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And clearly al qaeda has aspirations to attack america, always has. isis-k obviously has aspirations greater than afghanistan. that's why they have fundamental disagreements with the afghan taliban. i don't think they have the wherewithal yet to conduct an attack against america. why would we permit them to acquire it and why we wanted to keep the modest force there. remember, c.i.a. bases were focused on these organizations. al qaeda and isis. that was their primary focus and the intelligence capability. that capability has been very successful in striking down al qaeda and preventing them to...

Will say this. what this wasn't was a failure of intelligence. somebody knew, somebody talked. perhaps it would have been worse without that alert that went out, what, 24 hours ago, about the lack of safety. and indeed the danger at the airport gates. i am wondering how it could have been better, however, based on that tip we had. >> brian i think we talked on tuesday that this was the worst-case scenario, that there could be a terrorist attack of some sort, t airport tt we still have intelligence capability. we knew this was coming on the warnings went out. i think what this shows is that thi...

>> they're calling the shots but we have some leverage with them as well. after we leave we certainly are going to have an intelligence capability. not as great as it has been. but nonetheless -- and i won't predict this but speculate about it. the taliban may be calling upon our intelligence services to help save them from isis-k and from al qaeda. i'm not predicting that but they may be in trouble economically and they may be assaulted by extremist groups more extreme than they are. they may have to fight that war as well. i think thr period

Legal challenge if this is how this went down. this is how this is going down. is that in the works? >> like i said, congress is going to use every tool at our disposal. we will pursue this in court. when we return from our recess in a week, i plan to convene a hearing of the military appropriation subcommittee and bring our military leadership in front of our committee and ask them point blank whether they think a border wall is more important than the facilities that we have already funded to make sure that we can keep our troops ready to defend our nation, train them so that they are ready,...

Government for several weeks now. there is independent intelligence that the cia is weching into its own assessment here, its own collection efforts. the material gathered by other governments, as well as its profile of mohammed bin salman and the way he operates, and the way an operation like this would have to go down in a system like the saudi government. so, it's a combination of all these things, and i think it's interesting and important that the cia attaches high confidence to this assessment zblchl on top of your crucial work and your beat and your life's work, what have you learned in...