al taliban was in control before 9/11. they had uncontrolled space. ungoverned space. they had space that allowed al guide to grow, train, prepare and launch and execute the attacks of 9/11. we have to be able to have very good eyes, good intelligence as best we can now that the government in kabul is about the go away. we have to do our very best. if it looks like that various terrorist elements in afghanistan, there s an unholy trinity and they don t get along. we have to keep our eyes on that because we cannot allow ourselves to have a repeat of 9/11. the short answer is yes. we ll have to do something in a precise way if we see the conditions repeat themselves. nice to see you both. thank you for being here. thank you. back in the war at home on covid. many of the vaccinate have had had it with the unvaccinated.
and happened exactly as u.s. forces left. now some forces are going back in, not for combat the pentagon says but to help americans get out. general, i have a lot to talk to you about, some of it, we can talk about why afghans aren t fighting. there s a counter argument to say if we haven t been able to fix or turn it around in 20 years, another year, two years is not going to change afghanistan s fate. is there an argument about stopping the taliban from having a victory as opposed to turning afghanistan around. how would you make the argument to the white house what it has done has stret ened, embold end the taliban and other terrorist elements that may now flee to the region. there s no real political support in the u.s. for
a different view the ones he hoped to influence have a different in our president made a very clear case actually for why we went in there because our goal has been to clear our border with syria from more terrorist elements for a better isis or p.k. related groups but they weren t buying it whether well i think they re meeting members of the republican party senator lindsey graham for instance chairman of the senate judiciary committee he seems to have particularly angered your president by talking about the military action as an invasion but what did you expect while he got his answer obviously our president told him very clearly that he cannot call turkey an invader but the president is also got his answer didn t he said the reason it s an invasion this is lindsey graham the reason it s an invasion is that s exactly what you did i warned you not to do it and everything that i was worried about came true in spades but it is senator graham who said a couple of years ago to ask quarter
clear our border with syria from more terrorist elements for a better isis or p.k. related groups and yet they weren t buying it were they well i think they re meeting members of the republican party senator lindsey graham for instance chairman of the senate judiciary committee he seems to have particularly angered your president by talking about the military action as an invasion but what did you expect while he got his answer obviously our president told him very clearly that he cannot call turkey an invader but the president is also got his answer then he said the reason it s an invasion this is lindsey graham the reason it s an invasion is that s exactly what you did i warned you not to do it and everything that i was worried about came true in spades but it is senator graham who says a couple of years ago to ask quarter then the defense minister of the united states that p.k. is the same as p y d y p g p y d y p g in syria is the p.k. he is the one he said this on record now he s
vegetables and rocks as they left syria, russians will now take their place. moscow forces instead of american troops will now be patrolling the border region together with the turks. and the russians will ensure that armed kurdish groups, america s former allies in the fight against isis, retreat from turkish territory. both sides will take necessary measures to prevent infiltration of terrorist elements russian foreign minister sergey lavrov read. another win for vladimir putin courtesy of president trump. we never agreed to protect the kurds for the rest of their lives skblnch lives. reporter: it comes as the washington post and new york times report that both hungarian president viktor orban and vladimir putin tried to encourage president trump to take a hostile view of ukraine. officials familiar with the testimony of career diplomat george kent before house committees last week told the washington post trump s conversations with putin and orban reinforced his view of