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Next? yes, absolutely. for foreign companies looking| foreign companies looking either to enter the market or continue operations, and already in the market, there will be significant challenges that they will have to face, we assess these from an operational standpoint and also from exposure in terms of reputational risks. companies operating in afghanistan will have to start thinking very carefully about what it means to navigate an environment with direct engagement with the taliban. notjust ...

Have to send somebody down there and put a finger in his chest, an american and let him know this is what we intend to do. we are determined to safeguard our citizens and our afghan friends who worked with us. thats it. and you will pay a price for it if you dont cooperate and facilitate this movement. >> harris: the other layering -- ill move on after this but i want to get this piece of the puzzle in. you mentioned they want us gone as soon as possible. of course they do. they are doing the ch...

Again, not taking the talibans word for it. we are assessing, we are closely watching. and we are being very clear about the capacities and the capabilities we have at hand should they be needed. of course, thats not our objective. brian: pretty amazing. no one has high expectations for the taliban wanting international acceptance. right now the best move we have. maybe the maximum leverage we have is money. we were -- we are in control of the money. and so far we understand we have frozen centr...

And theyve been told to go back to kabul and wait. thats not acceptable. we need to bring people in and take care of them at the airport even if it takes several weeks. >> how do they get there? how do they get to the airport? >> we have some leverage with the taliban here, too. we obviously need a clear message to the taliban, do not interfere with our troops at the airport. do not interfere with people coming to the airport. the taliban want us to leave as soon as possible. and i think if we t...

Makes about the future and that we have to wait and watch and see, and thats all that much of the international community can do right now. being on the ground, is there anything, though, that you believe, any pressure points from the international community on the taliban that may be successful in ensuring that women and girls can try to hang on to the advances that they have made? >> thats the right type of question that journalists should be asking about women right now, right. the point is t...

In iran, we gave them all that cash and they are not letting us inspect the way we were supposed to do. we know what it looks like when we cant do what was promised, will they get to the table? >> kayleigh: john james, what is our leverage, if anything? >> john: take lessons from the previous administration, with this administration, obama administration, we show you can go from prison to the palace. previous administration, go from threatening american lives from the frontlines straight to hell...

We and other countries would do is set forth the standards. the one thing obviously is that we want the taliban not to traffic in terrorism. what is going to become of those people they let out in prison, and you mentioned the human rights of women and you mentioned how are they going to deal with the people that used to work with the u.s. and afghan government, and i think we should not trust them with any of these things but keep our eyes open, and we have given up a lot of our leverage, and t...

>> future afghan government that upholds the rights of its people, the doesnt harbor terrorists and protect the basic rights of its people including basic fundamental right of half of its population, women and girls, that is a governments we would be able to work with. laura: you mentioned your sources from earlier. based on what you are hearing in real time in the intel community do you have any confidence what did price just described will happen? >> let me step back and say this is a classic ...

Abided by that deal, but everything that happened afterwards, over 20 years, made the taliban stronger, made u.s. leverage weaker, and the exact terms of that negotiation, laid out arms, enter into a power-sharing deal with a successor government, was what the trump administration rightly, to my mind, sought in 2019 and secured in 2020. we had that in 2001, and the scenes that were seeing right now would not be happening. there is a sense in washington that whats happening right now is a result ...

You can quote guantanamo bay entirely, and obama/biden america iran gets cash, some to go to fund state terrorism as leading state sponsor of terrorism. it is pathetic. taliban getting weapons. weve given $83 billion to this endeavor and weapons are in the handss of the taliban. this is obama/biden liberal america. not a picture to be embraced by majority of the country. >> harris: we need leverage back, we dont have leverage on the ground once we pull out. i believe in our military and i know t...