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Protesting is a brave move in uncertain times. reports taliban used tasers against them may be a hint of what they face in the new old afghanistan. dan johnson, bbc news. our correspondent secunder kermani is in the afghan capital kabul and has the latest on that visit by the pakistani intelligence chief. well, turning first to this visit of the pakistani intelligence services, the isi, certainly pakistan has been fielding requests to help with the evacuation of foreign nationals and those eligi...

Manifest and can be done in third-party country before they came to the u.s. but what leverage do we have with the taliban to try and get these folks moving and get these planes flying, very, very troubling and frankly probably going to get worse as the days go by. mike: jessica, next saturday marks 20 years since september 20th, 11 adabbings do you worry about the propaganda 20 years later? >> i certainly worry about it any time frankly that there are extremist terrorists in charge of the count...

Yes. thank you so much. back down on the ground, there are a few other closely—guarded secrets. siobhan macshane runs an exclusive access—all—areas tour. something you may not know that we have here in the empire state building is an old, abandoned bank vault. i most enjoy bringing guests down here and seeing the expression of surprise. you would never imagine there being a bank vault in the empire state building. but if you cant afford the $1160 price tag that comes with that tour, heres ...

Other areas of the region. they have the leverage. the taliban hasag the leverage n this. and beyond that, we know for a fact theyre now in close communication with china, with iran, with russia, with others that a want to go in there and, one, give the united states of america a greater black eye, but, two, be able to extract whatever they want from that region of afghanistan. jason: yeah. one of the few natural resources in afghanistan, a big copper mine, but the chinese have been controlling ...

Get more information on it but it seems like the door is kind of closing for the prospect that we are not going to have to send more people in to get those people who have been given rightful passage to come here, americans that have been left behind to get out of afghanistan before it comes taliban controlled state and we have no leverage anymore. mike: alex, does this feel to you like the beginnings of a hostage crisis? >> i think it is a hostage crisis. i think its not a question of when we h...

Have leverage over the taliban. i have ave hard time seeing tha. if youre an american thats still in afghanistan and not l able to get out of the countr, what in the world are these people supposed to do? >> the administration, the state department, they have zero leverage over the taliban. they have this fake perception that because they control some of the dollars of the afghanistan government and theyre locking those up, that they have all this control over them, theyre going to be able to tw...

Jake is talking about financial aid to the taliban is because we left a lot of americans behind and right now theres not many cards left to play to get the americans home and get our al gain allies home other than the economic card and we can end up putting a lot of money in the talibans pocket to get our remaining americans out. thats why this crisis is far from over. we have a lot of americans that still need to come home and friends of ours that helped us and need to come to the quite and thi...

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The $1160 price tag that comes with that tour, heres a little teaser of what you would learn. the vault is made of pure, solid steel and weighs so much that it would be almost impossible to remove it, at this point, from the basement. this actually belonged to one of our original tenants from 1931 that was on the second floor. and the bank knew that they had a lot of leverage with the building, being it the great depression, so they demanded that the building put in a bank vault for them. it loo...

American behind, and he also promised our allies that we would get them out, too. not necessarily they would come here, we would get them the hell out of there. joe biden did not act, he did not move sooner than he could have. he claims, though, that he has a leverage here. jen psaki claims we have leverage. i argue we dont have any leverage. they have americans. they are called hostages. where i grew up, we call them hostages. we talk about financial aid, where i grew up, we call that ransom. s...