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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 looks like im planning how to break into it! she laughs. thousands of workers, who were known as sky boys at the time, raced to finish the construction of the building in just over a year. b...

You know, i think the intelligence community, cia in particular, is going to figure out a way to get there, but is not going to be the same, we will not have military bases and will not have the leverage to extract our people. i dont think the taliban needs our money. they have china, they have russia and pakistan, all benefactors, and they have had a relationship with iran, which has provided the taliban with material assistance. so we are in a very bad place. we had leverage, we had bagram air...

Other pakistani officials. i think it was significant that yesterday pakistani official had meetings with taliban and n qatar, sort of a lower level meeting that seems to have opened the door to what wye are witnessing today. historically, pakistan has had, you know, at times good, at times frosty, at times opaque relationships with the taliban. but of all the sort of bordering nations here, pakistan perhaps has the greatest understanding of the taliban and potentially i think leverage is too st...

Taliban as the legitimate government there. how long will the taliban use the presence of siv holders and american citizens to leverage, to extort, to tax america in to recognizing them legitimately in exchange for the release of our people who we have done a horrific job bringing home. will: as is no surprise the biden administration has tried to pivot and blame this situation on the trump administration saying backlog of siv holders. whether or not that is true, they had plenty of time to addr...

Terrorist organization. neil: you know what i worry about, don, you know the area far better than i that if the taliban doesnt get what it wants, assets frozen or unfrozen, they can up the ante and a lot of those folks become hostages and we are reliving that nightmare, how -- how likely do you fear that could be? >> unfortunately i see that as very likely scenario. basically they have all of us back mind enemy lines right now as potential hostages and thats worth a lot of money to them and wort...

>> he also promised the allies that we would get them out as well. not necessarily that we would get them out of there. okay, joe biden claims he has leverage here. and so i argue, we dont have any leverage. 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. thats the only option we seem to have. so what if it becomes isis beheading people. we have seen the videos and all of us have watched them. smack you know, it...

Eunice, isnt there, to seize the opportunity of leverage, if we are going to talk to this new taliban leadership. the economy is tanking, three quarters of the budget has gone because it was foreign aid money. we hear reports that, for example, cooking oil has just suddenly gone up 63%. this is a government that, however much it taxes imports and exports at land borders, and however much it boosts heroin — er, opium production, which ends up on the streets of other countries including the uk a...

Victory and says there will be no surrender. in kabul, these women are refusing to surrender their rights. 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. turning first to this visit of the head of the pakistani intelligence services, the i...

A lot of countries have removed embassy from kabul and establishing a shadow embassy again in doha, qatar. thats where that will take place and there will be a number of initiatives in the un security council, one already led by the u.s., france and the uk and then theres even a group of 100 countries that have all come together to have a diplomatic initiative as well. each of them warning, encouraging whatever, the taliban about the nature of the governance that they will exercise and i think r...

Their own countries out of the country of afghanistan. so we were pushing on the state department, however, the state department drug their feet and we know they really didnt start a concerted effort until about the middle of july in getting those sivs going. so we were way behind the power curve and it was an issue that we raised very early in the spring and we continued to raise today. i dont know how we solve this problem. i do know there are many charitable organizations that are working on ...