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Evacuated some hundred thousand people from around the world last year with covid, to avoid the responsibility for evacuation 3 weeks ago they convinced the secretary to sign a document which is not been sent to congress yet essentially eliminating the crisis and contingency responsible euro which is responsible for evacuations, they were told kabul could happen and they backed away from it so to me and to see the president on nationally and blame intelligence analysts who cant talk policy and t...

Getting people out of of azban tan in the coming weeks. it is a panic situation. the afghan security officials didnt fight to the death. they evaporated in the face of taliban messaging and negotiations city to city. the senior political leadership has left the country and the common people, that includes 20 million women and girls, one would assume are looking at the dire consequences of falling under the control of the taliban. so theres going to be millions of people fleeing across the border...

We may not recognize them. the chinese clearly will do so probably the russians, the iranians, variety of other powers so i dont think we have a lot of leverage. weve given up most leverage so its talking about the strong diplomatic effort after we give way to most of the elements that would make diplomatic effort strong. >> you wrote something last month about how ousted afghan president ghani told you that he had a strategy for supporting and leading the resistance of the taliban and cut and r...

Collective interest to do that. and i think thats the kind of decision that we have to make if you want to protect their people. it will be costly. thats part of international reality these days. there is a lot of talk about the likes of the us and the uk using the proceeds. it is and the uk using the proceeds. it is a case of and the geopolitics of russia, china, iran and the geopolitics of russia, china, iran are and the geopolitics of russia, china, iran are now and the geopolitics of russia,...

Execution of it a horrible embarrassment so how should this have gone? >> this is what the negotiations in doha were for and the assurances we had on the sidelines, it was to use what leverage we had in order to institute a power sharing agreement in order to have some faction of a blended power government in kabul with probably reduced authority and more authority in the provincial areas, greater regional autonomy. but that went out the window. as soon as that ball started rolling and the talib...

Environment abruptly off limits and under the control of a hostile reseem. the counterterrorism posture went from problematic with the u.s. withdrawal to extraordinarily bad with the taliban in full control." according to one veteran intelligence officer who served as a cia base chief in afghanistan "suddenly one wonders if we will go entirely dark. its like a bad dream." we start with some of our favorite reporters and trends. helene cooper, jonathan lemiere, and retired four-star general barry...

Government. >> bret: mr. representative, i hate to interrupt you, you know the taliban dont have a great history when it comes to human rights. in fact, its pretty heinous if you look back over the years. they are talking differently now than they talked before. but, if you look at what has happened, its tough to imagine that they are suddenly going to be entirely different, correct? >> i think we should verify their behavior they are giving assurances. we should see that we hold them to those a...

Have anything like leverage on, they like to be considered a credible country and would like to have international legitimacy which china and russia have given them. we have no leverage. the notion of your giving conditions to the television while we scamper out with fear in the lead, it is intuitively most americans will realize that is not credible. the sad part is we had credibility in this country. we had multiple administrations that could have gotten us to a peace accord. we did not run th...

The u.n., by as well as by our own intelligence agencies that al qaeda is still there in the country. the administration is, pretty much, silent on those reports. it doesnt want to talk about them. >> so, americans evacuated the -- the u.s. embassy. russia and china, still, have presence there. what does that say to you about the future? what does that bode for the future? >> well, i think, the first thing it says is that our threats, the taliban saying, you know, if you dont cooperate, you wont...

Afghanistan. he rejected sound military advice. he openly bragged about i am not going to let the military keep me involved in afghanistan. it is time to get out. he is giving america a false choice. he is going to speak in a few hours, and he is going to mislead you. the choice was never stand have a big war or leave. it was to maintain a strategy that was working, keep the taliban at bay. have leverage to get a peace deal. here is what i hope he will do. i believe taliban drive. they will be a...