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Infrastructure not in the country with these potential strikes from the united states coming offshore or over the horizon and some other parts of the region and in counterterrorism what you require when you are looking for people or individuals as targets, you are trying to get very precise intelligence, and so when you are not on the ground, when you don't have that infrastructure in place it just makes it harder. it doesn't mean it's impossible but it is just going to increase the ability or complicate the ability of the united states to engage in those operations.- united states to engage i...

Thank you very much for being with ours. ., ~ i. ., ., with ours. thank you for having me. it's notjust kabul airport where people have been gathering to try to leave afghanistan since the taliban took over of the country. thousands have also travelled to the border with pakistan, in the hope of getting out. but many aren't being allowed through. 0ur correspondent, shumaila jaffery reports from the afg hanista n/pakistan border. this is the border point. thousands of desperate families, trying to escape into pakistan. these are people who knew they had no chance at kabul airport. they are desp...

Demonstrated when we took out some of bin laden in pakistan, and others elsewhere, all of those were taken out without the results of any troops on the results of any troops on the ground. our reconnaissance ability to strike direct targets anywhere in the world when a threat arises, we have that capacity and we have done it and we are going to continue to do it. having troops on the ground or having troops withdrawn, takes the target of their back. now we won't have any more of these kind of killings that we shall have the ability to reach out any time we identify a thread. it's notjust kabul...

Other things besides two congressman trying to get a look at things? >> yeah, let me be very clear, bret. we were not planning to go there and to be dependent on the u.s. military. our plan was entirely independent of that. we did make ourselves known on arrival for situational awareness to the individuals who were there. but, the program for the defense department from the white house, from the state department is frankly laughable. right now they have done everything they can to obstruct the situation, to deny this reality, and, frankly, to hide facts from the american people. i will be hone...

And remnants in afghanistan? yes. >> we are awarere of sporadic cases where they aren't being pulled out and where there is harassment going on and some physical violence that has occurred. >> my job is to make judgments no one else can or will make. i've made them, i'm convinced them absolutely correct. and a lot can still go wrong. >> americans held hostage behind enemy lines. >> sean: americans held hostage behind enemy lines, day nine and now in a day firm deadline with taliban fighters still surrounding that airport at the perimeter with multiple checkpoints. anyone who wants to get insid...