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Quite some time. >> the president just said that there is no al-qaeda presence in afghanistan. that does not seem to be correct. >> what we don't think is -- what we believe is that there isn't a presence that is significant enough to merit a threat to our homeland as there was back on 9/11 20 years ago. pete: oh boy. rachel: what do you make of john kirby trying to cover for that huge blunder. >> i don't understand why the administration just doesn't own up and say, listen, we didn't plan for this. or maybe we did but we never executed that plan. but here are the things we are going to do fro...

Presence as well as isis in afghanistan. we talked about that for quite some time. we do not believe it is high. we don't have an exact high figure for you. they register somewhere. we don't have a perfect picture. and our ability our ability. they're there the same numbers that we have to be. there is no al qaeda presence. what i don't think is what we believe is that there isn't a presence that is significant enough to merit a threat to the homeland back on 9/11. i'm confused by that. of can you explain why there is no national interest in afghanistan? why did we have troops there for

Estimate. >> military intelligence estimates about how many al qaeda remain? >> we know that al qaeda is a presence as well as isis in afghanistan. we do not believe it is high. we don't have an exact figure for you. it's not like they carry identification cards and register somewhere. we don't have a perfect picture. our ability, our intelligence gathering ability in afghanistan isn't what it used to be because we aren't there with the same numbers that we used to be. >> the president said there's no al qaeda presence in afghanistan. that does not seem to be correct. >> what we don't think is...

Rapidly. biden needs to take a step, a page from ford's playbook. administration to get the south vietnamese out and put everything and every asset into it. you know, bret, i mean, this is like a self-inflicted [inaudible] it really is. but biden [inaudible] i'm incredibly afraid for our allies and our fellow american citizens today. >> bret: you mentioned al-qaeda, and i'm going to play this soundbite, the president and the pentagon spokesman john kirby. >> what interest do we have in afghanistan at this point with al-qaeda gone? >> we know that al-qaeda is a presence as well as isis in afgha...

In kabul. the surprise at the down fall and how speedy it was is really surprising when you look back at some of the things you reported back then. i encourage everybody to go back and take a look at your reporting from 2020. thanks very much. good to see you. general jack keane watching all of this with us. he's standing by. here's jennifer griffin pressing the pentagon on the presence of al-quaida, which the president said they're gone. the president said there's no al-quaida in afghanistan. watch this. >> the president just stayed there's no al-quaida presence in afghanistan. that does not ...