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That is their concern here. they said it's not impossible. but it's going to be very hard is the words they're using to describe it. it's not so much conducting a strike. it's to get the daily intelligence that we're able to get from the afghan security forces, from the people itself, from the fact that we had seven military bases and multiple c.i. bases as listening posts. with all of that gone, you can't get that information at 10,000 feet. it's just not possible. yes, can we conduct a strike when we got some information? yeah. but getting the information is going to be the problem. >> marth...

0 to work, to come out of bagram. no way to keep bagram and go to effective zero in >> well, thinking of what we have -- may have gained or may have lost as we leave. we think about countering adversaries, so again, general mckenzie what is your assessment of the foreign influence in afghanistan, the wake of our - hosted what we called the conference. we all adversaries from filling the we talk about that region after the fall of afghanistan. generally what they want is they want assurance. they want to continue to have ties with the united states because they want alternatives to russia and t...

Radical islamist organizations who want to threaten the united states is our focus, and four presidents have come to that same conclusion, so we're in iraq. we're in syria. we're in east africa, on the ground because of that threat. we're very close in yemen because of the al qaeda threat there. and certainly we're going to be challenged to keep our eye on the ball in afghanistan because we've taken away our eyes and our ears the listening posts that we had there with our seven bases and the multiple cia bases. that's the concern i have. i do say this, in terms of all overall strategic signifi...

Listening posts. we had the biggest police department in the country and the most diverse. and we wanted to use those resources who had undercover operations, that sort of thing. that kicked in pretty quickly and i think people sort of saw that, gradually, but i can tell you this, right after, we took office, times square was empty still. neil: oh, i remember. >> people were voting with their feet as you said, so we knew whatever we were going to do we had to do it quickly. we had large amassing of police officers so people would see them in key location. neil: and i remember, you had your guy...

Fight. the largest police department in the country and the most diverse police department ask of course, we had the first attack on the world trade center and i was commissioner then, and i was just infuriated by it, but we had to join the fray and we brought experts from the federal government and we brought in david cohn from the cia, frank from the marine corps. we brought in analysts from the ivy league to go through the information that we gathered and we put in thousands of computers in the police department and also hundred of cameras throughout new york city, and we linked up with pri...