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Officials about the deadline and when u.s. should leave? >> what i can tell you is that the taliban have been very clear about what their expectations are, as well. >> what the public and private statements are the same? >> without getting into details, i'm not seeing much dissonance. >> you were speaking about that issue. taliban calling the shots here, please go on, sorry for interrupting but i wanted to play that for you. >> they are calling the shots but we have some leverage with them. after we leave we'll certainly have an intelligence capability, not as great as it has been but nonethel...

We were there with a lot of people and a lot of intelligence resources, drones and everything. so even when we were there in force, there were limits to our intelligence. the limits will be higher and we had reports from the u.n. and as well as by our own intelligence agencies that alibi da is there. administration is pretty much silent on those reports. >> so americans evacuated the u.s. embassy. russia and china have a presence there. what does that say to you about the future? does that bode for the future? >> i think the first thing it says is our threats that saying if you don't cooperate...

It is the case as jim is suggesting that isis and iraqi sunni militants will have a toucher fight on their hands as they get closer and closer to baghdad. we're seeing that in some of the other out lying towns. where the shia soldiers are defending homes and families, all of a sudden their resistance stiffens. they have been joined by large number of militia men who are as vicious as the isis and alibi da and other militant fighters on the sunni side and of course, they are being backed up to some degree by the iranians. baghdad is eight, maybe 9 million people. it's a huge urban sprawl and ur...