the taliban in the past to help them work with the taliban to get any americans out. the second one is economic, and that s exactly what it sounds like here and if the u.s. were to go that route, remember the u.s. has frozen millions of dollars in taliban assets. is it possible there would be some sort of agreement to unfreeze them, it s unclear. what is very clear as the taliban have taken over the government in afghanistan, that is a country very reliant on foreign money, on foreign assistance and assuming all that money dries up, now that the taliban are in charge, they are going to be needing money, they re going to need revenue sources so it s possible that that could be another way that the u.s. would work to get americans out but again, as you mentioned, secretary blinken providing no specifics on it, we re not getting a lot of specifics here. those are the two according to defense officials i ve spoken with that they re considering or looking at exploring. courtney kube live