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Chris: you say very little leverage you just heard jake sullivan say we have a lot of leverage with international pressure diplomatic pressure and especially financial pressure because we in the western allies and frozen billions of dollars in assets that the taliban will very much need to continue to do business. do not see that as enormous leverage? >> they have other sources of revenue like the connie one - - the her connie network may have other sources of revenue and of course they are not ...

Lets attack the bad guys, lets bomb them. lets get this. come on, team. lets charge up. >> i didnt say that. >> that is what this is. >> no, everybody here -- >> everybody hates losing a war. nobody likes losing a war. >> im -- >> you cant read my mind. >> this is the leverage we. have afghanistan doesnt have a dollar in the bank. they cant pay -- china will ru the day they take over afghanistan as a puppet state. they will have the same face as anyone else. afghanistan has a government. how do ...

>> [inaudible] there is a confluence, but then there is some leverage. im not quite sure whats you made reference to. when we have a hurricane coming to that area, its not unusual for it to cause flooding. there is a lot of pressure on that levee system, but it look like this in the federal, and the reports that have come in so far. the big levee system, there is quite a few levee systems from landfall to new orleans that have problems -- >> so talk to me about the stage of hurricane response an...

Who is left, how many people are we talking, hundreds, thousands? >> the reason secretary blinken had to address this is there has been continuing discussion up until a couple days ago about the u.s. maintaining a small presence at the airport. thats the first time we heard him knock that down for good, that there wouldnt be any small presence there. the reason this was even under discussion is because there will be some americans most likely who will be left in that country after the final mili...

Taliban and said, you know, we would like to do business with you. you have all kinds of things we can partner on, possibly help finance the rebuilding of your country, and by the way, there are some wonderful minerals in the ground that maybe we might be able to work out a deal on extracting. i think if that was not in play, maybe this assurance that the international community says it has from the taliban might feel meatier, but nations like russia and china seem like theyre giving the taliban...

Mark: congressman crenshaw, the terrorists are empowered by nation state enemies of ours are empowered too. they are not going to take joe biden seriously, i am worried most about communist china, taiwan, putin and ukraine and israel. and iran. what are your thoughts? >> i think that is right. there is strategic plunders here and tactical blunders as well. from a strategic stand point, these competitors like china, and iran. that is always looking for leverage over the united states, and for tho...

And what does political and diplomatic pressure on the taliban look like considering the taliban will be in control of afghanistan. >> all we heard are vague declarations that the united states government is not going to leave these people behind and will work after the august 31st deadline to get americans out. i think we dont know how thats going to happen. its been vague. defense officials i spoke with said there will be two lines of effort. one is diplomatic and the other will be economic. d...

Hearing from white house officials over the weekend in particular, there is considerable uncertainty about what happens, what a diplomatic presence looks like for the united states without the military on the ground even if there is one. secretary of state blinken saying its not likely well continue an embassy. theres leverage on the taliban to continue to keep pressure on them and continue the evacuation of afghans. clearly this is a decision scrutinized for however long joe biden is president ...

Me say i was shocked that the president released a paper statement on the end of the afghan war. he says he is going to speak to the nation tomorrow but a paper statement i find that very strange. i thought that the secretary of state statements which was vaped and he was looking slightly off camera it looked like a hostage video. it was not the kind of production values that you would expect for such moment in time. what he said is interesting in the sense that they have now regrouped. they are...

Get at least promises behind the scenes of taliban of some sort of dangling a cooperation with regard to repatriation of americans, this is an unholy brotherhood that needs to be looked -- brood that needs to be look into. >> until we get to august 31 deadline. >> you may see another rocket attack. i would be surprised if there is not. depends on how much intelligence taliban is passing to us. real problem begins september 1. that is when afghanistan is fully under taliban control. hundreds of a...