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Vivek: let's talk about the slugs in 198 -- talk about the solutions, in 1980, ronald reagan talked about. big government. he did what me needed to do in his era. but today that is half of the story. the ruling party -- in the united states has co-opted silicon valley to do through backdoor what the government cannot do. that is the new trick for how big government does the work today. crony capitalism 1.0 was about private companies, bribing government for favor in urn butt 2.0 in reverse. how do we fix the problem?

When we signed building from the beginning up to now we have not attacked the american forces. not a single american soldier has been held because of our promise and commitment. >> trust us, says the taliban general. your thoughts? >> my thoughts are that the taliban 2.0 are no different than the taliban 1.0. they have a much better public relations campaign. look what they did down in doha showing themselves as moderate and open to negotiations and look what happened on the ground. they're masters at deception and masters at propaganda and masters at psychological warfare. they caused entire ...

In six months this will be taliban 1.0 pre-2001. >> you say they convinced these governments and the military to melt away, honestly the taliban was able to take over this country so quickly, largely because the afghan military didn't fight and the political structure, the governmental structure, just quit. just folded shop and left. there is an argument that some are making that that just proves that it wasn't worth the u.s. effort the blood and treasure to prop it up if it was able to fold so quickly. how do you respond to that? >> two things i think we could have left in a less expeditious ...

Vivek: let's talk about the slugs in 198 -- talk about the solutions, in 1980, ronald reagan talked about. big government. he did what me needed to do in his era. but today that is half of the story. the ruling party -- in the united states has co-opted silicon valley to do through backdoor what the government cannot do. that is the new trick for how big government does the work today. crony capitalism 1.0 was about private companies, bribing government for favor in urn butt 2.0 in reverse. how do we fix the problem?

Administration that they will stand down? do you believe that will happen? or do you believe that they may go out with gunfire? >> i think we are going to see taliban 2.0 that's going to look an awful lot like 1.0. in terms of abiding by agreements, they broke pretty much every part of the agreement they made with the trump administration to include not conducting combat operations. they didn't come in with a cease-fire. they haven't used political process. they have broken everything. i think, unfortunately, the people who will pay for this are the 40 million afghans, particularly the women a...