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that al-qaeda has not returned to afghanistan after the u.s. withdrawal. the late saturday statement comes two weeks after president biden announced that drone strike in kabul, killing kind as leader. it marks one year since the u.s. began as chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan, allowing tampa taliban to regain control. new reaction today on the fbi search of donald trumps mar-a-lago resource. members of congress asking for a damage assessment from the intelligence community on those d...

you are live with us in the cnn newsroom. we are live in tel aviv. we continued our breaking news coverage, as israel welcomes home a second group of hostages, released earlier today. this was the extraordinary scene that you see right there at the crossing from gaza, into egypt. we witness those hostages finally making their way out of gaza, the other way from internationals the red cross. we also watched that those hostages finally arrived in tel aviv. it is there where they will be ...

Equipment on the eastern flank, the countries closest to russia, to deter any aggression that russia might be contemplating against nato countries but in terms of, look, i think you have to listen to president putins own word, this is something he was planning all along, he made every possible effort to deter him, to dissuade him from taking this case but clearly this is something he planned for a long time and much bigger than nato, this is all about trying to get ukraine back into his orbit, t...

Allow al qaeda to reconstitute in afghanistan. does that concern you? >> it concerns me greatly, because i dont believe that this is a new taliban. theyve never broken their bonds with al qaeda.wenow that theyrl deeply integrated. and so, i think we have a real security challenge ahead of us to both keep an eye on and to degrade those capabilities without forces on the ground. >> odonnell: how do you think the terrorism threat has evolved since september 11, 2001? >> the real danger is that al q...

Months, two years or more for al qaeda to reconstitute. the idea that now that could happen faster, and thats what mark milley told members of the u.s. congress, that is certainly troubling. that would undercut one of the primary reasons, if not the primary reason, that the u.s. went into afghanistan. the idea that the confidence in that could be shaken, not a pleasant thought, jim. >> not at all. and it raises the possibility that u.s. troops may have to go back in at some later date. o oren li...

Accomplish so rapidly, and now approaching kabul, wont this likely revert to it becoming a haven for terrorists? >> thats an open question that were going to have to be diligent about, i guess. we have to be clear. there is a difference between the taliban, isis, and al qaeda. isis and al qaeda are organization thats have been very tested by america to strike the homeland. they have not ever indicated an intent or desire. we are not allowing al qaeda to reconstitute. we have a variety of mechani...

Because at the end of the day, there is no military answer to this problem. there are military means that can be used to set it back. iran has the know how and engineering capability to rebuild what you destroy so you need a context if youre going to use force, where the rest of the world is prepared to maintain severe economic sanctions on iran so that financially, and from a material standpoint it would be very difficult for the iranians to reconstitute. maintaining that context is important i...

A threat. >> to what extent do you connect the size of troop presence in afghanistan. >> the size is critical to, i think, trying to limit the ability for al qaeda to reconstitute. the larger force is important for securing the ground in a way that large areas of afghanistan are more immune to the threat. the stability of the government in afghanistan is a different issue. as a threat to the united states, the forces are still necessary. >> jim, tonight actually is it tonight? i think. rock cent...

unfolding diplomatic crisis. and why do women only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men? im wolf blitzer, youre in "the situation room." tomorrow marks one year since the u.s. mission that killed osama bin laden and today the terror leaders name is popping up out there on the campaign trail. the romney and obama campaigns are each trying to paint their candidate as the toughest, but for team romney, its a built of an uphill battle right now. our national political correspond...