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Want to leave? theres this 97-country agreement thats supposed to allow for this to happen, but will it? >> well, jacob, the lightest we have on that came from general mckenzieing and you played that clip a little bit ago. he think the approximately 200 -- they dont know exactly how many u.s. citizens still in the country who want to leave can if they choose to. the main reason they havent so far is in most cases according to the pentagon have decided not to leave right now. thats due to the fac...

Garbage. what they -- theyre americans stranded. theyre hostages right now. theres already talk of allowing the taliban access to their foreign reserves, allowing the taliban access to international recognition to billions in foreign currency held overseas. in exchange for allowing the rest of these americans out. you know what that is called? its called a ransom. paying ransom to terrorists. oh, by the way, the taliban and the haqqani network have been holding an american hostage, navy veteran ...

>> taliban guilty of terror attacks itself through the years, many dozens of them. barbara starr, thanks very much. joining me now to discuss is james clapper. hes former director of intelligence, led operations during a big part of those many years in afghanistan. director clapper, thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks, jim, for having me. >> secretary of state anthony blinken said yesterday the u.s. has, quote, significant leverage over the taliban to ensure cooperation on a ...

Taliban. the question is whether or not that is really leverage, and that is, again, these are some biden allies im talking to, they dont know whether or not just the money. its a lot of money, but even that is enough leverage to get the taliban to actually make good on their promises that they are going to let some of those, all of those americans get through. and one thing i just want to add quickly to what clarissa said about the way that this is going to be perceived by afghans. what i heard...

De facto government is now morphing into or evolving into a government. it has to be a government. theres good governments, bad governments and vicious governments. the taliban will be whatever the taliban is but its a government. a government has to have relations with other governments to function as a government. right now theres not a bus driver in kabul that has been paid. theres not -- nobody has been paid. if you have no money and you have no food, the people that can provide money and fo...

Mean at this stage? what do you think will be their _ mean at this stage? what do you think will be their biggest - think will be their biggest challenge in governing now? the need to aain local challenge in governing now? the need to gain local legitimacy, _ challenge in governing now? the need to gain local legitimacy, made - challenge in governing now? the need to gain local legitimacy, made do - to gain local legitimacy, made do not trust them and they need international partners and also th...

Citizens and their children outside the gate of the international airport. beer trying to smuggle them out to other mediums. here is the other thing. now they are saying we have leverage. foreign capital and reserves. the taliban have the leverage. the last i checked when you are paying so much money allowing them access in exchange for americans to be let free that they ran some strategy is now w are going pay ransom to the terrorists to get the rest of our people out of your. its outrageous. w...

Period of -- of a great deal of ambiguity. a certain amount of contestation. and all of which, by the way, gives america some leverage in asking that afghan allies get -- get -- get, you know, allowed to leave. whatever americans want to leave can leave. we have leverage with the taliban. >> i mean, this is a country which is, obviously, there is potential for huge drug trade continuing. theres -- but this is a country which has existed by -- through foreign money for a very long time. i mean, t...

Scenario the way it is going last week. today the president outlined how to extract the remaining 1 or 200 individuals from the united states who are still in afghanistan. >> and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. the taliban has made public commitments, broadcast on television, and radio across afghanistan on safe passage for anyone wanting to leave including those who worked alongside americans. we dont take them b...

How do you explain the commander-in-chief pretending about what has happened, a complete delusion. its not even like we disagree, you know, in a partisan way or on policy, this is frightening to the american people that were being told something thats not true. >> i think its very cynical strategy they are employing. they clearly believe this is a news cycle that they can imagine. >> tammy: yes, exactly. >> they believe this is a narrative they can win with some tweets and re-tweets from friendl...