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A terrorist by the united nations. the defense minister is the son of the founder of the taliban who is now deceased. the son is tied up in this. do we think these people are going to say okay, were going to open for american tourism and what can we do to establish a consul in the united states to have diplomatic relations? oh, we have economic opportunities here. we want western partners to come in. no, theyre going to focus on revenge killings and more stories of a police woman being shot in f...

Through american strength or their lack of projecting it when we had people on the ground. they are not going to be able to get people out when there are no americans there. the taliban rolled through afghanistan without having access to any of those dollars that they are saying are this, quote: leverage that they have on them. they are not extremely worried about that. now what do they have? they have the, quote, most advanced weaponry to go out there and do whatever it is they want to do in af...

Wants is international recognition and with that some money. so we have leverage over the taliban. the u.s. government, the entire international community needs to tell the taliban if they do not open international airspace to planes, then the whole rest of the negotiation is off. i mean that needs to be done urgently. and then there is the second issue of getting people out which frankly i agree with your ascend of ceo, we need the u.s. government to get involved in getting planes in there and ...

Cleared the protesters after the george floyd killing. we saw some eruptions of violence across the country and you report that he told general milley that he wanted to use the military to crack down on them saying they should shoot the -- the soldiers should shoot the protesters. tell us about that moment and what it means bigger picture of how trump was trying to use the leverage of government and the united states military to keep his hold on power. >> this is one of several examples in the b...

Many questions. benjamin hall like -- live for us, thank you. congresswoman nancy mace slamming democrats on the house oversight committee for voting against her amendment to find out what u.s. we uponly was left behind in afghanistan -- weaponry was left behind in afghanistan. >> rather than debate it they ruled it out of order. we have oversight. if we dont have oversight over what was spent in afghanistan, then who does? they want to bury their heads in the sand and cover up for bidens botche...

They actually got it back already. these are 40 years of violence against russians and then against the karzai government. there are a lot of turmoil. this is not going to be a very responsive government. i dont think we have almost any leverage. the pakistanis do. the chinese do. well have to be support you have of the refugee outflow. thats our principle goal, it seems to me. >> general barry mccaffrey, thank you both for your expertise this afternoon. we appreciate it. >> 20 years after the w...

I think the threat of hunger for a big chunk of the - population is really upon us. lots of un agencies have been warning about the shortage . of food, basic food staples in afghanistan, so there i is the possibility of leverage, i but, for instance, what the uk government has promised to give afghanistan is, - will only cover a fraction of afghan needs. - so the question of- leverage can be used. then we also have un agencies who will not be leveraging, - they will essentially be - meeting thei...

Pakistan, and others here, that he approaches them as a partner, opposed to dictating, use your leverage here, put pressure here. really, they all want the same thing, an inclusive and stable taliban government. >> let me go back to you, she talks about secretary of state blinken, what the pakistanis hope from him. talk about his stops in qatar and the defense secretaries. >> detective service lloyd austin plans to visit the countries, meet with leaders of countries that helped the u.s. evacuate...

University from the music -- you know, theyre musicians, out of the country, had visas, and our own u.s. government would not open the gate to let them in. now theyve returned, and now theyre in talibans enslavement. we know they marry off young women as young as 12, many times 14 years old. its a very sick culture. and they treat women like property. i worry about the women left behind as well. >> chris: let me pick up on this because administration officials continue to say that they believe t...

On cooperation and inducements to increase the vaccination rates. whether it is working with governors, to get out of the vaccine, that left him -- the emphasis on cooperation with governors left him slow to react when a number of republican governors in the southeast took steps that undermined public health, by banning mask man dates or banning vaccine ports. he has been very cautious about imposing vaccine mandates. yes hes done it on people directly under his control in the federal government...