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Every american soldier is gone. they are left behind any nab lines very do you think the taliban will help americans get out now? because i dont. >> it no commit one of the most infuriating things we saw this week was secretary of state anthony blinken same were goin to get americans out, were going to use our leverage. what leverage? we barely had any leverage we had 5,000 troops are the last couple weeks. what leverage do we have now? are we going to sign a mean letter from the international c...

They may be u.s. citizens who they knew they could get on the plane but could not get their family members with them. theres a very long and complicated path ahead. secretary blinken said the effort to get those people out does not finish just because u.s. military troops have left. the u.s. embassy in kabul is relocating here in qatar, and the u.s. and its allies say they will bring every lever of diplomatic and political pressure to bear to make sure that the taliban stands by its commitment t...

City to being a government, a government with an incredibly full inbox, enormous challenges of health, economy, security. and they have still yet to announce their full government. can those remaining americans be taken out? i have to say it is hard to imagine how there are still 200 americans in afghanistan who still want to be evacuated given the shear volume of effort that the united states has put in with special forces, with other operations to try to find them and get them out. and this ma...

Why those remaining folks didnt. some changed their mind at the last minute. some wanted to bring very large extended family who were not americans who couldnt get through checkpoints. some may have shown up at the airport, although i have to tell you im not familiar, and general mckenzie said he was not familiar with anyone being turned away at the gate last minute. but the fact is that we went out of our way for two full weeks to create the circumstances for any american who wanted to get to t...

The world stage, you need to do a number of things, including letting people leave who want to leave. >> anne, youre talking leverage with the taliban. your paper is asking the west to unfreese the assets of afghanistan. is there a specific plan? what would it look like? and how and when will that move forward with the taliban government beyond securing continued evacuations and dealings over essentially money? >> the plan is still in the works. weve had a couple of these large multi-countries, ...

Forward, something that i think would have obviously been unthinkable two decades ago. >> they would love to be recognized, and they needed finance. the u.s. supplied, what, 75% of the afghan governments budget. they would love world recognition. at the end of the day, i dont know how long you can say we have more leverage over the country when were not there. its the talibans decision to decide how the country will be ruled, and as you said, they have things to iron out in terms of their own di...

>> this is very, very tough. it depends on relying on some very uncertain people, especially the taliban. they say that they dont rely on them, that they will trust them once they prove that they are living up to those commitments, commitments they have made not only to the u.s. but to 100 other countries that have demanded this and the u.n. security council with, importantly, russia and china both abstaining, the rest of the security council, as well as the g-7 saying today that they have to li...

The first day in nearly 20 years where there are no american troops in afghanistan as they try to get the americans who were left behind out. >> we continue our mission to get them out. it is just shifted from a military mission to a diplomatic mission. we have considerable leverage over the taliban to insure any remaining american citizen will be able to get out. >> now president biden says in a statement i have asked the secretary of state to lead the continued coordination with our internatio...

Network was there, and the message of all of this was clear, the taliban are in charge once again for the first time since october 2001, and they control every search of afghanistan except for a very small portion held by resistance fighters. what they said in the press conference, they tried to strike a pragmatic tone, and this new taliban government is trying to show the world it can be a responsible member of the international community. they are very eager to get humanitarian aid in the coun...

Taliban has to get people out, its the same leverage the united states and frankly a number of other countries with equities in afghanistan, its diplomatic. the taliban would like to get a government up and running. to do is that, theyre going to need money. they dont have much of. theyre broke. they would like to have assets unfroze and loans unfrozen. the united states can play a role in that. they would like the u.n. to help. the united states can play a role in that. you know, thats an arms ...