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Question is how much additional effort and potentially time will the u.s. government put to evacuating afghans. there were strong indications yesterday from the pentagon, the military will now make what amount to commando raids beyond the perimeter of the airport to pick up people and bring them to the airport. european commandos have been doing this all week. we expect to see that happen going forward by americans. >> thank you so much, anne gearan. joining me now is democratic representative gregory meeks of new york. the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee. congressman, thanks...

Draw down. >> right. so, for months now the biden administration has been reviewing the rules, the standards that the cia and the dod have to operate under in order to use lethal force in afghanistan once u.s. troops have departed. what do i mean by lethal force? i'm talking about drone strikes. even potentially commando raids. part hof this review is looking at whether or not to raise the bar, tighten up the rules that the cia and dod have to operate under when the united states is no longer officially at war in afghanistan. as you suggest, this kind of reviewing, this kind of policy-making p...

Terrorism operations, so the national security council is studying whether to raise the bar for the cia and pentagon to carry out deadly drone strikes and commando raids once u.s. troops are gone. >> and the army general in charge of the u.s. troop withdrawal from faung says everyone should be concerned about the taliban's advances on the ground there. general scott miller says it's not just about the afghan's government loss of terrain, it's also about the skiek logical impact on the afghan people. >> hope actually matters and morale actually matters. and so as you watch the taliban moving ac...

Hawks against the soviet union. in our own system, we had a lot of detente advocates, dr. kissinger and president nixon were leaders of detente, working out the balance of power with the soviet union, and we discovered from the chinese were willing to use force and fairly aggressive efforts including sniper rifles being provided and commando raids inside the soviet union. i cover this in one of my chapters, that frankly i was delighted that the cia permitted this to come out. 30 years ago, but there's still some sensitivities. they also helped us in cambodia, as you recall other in vietnamese ...

Hawks against the soviet union. in our own system, we had a lot of detente advocates, dr. kissinger and president nixon were leaders of detente, working out the balance of power with the soviet union, and we discovered from the chinese were willing to use force and fairly aggressive efforts including sniper rifles being provided and commando raids inside the soviet union. i cover this in one of my chapters, that frankly i was delighted that the cia permitted this to come out. 30 years ago, but there's still some sensitivities. they also helped us in cambodia, as you recall other in vietnamese ...