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The taliban in order to do that. i am not going to label that partnership or anything other than continuing coordination. we again believer we have a great deal of leverage in order to implement that commitment. >> on other issue, there is going to be security and terrorism. could you see this kind of mutual interests agenda continuing with that? >> i dont want to get ahead of where we are. we are committed to continue to deliver humanitarian assistance of the people of afghanistan. there are a ...

And go to school in afghanistan but someday i hope she will understand that this was in her interests and it was my main concern, how can we go through the airport. not only was my concern for my daughter but also my concern for my daughter but also my wife and elderly parents. again countries like the qatari state, they have the leverage and influence and that can be part of a very peaceful evacuation process, the humanitarian corridor. and i also know that i am the lucky one and i am very grat...

Over the administration because the administration wont leave. he said he was up all night with american citizens that were turned away at multiple gates. moulton and hire are wrong. all these people including americans become leverage for the taliban. we cannot leave this country without our people. what dont they understand? that is the american east those. we dont leave -- what are they thinking? steve: joe biden did say i got a back-up plan. asked the pentagon guys if we are not going to fin...

Flights leaving kabul international airport every 39 minutes but there are possibly as many as 1,500 americans who remain in the country. the biden administration still working to keep its solemn promise to evacuate every american who wants out but also saying its difficult to track, in real-time, every u.s. citizen in afghanistan. but how the u.s. will ensure passage for afghans after the last u.s. plane leaves remains a question. >> they will not be forgotten. we certainly have -- um -- points...

To statements that are for p.r. purposes. so i can tell you that there is no way that anybody can say, i can trust or the taliban can say anything about others. what we need to do is keep on engaging. if we cut off all ties, if we abandon afghanistan, if we leave the country and the 35 million people in it at the mercy of we dont know what -- >> hasnt the u.s. done exactly that? it has very little leverage now. >> the u.s. has been in afghanistan for 20 years, has done -- i have been witness to ...

There are possibly as many as 1,500 americans who remain in the country. the biden administration till working to keep its solemn promise to evacuate every american who wants out but also saying its difficult to track in realtime every u.s. citizen in afghanistan. but how the u.s. will ensure passage for afghans after the last u.s. plane leaves remains a question. >> they will not be forgotten. we certainly have points of incentive and points of leverage with a future afghan government to help m...

Of americans who may get left behind although theyre committed to getting them all out but very importantly also people with visas for the united states who worked alongside the americans who saimply will not e able to get out come what may their chances of getting to the airport are really very slim there will be alternative method dolls and points of leverage and pressure they can put on a taliban dominated in kabul, people want to leave afghanistan v the visas to leave afghanistan particularl...

Time, but do you think we have no other choice but give the taliban some opportunity here to show that they can get control, do we use the frozen assets as a way to get tough, not allow an al qaeda or isis to sort of get safe harbor? clearly isis-k has safe harbor here. how much do we attempt to work with the taliban versus against them? >> we have no choice but work with the taliban, as long as theyre in apparent control of kabul and other major cities. what leverage do we have? i suspect there...

Of leverage. this is our view over time. that includes economic leverage, leverage that we will make clear to the taliban as it relates to coordination to continue to get american citizens and our partners out. >> there have been reports of explosions happening throughout the afternoon in kabul and reporting to indicate this is the beginning of a process of the u.s. military beginning to destroy equipment on the ground. >> i would defer you to the u.s. military on specific steps of their retro g...

Through afghanistan into iran and central asia. the recognition and the travel and the trade ties would be helpful. and then we do have one other potential area of leverage. and that is the fact that not necessarily theyre rank and file, but many of the senior members of the taliban are actually mafia organizations with significant financial interests. and those financial interests, the mafia side, the drug trafficking, consumer goods, moving gold, so forth, those involve significant money laund...