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Terrorized anyone who doesnt comport to their version of sharee a law. but we were about to see the biden administration hand them a mountain of leverage on a silver platter in the form of american citizens that are now hostages and then pay them ransom in the form of humanitarian aid as they lurch towards recognizing this islamic em rates. and i just got a message today from a middle east ambassador that said the message across the middle east is jihad has won and democracy has lost. thats wher...

Forward to potentially continue some sort of diplomatic effort with the united states, and thats economic. its money. the afghan government has been heavily reliant on foreign money for years now. if the taliban are going to take over that country, theyre going to need that foreign money if they want to keep the country afloat. that is the one piece of leverage the u.s. has. each side has some leverage over the other one. >> it is always about money. courtney, raf, peter, thank you. i want to ...

I will note we had prior conversations before the last couple weeks. so its obviously a different form at this point in time that will continue. thats part of what the president asked the secretary of state and the state department to pursue. >> ron clain said i dont know if well recognize their government as legitimate. you talked about the leverage that the u.s. holds over the taliban. is that one of the points of leverage? is that under consideration? >> theres no rush to recognition. it will...

Making clear for american citizens, he says there is no deadline. they will continue to work with the taliban and these american citizens to get them out of afghanistan should they want to leave. some 100 or 200 or so. now, of course how does this work? that is very much an open question. this is a diplomatic mission, not a military mission. but the u.s. government says that they do have some leverage against the taliban, some of that is financial, some of course is just in terms of a reputation...

And his promises. >> neil: corr magginis. thanks. one of the key taliban heads of this multi-tiered government that isnt formed yet wants to make overtures to the world central banks, that they theyre a good investment and that theyre trying to curry favor with the world financial community. obviously that is the leverage the administration talks about to curry favor from us and help us get people out of the country. you pause that against attacks since we left and horrific stories even worse th...

Prospect, the ability to get them out going forward. so how will they do it? the presidents national security adviser saying among the items theyre working on right now to execute those evacuations would be getting charter flights in there from other countries in the region and working with other countries in the region to allow for the ground passage or for others to get into the neighboring countries to get evacuated from there. all of this relies on continued cooperation from the taliban. the...

With the possible daylight between some of them especially the defense department and the white house? >> well look, dana, i think the number one thing we still have to focus on this administration does and congress is accountability, holding hearings, who made decisions when but getting our citizens out safely as congressman gallagher mentioned. we have lost almost all of our leverage when the u.s. military departed. again, really a sickening feeling that we had 6,000 marines and soldiers who w...

>> greg: this administration keeps saying we have this enormous leverage, but it feels like we are basically telling them to extort us, we are actually being our own extortionists, feel free to hamper the withdrawal until we give you money is kind of what we are saying, go ahead, we are going to give you money if you enable us to get these people out. before we have treasure but they have blood. we found out the majority of the interpreters, other u.s. visa applicants were left behind in afghani...

Trying to help people get out of the country yourself, elliot. >> its going to be very difficult. you know, weve heard a lot about how the administration has this leverage over the taliban right now with regards to aid. what i fear is that the taliban also has a lot of leverage over the united states right now because we have more american citizens in the country today than were left behind in, for instance, tehran in 1979. so i think, you know, if i were the president, i would be very concerned...

Those americans out and fulfill that promise that president biden made. >> sean: we have no leverage. he lied. we have none.ve zero. oh, we got a hundred other countries that are joining with us to pressure them. they dont care. theyre terrorists. all right, thank you both. >> resolution? >> sean: yeah, go ahead pete. >> im saying you just put it up. yes, theyre very afraid of that u.s. resolution that we will drop on them as theyre killing people for playing music and women for being women. yea...