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At the start of this event as thousands of people remember those caught up in saturdays tach. There will be speeches and people coming through because of the day with flowers, their own tributes and whilst we wait for the first of the speakers, it is worth returning to the breaking news that the bbc understands that khuram butt from barking was involved in the terrorist attack. The police have said they know the identity of all three, but the investigation is in rates have continued into the early hours of this morning. There were two more raves with more people being detained and they had pic...

There's no sense they're competent to do that, but that's what they bought and now they got it. >> there's a couple of issues, joy. there's the counterterrorism issue and the future of afghanistan with the taliban. the one thing the president has been quite clear on for months in addition to getting out is this idea that you repeated today that is there is a counterterrorism challenge inside afghanistan, that we can deal with those over the horizon capacity. the capacity to take a missile strike. the capacity to take a drone strike. the capacity to conduct a special operation. in the same way ...

Security forces. i don't think there are any illusions nor should there be any illusions that the taliban is a partner. i think right now what you have is a circumstance where the taliban -- look, they have been an insurgency and ideological movement. they don't know how to govern afghanistan. they don't even know how to provide security in the situation of kabul. this is not a city they have been governing for a very long time. they have a lot to work out. they're in discussions right now with former afghan officials about what kind of government they can set up, what kind of people they migh...

>> wow. >> so, there's that element as well. he announced it on vladimir putin's birthday. but the real issue here is that our government has no strategy vis-a-vis the middle east. and this is the problem. number one, you have the counterterrorism issue. so, this is only making it more dangerous now for the united states and our allies in europe, right? because these isis fighters -- the kurds are not going to be able to hang on. they have to defend themselves, their families, their villages. they won't be able to guard these facilities that much longer if the turks continue. second, you have ...

Where we'll actually engage, fight and withdraw at a weird point in time that makes no sense whatsoever? you actually should be withdrawing our forces, mr. president, as part of a peace deal, as part of an agreement where we use the leverage we have from the forces we have on the ground. and by the way, you know, larry is right, this is we still have forces there nearby. we should be using our leverage to get all of the sides to the table and come up with an agreement, because there's a civil war going on. it's not just a counterterrorism issue. >> that's a good point. and i know the president...