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Entirely dependent on foreign funding. as much as 75% of state spending came from the outside world, which helped to pay for everything from security forces to government officials to schools that offered girls and education for the first time and hospitals and health care. now the taliban are in charge, who is going to pay the bills? could western aid with strings attached moderates in militants or will they look elsewhere for support? earlier this week, the taliban proudly tweeted a photo of t...

Some leverage on them. im reminded, some, when i look at it today, you know we department like the government that was moving into vietnam so many years ago. but still, now, today, we have a good relationship with that government. were doing trade and having other kinds of business there. my hope, i dont know, but i continue to hope that we can in the future have a better course for us, for our relationship, and for the afghanistan people. >> congressman gregory meeks, the chair of one of the mo...

Official, well, they need our money. they want our respect. they want to be recognized, so theyll have to change. gail, first to you. you have to look at the rhetoric and the reality. right now it doesnt give you a lot of confidence, but what we can be confident in is that the world has leverage. the world bank has frozen its disbursement. it has $9 million in assets that the taliban will need. it will need money. it wants to show especially as it goes up against isis. it wants to show that it c...

Ten years ago. theres a $5 million reward for information that could lead to his capture. can you walk us through what the u.s./taliban relationship looks like right now? >> alicia, it is exactly as jonathan sketched out. its a relationship of convenience. right now they have something of control over kabul and most of afghanistan although i say right now because that could change. and so the u.s. government is in a position to work with the people who have the most power and leverage on the gro...

How -- in how that leverage is used. >> thank you so much and just to be clear, your family fled afghanistan with nothing but the clothes on their back. just before the taliban had come into control. so your family knows the hardship. and you have learned and studied and now examine the risk, present day, which is very real to the people who are left behind, especially the women. so we will stay on this story, and thank you for your perspective. >> thank you. >> all right. so we have an afghanis...

Change, the taliban who kept you captive for eight months. have they changed? >> i think theres an opportunity to try. i think gayle is right. theres tremendous leverage. force the taliban and use the economics and money and force them to change, but halil haqqani is a member of the family who kidnapped me and they are still holding an american today. we are leaving behind tens of thousands of afghan allies and friends of mine who are desperate, trying to get to the airport and cant make it. mik...

0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and ...

One more thing i would say, we have an enormous amount of leverage that includes economic leverage, leverage that we will make clear to they taliban as it relates to coordination continuing to get american citizens and partners out. >> reporter: there is reports of explosions happening throughout the evening and kabul and some reports indicate its the beginning of a process of the u.s. military beginning just dont like to destroy a comment on the ground. >> secretary psaki: we know it has to tak...

Patients listening to people criticize joe biden about this, when they are supporting a guy, that when he was president, not only did he do the same thing, he invited the taliban, tried to invite the talibans camp david. and by the way, all of them hate refugees. they dont want refugees anywhere near the united states. so, i think the democratic party needs to stay united around our support, of these refugees from afghanistan, and you this is the leverage of international aid and, money to help ...

Personnel have lost their life and so the safety issue is even more on the minds of all of us, so it is going to be complex. the president needs all of our support as he works through a very difficult situation that actually began long before he became president and the stage was set for tragedy. here we are, everybody feared this happening and where do we go from here. be as safe as we can for military and try to get the americans out. >> colonel jack jacobs was on and he floated that one of th...