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The Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") has opined for the first time on the controversial 1996 EU Blocking Regulation,1 which prohibits EU companies...

Everybody else about, is this a repeat of the fall of saigon? you're not a historian, but i know that the secretary, a number of you guys are thinking, how do you answer that question? can you give a sense of where the analogy is apt and where it's a very bogus, fallacious analogy to equate what's going on now with the potential fall of saigon. >> what i can tell you is we're not focused on the history of the vietnam war. we're just not. we're focused on meeting the requirements that we have today. that's where our head space is. certainly, we've seen the punditry and the commentary. i think i...

Move across the country? >> courtney, we saw the taliban making advances even before the biden administration came into office. we saw the taliban making advances at the district level before the president made his decision. >> but not like we're seeing now. this is a different ball game in the last week or so. these specific gains, taking these major cities like kandahar, herat, i mean, has that caught the military off guard, the speed with which they've been able to do it? >> we have been watching this from a very early period right after the president gave us the order to draw down. we cert...

Maintaining robust over the horizon counterterrorism capabilities in the region and we're going to continue to support our afghan partners, bilaterally, through maintenance support, through financial support, and we're going to continue to want to see a stable, secure afghanistan. the other thing i would say is that we want to continue to see that there's a negotiated political settlement here for governance going forward, so that's what our focus is on right now. >> do you really think the taliban is interested in negotiating? they haven't -- they seem not interested in that. i mean, do you r...