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Yes. and theres always been quite a close relationship between sections in pakistan, particularly their intelligence services, and the taliban. i mean, what this actually does is give the west a bit more leverage. what the taliban most need is having the economy sorted out and that means money so, at the moment, there are about £10 million worth of assets frozen in foreign banks. they could do money back and they could also deal with western made which would help them get off the ground. on the...

I think that the cia is going to figure out a way to get there, but its not going to be the same and we wont have military bases and we wont have the leverage to extract our people. and i dont think the taliban needs our money. they have china, russia, pakistan, they have had a relationship with iran that has provided them with material assistance. we are in a bad place. we have somema leverage. we had all of that. and that was our leverage. if we had evacuated civilians and at that time, we wou...

And pakistan? >> reporter: yeah, this is the most senior pakistan official, general hamid, the isi chief, pakistans intelligence chief. there has long and perhaps murky as you would expect with an intelligence investigation relations with the taliban. i dont think anyone really knows quite the depth and length, if you will, of the connections between pakistans intelligence service and the taliban. but you know, i think its broadly understood that through historical connections there is some infl...

With the taliban. pakistan has always denied that, but it acknowledges having some leverage. theres a lot of stuff speculation that this is about the creation of a new government in afghanistan. its been nearly three weeks since the taliban took over kabul. whatever the cause, its prolonging this period of deep uncertainty about the future that many afghans are facing. this is the one place yet to be fully captured by the taliban. weve got conflicting reports coming out from there, but the talib...

Speak. so, pakistan really holds the key and i think pakistans generals are confident that they can can vent members of the international community that the taliban run afghanistan and the best way forward is to engage them and support them, to help them stabilise afghanistan, partly because the threat of terrorism from groups like isis k. pakistan thinks its in a very advantageous position to shape how the world engages afghanistan and how afghanistans government is shaped and how stable afghan...

Thats a lot of leverage mr. secretary and offering them economic assistance that sounds like ransom where i grew up. i dont know. what do i know, i wasnt at the top of my class at west point. >> sean, we had leverage. leverage was our soldiers on the grounds places like bagram air force base, messagess from the administration made clear it would impose costs on them and the capability to deliver that, a demonstrated capability that was leverage. im very concerned. i dont see that we have any lev...

Administration is headed the opposite direction theyve give up 100 percent of the leverage we had. >> reassume part of your plan included the extraction of our military equipment c-17 blackhawk helicopters drones munitions billions of dollars worth of armored vehicles. i assume the drum created takin that home are destroying it, correct? >> absolutely did we wanted to do several things that we were clearle we would from 50,000 to 8600 positive at the conditions we got to 474800 we paused observe...

Diplomacy and american power. this administrations headed the exactly the opposite direction given up 100% of the leverage we had. >> sean: i assume mr. secretary part of your plan included the extraction of our military equipment, c17s, black hawk helicopters, drones, munitions, billions of dollars worth of up armored vehicles. i assume the trump plan including taking that em who or destroying it. correct? >> sean, it absolutely did. we wanted to do several things and we were clear when we went...

Actions speak louder than words? >> he certainly did, sean, we all did. but the truth of the matter is we didnt really need to. they could see it, they knew leaders all across the world could see america was determined and willing to use american power and needed to do so to protect american interest. president biden to make a fateful decision a political arbitrary date to get out. everything flowed with the fateful decision. we never agreed to that with the taliban, we said there needed to be a...

Another symptom of how poorly the biden administration and specifically this president along with the senior military leadership of our nation put together such a haphazard policy and evacuation process that it was essentially a route, much less a surrender, much less a negotiated surrender and were now paying the consequences. what do you mean you have derogatory information? the reality is, we should have known who is on every one of those flights and they should have been americans, siv holde...