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Time, including rudy giuliani. take a look. >> did we sufficiently learn our lessons? >> and did we sufficiently, you know, button up the chatter that we were focusing on pre-9/11 that we got better on focusing on after 9/11 because it was the same type of chatter we were getting out of libya, right? >> absolutely right. i worry on the 12th anniversary. not that certain people have forgotten, look, people move on, death is a horrible thing to deal with, the trauma of it is horrible, but people deal with it in different ways, some point they move on, if they don't they learn to live with it. th...

Began in the ashes of 9/11. america's longest cwar in afghanistan. the war from terrorism is far from over. nic robertson is in kabul. and he joins me now. you were in afghanistan on 9/11 as america was under attack. how much has the terror threat changed in the 20 years since? >> reporter: it is changed because it is become much greater, more diverse, more spread around the globe. it is changed because officials know that out, they have recognized that governments are listening to their counter-terrorism officials and they've put in place mechanisms to counter that. for example, we just heard...

Are back to that pre-9/11 thinking. remember when people used to say al-qaeda was at war with us long before we were at war with al-qaeda. and i think joe biden's spin that somehow the world watches the spectacle of us leaving fellow americans behind enemy lines and concludes that america has greater resolve and greater capabilities going forward is just farcical. >> bret: leslie, the state department conceding today that most of the sivs, most of the afghans who helped the u.s. in the war actually did not get out and the numbers are pretty staggering. here is -- the state department on the sa...

Taliban yesterday and now that the u.s. is gone? it actually shows as we roll it in, the u.s. caskets being -- mock u.s. caskets can our american flag draped over it that seems like a country that's dying to become part of the world community. oh, wait a second. there is the french. in the back there is the british. seems like they are really anxious to be accepted by the security council. am i correct, senator? do they -- does this administration think we are delusional? >> yeah, brian. they are really eager to be welcomed into the salons in new york and paris and london and all across the wo...

Make sure, they're not able to attack the united states outside the country or here in the u.s. but how do you keep that threat from metastasizing? >> well, i don't think you do. i mean, according to the united nations, thousands of foreign fighters have been pouring into afghanistan in the last month. and according to u.s. military officials, 20 foreign terrorist groups in afghanistan. so this is going to be like the summer of 2014 in iraq where you see a lot of foreign fighters pouring in. now the ability for them to carry out an attack on the american homeland i think is very much constrain...