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Can we have any confidence that the doha negotiators speak for the taliban, what their intentions are going forward, or do we simply not know? >>, you know, i think it's -- it's evolving and i don't want to say i trust in the assessments i've had. this is a region i lived in from 2013 to 2015, a lot of the individuals that have been involved in many different aspects of the process, people i know, not on the taliban side, so i think there's an open question on the taliban, there's an open question on the influence of the senior leadership that has been out of the fight for a while. there's the...

Mistake? ~ ~ ., ., mistake? well, the afghan government was not art mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of — mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of it _ mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of it because _ mistake? well, the afghan government was not part of it because the _ was not part of it because the taliban utterly rejected the idea of negotiating with the afghan government until after it had negotiated with the us and achieved its number one objective, which was an american commitment to a clear timeline for withdrawal. it was a calculated risk...

An awful lot of work done. this was going to be just a first step in what will be a probably a lengthy and complex negotiation. so i'm for negotiated settlement. i'm skeptical that the taliban will deliver, as many are, and i think one thing that i want to stress is that women so far have not been included at all in even the negotiating room. of course, they wouldn't be present on the taliban side but for us to push that as the afghan government and taliban are brought together is very important and all the data shows that peace settlements that don't include women are far more likely to fail....

Taliban side last year we had this you know three days of troops and you could see taliban marching into cities and people welcoming them so that was three days of not fighting off not dying and this is raiding what people are longing for about the price might be high we might see a spike in violence before we're going to get anywhere son of peterson our correspondent who specializes in afghanistan thank you for your assessment let me down be updated with some other stories making news around the wasn't north korea is reported to be rebuilding its long range rocket launch site funding the coll...

The question is how much do you put the taliban in that process and how much can you trust them to move forward in this process? >> part of the deal is assurance from the taliban they will never give safe haven to terrorists again. the question is, nick, can that be trusted? >> right now i've been told the taliban is giving safe haven to what were described to me as al qaeda sleeper cells, that they are being monitored, they're given food, they are not fighting. if there is a deal and the taliban should have a foothold back in the carpool, you'll have the taliban back where they were essential...