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Afghanistan, and we want to make sure that we retain lines of engagement because that is how we will adjust to the new reality are mentioned. it is going to be a challenge, and it will require a new set of strategies, so i think there are four key things we have discussed, and we are very like—minded on. the first is making sure afghanistan is not a haven or harbour to terrorists again, in the future, secondly preventing a humanitarian crisis, and again, that is why we have doubled our aid spe...

In a position it call upon us, and we dont answer the phone anymore. >> the counter argument, of course, is that there are as many as 2,000, maybe more as general mckenzie said isis-k fighters released from the prisons from the taliban. the taliban acknowledging that that was a big mistake. so there are those terrorist, plus the haqqani network. kalil haqqani with a bounty on his head by the state department and wanted by the fbi is now in charge of security in kabul for the taliban. the overlap...

Cleared. lets face it, the extraction has been very, very difficult, very challenging, tragic loss of 13 service men but the real nightmare would have been a shootdown of one of those c-17s or a massive truck bomb inside the wire. i felt relief as i saw the c-17 lift, i bet the president did too when they handed him the note you mentioned a minute ago. operationally, willie, im worried about those american citizens, of course, but also the 100,000 to 200,000 afghans who stood with us through muc...

Defense overseeing the rise of isis against in afghanistan. this isnt a threat we didnt know about. as a member of the armed services committee going back to afghanistan as a member of congress weve been briefed many times on the isis-k threat in afghanistan. this administration knew this was going to happen. they knew if you gave control back to the taliban, it would allow for a safe haven and environment where isis-k would rise up and pose a direct threat to the homeland to the united states o...

Its still a struggle to survive or still a race to try to escape as fast as they can. one of 0sama bin ladens closest aides, amin al—haq, is reported to have returned to afghanistan after two decades. he was head of security for the al-qaeda leader. his reappearance will underscore fears in the west that afghanistan could become a haven for violent extremists again. lets get more now with our security correspondent frank gardner. frank, thanks for speaking to us this afternoon. tells more abou...

The prime minister has promised that international leaders will continue to pressure the taliban to ensure people who want to leave afghanistan can do so safely. in a draft resolution adopted on monday evening, the un security council also urged the taliban not to allow afghanistan to become a base for terrorism. our chief political correspondent adam fleming joins us now. adam, what is the government hoping to achieve? listening to our correspondent, the question from him and for people in afgh...

Pick it up today and by Monday it will look just like that, all over again, workers and...

Find haven and can operate from? >> well, isis has established itself and is about enemy of the taliban and vice versa. thats not a haven. theyre there and have to be dealt with. and i can see -- again, im not predicting the future, but i can imagine a situation where the u.s. military is conducting air support for taliban forces on the ground to tackle isis. i can picture that, right? it may not happen. but in terms of al qaeda, our presence in the u.s. allowed for the decimation of al qaeda in...

In the mast 20 years. >> thats a very, very good point. im glad you made it. what do you say to the more hawkish critics of the president who say, look, leaving afghanistan, especially leaving afghanistan in this way whether we like it or not will embolden our enemies they say. will lead to afghanistan once again becoming a haven for al qaeda and other terrorist groups. what do you say to them? >> i would say a couple of things, that the drone strikes in the past couple of days have indicated th...

Exist for afghanistan, how with a goal of trying to figure out how we extricated ourselves from afghanistan, what is the end game? and those meetings were, as i said, quite intense and vice president biden was very much of the mind that we went to afghanistan to disable al-qaeda. we went to afghanistan to -- to bring to justice the people who had attacked us and we should keep the focus on that mission and not allow it to become something larger. well, it did become something larger. the argumen...