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Country. i wonder, some have made the point to me that the taliban will needed a, int aid, interna aid, going forward. does that give the taliban leverage going forward? >> it gives leverage to the afghan people, actually. weve worked in afghanistan since 1988. weve worked in taliban-controlled areas and what were previously government-controlled areas. whoever is in control wants the support of local people. and the absolute key about the aid flows is that they dont go into central coffers wher...

Americans who are sitting ducks. if we dont change his plan quickly well get people killed by isis, not the taliban. judge jeanine: it seems no one is in charge. when you say we should take back the bagram air base, how do you do that? what leverage to we have when we get up and leave in the middle of the night and dont tell our nato partners we are leaving and dont even answer their phone calls, what leverage to we have to take back bagram. >> we have the finest military in the world and we sho...

The more moderate comments we got from democrats. and we heard democrats calling what happened a failure of diplomacy, a failure of intelligence, a top democrat on the senate intelligence committee who would presumably be aligned with biden, saying were going to have to ask tough questions about how this sort of thing happen, so maybe we could have expected some criticisms and some questions from perhaps more progressive democrats but he is getting it from all sides of the democratic party. inte...

Keen eye on the chaos unfolding in afghanistan. pakistan already home to hundreds of thousands of afghan refugees, and a key player in the region. on thursday, it did help to evacuate more than 1,000 people from its war-torn neighbor. cnn producer, sophia, joins me now live from islamabad. and, sophia, tell us what -- what lies ahead for pakistans relationship with the taliban in afghanistan, particularly given that its security service, the isis links there, how to navigate what is a -- well, i...

So another thing for americans and europeans to forget. unfortunately, if you live in those countries, northern parts of nigeria, for example, you cant forget because they are a part of daily life. they are a danger to you every single day. you mentioned that, and its a very good point. janet, on some of these broader questions that got caught up in the aftermath of the afghan invasion, there was an interesting quote from joe biden in which he said the idea that we are able to deal with the righ...

>> reporter: well, you know, kim, you know whats happening here, sending out signals before the fall of kabul, its been saying for many, many months, it does not have the leverage that the u.s. expects it to have. this was, when it came to pushing them, during the peace talks, spakistan said it would assist them. even now when the government, deciding whether to acknowledge the taliban as the official government of afghanistan, pakistan has backed up. pakistan has put out a more measured respons...

>> colonel, officials have been calling on the taliban to allow for safe passage of those that want to get to the airport. president biden has said that he hasnt really heard reports of harassment by the taliban. thats been contradicted by officials in his oven administration and by our own reporters, nick peyton walsh calling that tut ter nonsense. does the united states have any leverage over the taliban at this point? >> the united states does have some leverage. in a tactical sense, the minu...

They dont appear to have a great deal of leverage when dealing with the taliban, rings of a country defeated. certainly on the international stage, joe biden is taking hits, taking hits abroad, this was not a great week for him, but now he has, it sounds like on one hand doing damage control, and the other hand really sticking with what he said in his speech almost a week ago, but still addressing some of the concerns that have come up over the past week. interestingly, polls in the usa actually...

>> im not shocked by it. weve heard the reports, we had to deal with the taliban, no offensive violence against americans in afghanistan until we withdraw. trump struck that deal, biden i a party to that deal, but when he pulled out in such a sloppy way, we lost all leverage so no the taliban controls everything that were doing there. are we saying the taliban is just letting everyone through, no, they are blackmailing people , they are beating americans up. may be there not shooting them dead o...

>> we signed a surrender agreement to the taliban. >> youre talking about mike pompeo? >> yes. this collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. the taliban didnt defeat us. we defeated ourselves. >> joining me now, political strategist and biden campaign consultant and a lease jordan, msnbc political analyst. she also worked at headquarters for the nato led mission in kabul. as i welcome you both, elise, you spent time in kabul. was this deal a surrender? do you see an alternative ...