban making advances at the district level before the president made his decision. >> but not like were seeing now. this is a different ball game in the last week or so. these specific gains, taking these major cities like kandahar, herat, i mean, has that caught the military off guard, the speed with which theyve been able to do it? >> we have been watchi...

Maintaining robust over the horizon counterterrorism capabilities in the region and were going to continue to support our afghan partners, bilaterally, through maintenance support, through financial support, and were going to continue to want to see a stable, secure afghanistan. the other thing i would say is that we want to continue to see that theres a negotiated political settlement here for governance going forward, so thats what our focus is on right now. >> do you really think the taliban ...

Support that too. >> some veterans think that the americans should just pull everybody out of kabul. the u.s. government should pull all americans out of kabul and then just level the embassy. what do you think about that? >> i think that one of the great things about this country is that people are free to express their opinions about anything that they want. what im here to do, lucas, my job, is to articulate the policies that were executing and the way in which were executing them and thats w...

Secretary or the joint staff a contingency plan to reintroduce u.s. combat troops a la what we did in 2014 in iraq if the white house requests it? has that -- such a plan been crafted? >> that we are a planning organization, tony, is true, whats also true is we dont talk about every single plan on the books. our focus right now, tony, and the plans that we are executing are to meet the presidents drawdown requirement by the end of this month, not -- and to assist in the drawdown of state departm...

Battalions that are going to the international airport over the course of the next few days. >> thank you. >> thank you. question is, pakistan is blaming now, again, u.s. for the crisis in afghanistan and also prime minister of pakistan, he already knows the taliban government in kabul. and finally, if any country in the region, including india, ask u.s. help in this mission of evacuation? >> i dont know of any other nations involved in this. i mean, these are sovereign decisions that nation sta...

House correspondent, phil mattingly, and cnn senior international security editor, nick paton walsh. let me start with you. 17 capitals now, at least 17, this is happening remarkably fast. >> in a week. and if you cast your mind back, victor, to literally how the last 20 years have often been about stalemates over a village in the middle of nowhere, an intense amount of u.s. military power, the speed of this reversal is utterly staggering, faster frankly than when the u.s. swept in, in 2001. the...

Ground. what we have said is that the afghans have the capability to do that. and we still believe that they could make a difference on the ground. we will do what we can from the air. but they have the advantage. they have greater numbers. they have an air force. they have modern weaponry. its indigenous forces that can make the difference on the ground. and thats -- so, our support to the afghans was really done in that vein. and again, as for counterterrorism, youve heard the secretary say hi...