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What was that? what was agreed or negotiated? so, a key part of that was that afghanistan and its territory should not be used against the us or any of its allies, that the security of the us or its allies should not be threatened from afghan territory and that is one of the things we're expecting to be discussed, but the top of the us agenda right now is the evacuation of us nationals and others who are still stuck in afghanistan have permits to leave the country. in the past few weeks there have been delays and difficulties in the evacuation process, particularly by air and via doha, where i...

Delays and difficulties in the evacuation process particularly by air via doha where i am and they will be hoping to smooth out that process and hold the taliban to its commitment to upholding people with the right documents to leave the country. they report also, a day after dozens of people were killed in a bombing in kunduz city in afghanistan which was claimed by islamic state khorasan province, and a growing state of islamic state militancy is also expected to be something discussed during this two—day meeting. something discussed during this two-day meeting.— something discussed duri...

More attacks and possibly bloodshed. that's the thing i think resonates most with americans is they don't want to see the young people in our armed forces coming back in coffins. again, it's easy to look in hindsight and say what should have been done and legitimate questions, of course, about the evacuation process, but the concern is if u.s. troops had stayed after that agreement was struck, the taliban could have attacked our men and women. >> not only the troops, but american citizens left in afghanistan. that was the key point the general was making. once we got to that point, it was more...

>> what do you men servicemen? >> afghans who served with us. >> oh, afghan allies. special immigrant visas. >> worked in the united states military and they have family left behind in afghanistan. they can't get them out of afghanistan. they are certainly, jake, going to be in the bull's-eye. >> state department officials say it's going to take weeks to get routine commercial flights back returning to kabul which would obviously help the evacuation process if there is one that's allowed to happen. how word are you? >> we're at the mercy of the taliban and those flights have been held up in sh...

Process and going forward, right now, we are deeply engaged with them at nato and in other organizations on working together on the way forward to collectively hold the taliban to the commitments that it's made to the international community. >> thank you. gentleman's time has expired. i now recognize representative of pennsylvania for five minutes. >> assuming it's not classified, can you tell us where you are today? >> i'm at the state department. >> couldn't be bothered to come county here and see congress. that's great. >> sir, my understanding is the house is not in session and that's why...