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Of gas, water, and food. >> sandra: thanks. secretary state anthony blinken is expected to speak in the hour. after reports of the taliban carrying out mass killings of officials. white house press secretary jen psaki saying that the taliban will be judged. >> we are going to stay in close coordination with the international community with any steps that we may take moving forward. >> sandra: mr. secretary, thank you for being here. obviously an important day in all of this. we are going to hear...

Our thanks. your rewards. ♪♪ >> why is the white house trusting the taliban? startling new reports coming in about the terror group carrying out mass killings going house to house, executing american allies that president biden left

Secretary blinken at the top of the hour. how can we judge the white house today on the mass killings and if they are able to confirm that, how should biden respond? >> first, thanks for having me on. this is indicative of the failed withdrawal plan. if we dont have adequate plans for knowing what is going on in these places, that means that we are in tubal for the months and the years ahead. i cant see what the leverage is. i see that we abandoned all of that leverage when we left the ground. a...

Changed organisation in some ways. they have different personnel in some places and some positions now than they did when they were in power backin did when they were in power back in the 90s and they are certainly a more savvy organisation when it comes to the use of media and international diplomacy and i think that we have seen this in recent days where they are saying a lot of the things that the international community might want to hear but if you look outside of carb or what little report...

Them at their word? well, first of all, isolated incidences, as bad as they are, and they must stop and weve spoken out against them, theres also a bit of exaggeration, i would say. sorry, whats exaggerated about what ive just told you? well, some of the killings that we hear finally turns out not to be accurate. there are also personal animosities, so anybody killed in any part of the country is not necessarily a taliban killing. and secondly, even yesterday, i had former generals or recently f...

Lay-up. what are you hearing? >> its not a lay-up. were hearing already about vicious killings where if the taliban find if you have anything on your cell phone to see that if you been in touch with americans and calling the phone numbers and executing people as they try to get to safety. so those guarantees from the taliban probably not worth the paper theyre written on. most of them are not written on paper because the taliban are illiterate for the most part. this is an impossible situation. ...

Very credible reports of executions of directors of security from at least a couple of provinces. weve heard from zarifa ghafari, a female mayor, the first in the whole of afghanistan, who had to flee the country because she knew that the taliban were searching for her. weve seen one of the countrys folk musicians, a well—known musician, murdered by the taliban. weve seen a comedian in the south of the country, also well known, murdered by the taliban. im sure they didnt tell you they were goi...

Well, first of all, isolated incidences, as bad as they are, and they must stop and weve spoken out against them, theres also a bit of exaggeration, i would say. sorry, whats exaggerated about what ive just told you? well, some of the killings that we hear finally turns out not to be accurate. there are also personal animosities, so anybody killed in any part of the country is not necessarily a taliban killing. and secondly, even yesterday, i had former generals or recently former generals, form...

Very important for americans to understand the war is not over that weve seen retributions and killings even over the last 24 hours and those are likely to continue. so the war will go on. americas role will just decline. >> so david, republicans, some of them are calling for biden to resign or be impeached. kevin mcelccarthy has been aske about this a lot and dodging these questions. here is what he said instead. >> i believe right now we should get every american home. i believe there should b...