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And the taliban promised in return not to harbour terrorists as they had during the last rule. education for girls is another key demand of the west, along with wider human rights, issues that wont particularly concern beijing. the difficulty with using economic leverage is that it only works if the target of your leverage has no other options. and in this case, the taliban does have the option of looking to the regional countries for support, and those countries, china, russia, iran, pakistan, ...

Giving any list at that nature going on. from what i understand, the list and the names giving to people that we want to get out right now, not that we will worry about letting them have access to before. it is beyond what im aware of. but again, like i said a second ago we want to have leverage over the taliban to not take that kind of reprisals after we leave, then we have to have something to leverage with and that means give and take. so there are some things unpalatable, but listen we have ...

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They will continue to have a diplomatic presence on the ground. and the u.s. can rely on the fact that they have relationships with the taliban to be able to get people out, to continue those evacuations. certainly it will be much more difficult, but it will still be possible. and dont forget, the u.s. will have leverage even though that leverage will be less without u.s. troops on the ground. we still have financial leverage with the taliban. the u.s. has frozen $9 billion in afghan central ban...

Will we try to bring the known terrorists to justice before we leave the country? >> peter, the focus is on getting the remaining american citizens who want to depart out of the country. 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. i think thats very clear but right now we need to coordinate. thats the focus for a couple days. >> you said we think well have a great deal of leverage of the t...

We have to coordinate with them in order to get people out. we will continue to do that. >> trace: but in fact an equal partner and more than an equal partner and we are trusting them, trusting them with our people. >> they are not in equal partner. they just, the reality is they own all of kabul. bill and so they are more than equal partners. >> it is not an equal partner. it is the reality they are there and they alternatively dont work with them at all and would do to make tremendously compou...

Sharing of intel? >> look, right now the absolute mission number one is to get all of our people out as safely as we can and keep all of the rest of the american forces and the allied forces safe as well so what happened today if there is any way we can keep it from happening, that is what we need to do. look in that we have to come to grips. we lost this war. the fact that the taliban is actually willing to cooperate with us and work together with us to any degree is something we should absolut...

Americans out. were over 5,100 americans that have been evacuated since august 14th. 6,000 was the estimate that secretary of state tony blinken offered early her. then the question is what happens after august 31st? the president indicated that efforts to get people out would continue. but without the military there, what does that look like? the taliban, you heard psaki say this several times, this is not a matter of trusting them. they believe they have leverage over the taliban to facilitate...

Negotiating with the taliban and saying were going to get these people out this way or is that a fools errand? >> well theyre going to have no but to negotiate with the taliban. but as everyone has pointed out, the ball is really in the talibans court as to whether they want to play ball or not. there is only a certain areas of leverage that the united states has and those sources of leverage arent that strong. one is the goal of international aid that the taliban would like to have because 80% ...

Lose all our leverage except for the hope that the taliban want to be a member of the world community last time one country recognize them sued on whos saying and they were perfectly fine without nothingness change. thank you so much. we appreciate your insight, dont stop. the decade the deadliest day for our troops, we get reaction from our family members next.