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0 ukraine. at least 130,000 troops and that number has gone up and they continue to conduct live fire exercises. according to the white house, president biden reaffirmed his support. zelensky said there's no need to panic and he knows the situation better than president biden. according to the kremlin, putin told his french counterpart that the u.s. and nato had not addressed his fundamental concerns about security in the region. joining me from kyiv is my partner matt bradley, courtney kube is in the briefing room and will ask questions on our behalf. matt, let me start with you on what we're...

I heard secretary blinken saying there was no plan. there was a he detailed plan. they chose to tear it up and put a political constraint where we had a conditions based security imodel for how we were approaching the risk from terrorism in h afghanistan. just very different ways of dethinking about the problem set and so when you talk about this coup, this takeover, we tried to get all the players at the table. we had women's groups, ngos, the taliban, folks from the north, the afghan government itself, all at the table trying to get a transition where we could some day, maybe it would be 10 ...

What we would expect from our country, the united states of america, is to go after a network, go after isis k. that's the strategic implications. this was merely a tactical action. made us feel good about it but more must be done. >> well, let me ask you about that then, general. with far fewer resources on the ground now, no help from a friendly government there in kabul, how does the u.s. find and target extremists who might pose a threat in a more proactive way to prevent another attack? >> that's a very good question. in fact, it's much more difficult now. the idea of the over the horizon...

And i found, frankly, jen psaki and the national security advisor noncommittal if you can't get them all out at this rate by august 31st, can you guarantee them safe passage? you were on the ground and spent time in kabul more than a year. how hard will it be to save these people? >> thank you for the question. this is a painfully difficult problem set. yes, the intent would define a way to get them back but there is no mechanism to bring them out of the inner land. if they didn't get out before the final push of the taliban, this is a tragic aspect of this scenario that is unfolding. everybod...

Is a threat to national security and needs to be removed from office. so why stick it in the bottom drawer and do nothing about it? >> well, it demonstrates that this was a political process from the beginning. we are about to turn over a new year, a new decade, but we continue to see the same politics, just by new means. what democrats have done as they are really cheap impeachment process to any disagreement about the utilization of presidential power, or any disagreement, a president's different type of approach to a particular problem set come all of a sudden becomes impeachable. when they...