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The heroin trade to prop up the government. but if youre going to do business with the west, if youre going to have some sort of legitimacy, you are going to need the international community to play ball. and, robyn, as we know, this is perhaps the only leverage that the united states and the international community have in dealing with the taliban. >> anna coren, thanks so much for that update. so nearly a week after president joe biden declared the end to americas longest war, there are conc...

So, that begs the question, what was the last month all about? ainsley: thats great question. lawrence: the thing that they have been talking about the entire time they would somehow have leverage over the taliban because they would be -- they want some type of standing with the international community. do you think the taliban cares about the international community? and there has been double talk from this administration talking about are we going to recognize afghan their democratic elected o...

All the cash and weaponry, when our embassy wont down, we went dark. we have no eyes and ears in country. and we cant see russia, china, and iran. this is a major national security threat. i warned the administration for months to get the americans out, but also establish this isr capability, which we have none now. now, were left in this very desperate situation, a very bad foreign policy of having to negotiate with the taliban, which i always skeptical of having to do, and yeah, we do have fro...

There are frozen assets. there is the question of standing at the table. we dont have official diplomatic relations with them. theres a lot of moving pieces in a lot of potential places they could break. >> thats tenuous. youre dealing with that. the legislative agenda, we knew it was going to be hard. some say you dont have votes to spare in the senate. listen to the white house chief of staff. he says been here, done that. >> if i had a nickel for every time someone told me this package has be...

Of language and of further trials, which could be a little bit complicated, but i think, broadly speaking, if youve got really highly skilled health professionals who can show the right paperwork, then im sure it would be greatly welcome. not least, of course, because we have a shortage of the people we need, dont we? just a last thought on this, there is a potential here, eunice, isnt there, to seize the opportunity of leverage, if we are going to talk to this new taliban leadership. the econom...

Senator ben sasses as they want to talk about anything but afghanistan but americans hiding from the network dont care about polling, they want out. >> is this was going down, this investigation, they evacuate a lot of people. hearing about different things on the ground. >> chimes in on this and comes back on the delaware retreat. trying to get out of afghanistan, they are ready to go but taliban wont let them and burned up every leverage we have. as the situation on the ground deteriorated, i ...

This claim from congressman mccall which cnn has not confirmed that planes are being grounded by the taliban, what leverage does the u.s. have at that point to make sure that they can actually leave, to get the planes up and in the sky? >> right. well, i think that leverage is certainly limited. you know, if you have boots on the ground or some other kind of presence in a place like afghanistan, youre going to be able to achieve more than you would if youre not there, but having said that, one o...

To give 2 points to the taliban that we can negotiate with them. >> how much leverage do we have. we heard from the state department and the president that we have billions in foreign aide tied up. what can we do trying exert this leverage? >> it depends on the political choice that the biden administration has opted for. it could have been a different way by sending warnings and doing redlines and extracting them ourselves. the biden administration is committed to execute the taliban deal. mean...

And kudos to these brave women that are going out and protesting knowing their lives are at risk. >> yeah, theyre being met, bianna, of course, with violence. and its so worth pointing out, as nic does, that there arent women represented at the table. so theyre not women advocating for women. its the taliban advocating for women and certainly they have a very different view of that. >> yeah, and you think what the u.s. and other western countries have been saying is that we hold leverage over th...

The planes from leaving? >> were not actually sure. we dont have a global view on the situation. i have my team inside one of the places where people are being held and everybody is talking and theres not much else to do while they wait for a week. we dont have any direct line to the taliban or the u.s. government or anybody else. what i can tell you is just what we can glean from talking with people there, and we think that the negotiations were between the taliban and the charter company. we a...