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Fired new long range cruise missiles. lets bring in democratic congressman rajafrom illinois. these test apparently happened this weekend. how concerned are you after hearing this? >> im concerned. i think, first of all, we have to verify this actually happened. secondly, i think that, as you know, these cruise missiles are different than ballistic missiles. the united nations has put sanctions and we have worked with our partners with regard to trying to tamp down developments in the ballistic ...

Contrary to other muslim countries practice and to the nature of muslim society. and also weve not seen theres religious minorities. theyre not only reality. there are ethnic religious women, other minorities that need to see themselves in any political settlement and only then everyone will feel ownership. because this is a caretaker ownership we still have leverage in the international community. in other states and countries around the world they have to use their leverage to ensure theres pa...

For their invasion. there was no other problem. they still have the same law. there hasnt been any change to it. obviously people change but that hasnt change. its the law of allah. theres not going to be any change in it. >> now a senior national correspondent arwa damon has reported from afghanistan. she joins me live from istanbul. what we just heard that police commander say doesnt bode well for the afghan people, doesnt suggest a more tolerant version of the taliban. and also what leverage ...

By digging in your heels on this, arent you dooming your own infrastructure bill? >> who is digging in their heels? the infrastructure bill has been passed. you have a bipartisan bill with 19 republicans. who thought that could happen? who thought that -- you know, we worked hard on that for many, many months. and the presidents team was very much involved. and the president went out and sold this around the country. why would you basically let the perfect be the enemy of the good? you have a bi...

Heels? the infrastructure bill has been passed. you have a bipartisan bill with 19 republicans. who thought that could happen? who thought that -- you know, we worked hard on that for many, many months. and the presidents team was very much involved. and the president went out and sold this around the country. why would you basically let the perfect be the enemy of the good? you have a bill right now. im not saying were not going to get the reconciliation bill whenever. >> they have leverage. th...

And 75% of that population are women and children. and frankly, there are ngos, local afghan ngos, that have been working for over the last 18—19 years, and they should be the ones that are enabled. if the international community wanted to think of a way to get aid to those afghans who need it, they should say that those ngos... what remains of them, of course, some of them are in hiding, some of their members have fled because they are concerned, but many are still on the ground, so they shou...

Different governance, give them a bit more autonomy by having aid delivered there. if that is possible, that could be a way to get back to some sort of negotiation process, but also enable some of the local actors there and give them a bit more agency. simon, very briefly, if the leverage with the assets doesnt work, the americans are already talking about drone strikes if terrorism starts to flare up again? that is the unknown question. the taliban have said they are not going to be a place, _ ...

Happened. on newsroom we had the interview with the interpreter, carl, and we keep track of his progress. he is safe. but there is just very little that can be done outside of these outside groups. >> if you 9/11 tomorrow and this situation that the united states and with very little leverage over the taliban you have people looking back on the past 12 years and the actions and the obama situation and some of the people that they swapped for bowe bergdahl are now back in charge and were told by ...

Aid, so thats day—to—day spending. so if you cut that off, _ you have got a serious problem. the other one is that they had about $9 billion to $10 billioni of foreign currency reserves - and what countries generally do with that is they use it to manage the value of their own currency. in international markets. that has been frozen - and what that can do is send currencies into freefall- and you get hyperinflation. now, we have seen a bit of that, but perhaps not| as much as we thought. so ...

If the international community wanted to think of a way to get aid to those afghans who need it, they should say that those ngos... what remains of them, of course, some of them are in hiding, some of their members have fled because they are concerned, but many are still on the ground, so they should be enabled, be it the uk or us or others, theyve worked with some of these local entities, they can turn around and use some of that leverage, turn an air bridge of aid. the uae, for example, has al...