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>> there is certainly interpretation thats are held up and others that are equally valid in islamic law that are not. why? thats a public policy decision. >> reporter: and thats exactly where the taliban say they are changing. they want to engage on a global stage. >> they also have to take into account relationships that they have with powerful actors outside of the country. >> reporter: that leaves the u.s. and its allies with one key piece of leverage -- international recognition and legitima...

Diplomatic correspondent, caroline hawley. for two decades the west fought these men, now they are calling these men, now they are calling the shots. and western leaders must work out the best way to deal with them so they cause the least harm in power. i think there is absolutely no choice but to develop channels to communicate with them at senior level, over how they are now going to afghanistan. what now going to afghanistan. what levera . e now going to afghanistan. what leverage does _ now ...

Government. but it is simply too soon to tell. >> how much does financial leverage have to do with holding the taliban to what they say at least publicly at this point? you have "the washington post" reporting ten days ago the biden administration froze billions in afghan reserves. do you get the sense, sir, that cash can be used as leverage to get them to comply? >> it is one element of the leverage, not the only one, but it is important because with cash you pay salaries, with cash you can pro...

Famine before the taliban takeover. the ousted government of president ashraf ghani was almost entirely dependent on foreign funding. as much as 75% of state spending came from the outside world. that helped pay for everything, from security forces and government officials, to schools that offered many girls in education for the first time, and hospitals and healthcare. now the taliban are in charge, whos going to pay the bills? could western aid with strings attached moderate the militants, orw...

Earlier in our show, how do you get allies and americans out without an airport after the 31st since the administration has continued to promise that our commitment doesnt end after the military does finally withdraw? >> all americans who want to leave afghanistan and who meet the security threshold to lead afghanistan can leave afghanistan before august 31st. we are not going to leave americans behind. we have also made substantial advances in evacuating our afghan allies, more than 100,000 per...

The president apparently has some line of communication open to the taliban. why not just lay down a marker and say hey, we need another couple of weeks to get our people out? >> because sadly that was not the agreement that was struck between the biden administration and the taliban. there was originally the september 11th deadline. the taliban were okay with it. then president biden didnt like the optics. he moved it forward to august 31st, and the taliban said okay thats the new deadline. if ...

Stage. >> they also have to take into account relationships that they have with powerful actors outside of the country. >> reporter: that leaves the u.s. and its allies with one key piece of leverage. international recognition and legitimacy. hanging in the balance, the 20 years of gains in rights and liberties for the women and girls of afghanistan. cnn, london. three safe and effective vaccines are available right here in the u.s. to help in the pandemic. so why are some people turning to me...

A suicide bombing at kabul airport. the pentagon wrapped up a briefing a few moments ago. watch this. >> i can confirm as more information has come in that two high profile isis targets were killed and one was wounded, and we know of zero civilian casualties. without specifying any future plans, i will say that we will continue to have the ability to defend ourselves and leverage o over the horizon capability to conduct counterterrorism operations as needed. >> cnn pentagon correspondent barbara...

Respectful way. we will have leverage in this world today. >> reporter: and in a couple hours this whole group is going to march, going to do a loop down this way, through black lives matter plaza, and then down right straight past the white house as they head toward the national mall. this is one of many groups out and about in washington today. there is another rally and concert planned over at the lincoln memorial, a make good trouble event as well as folks gathering at freedom plaza to call ...

>> peter, the focus right now is to get the remaining americans out of the country, the afghan partners out of the country, and as i said in response to phils question, this is not a preferred relationship, or a situation that we would have designed if we had started from scratch. that is very clear. but right now, we need to continue to coordinate and that is the focus for the next couple of days. >> the last one, you said that we will have a great deal of leverage over the taliban after we lea...