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The situation is dire across afghanistan. what is the latest on what afghans are dealing with at this time? reporter: it is absolutely heartbreaking, rosemary. they are dealing with an inability to access their money and that is if they had that much money or funds to begin with, keeping in mind that around 76% of the population before all of this, before the taliban takeover of kabul was already living below the poverty line. they are dealing with hunger, they are dealing with an inability to access proper health care, basic medical care, essential services. when we talk about the economic collapse of afghanistan, we re also talking about the collapse of certain infrastructures or certain processes, logistical processes that were in place to try to get humanitarian aid where it needs to go. ....
International community but also look after their own people. they had enough. the region has seen enough. reporter: now pakistan s relations with the u.s. during the war were seen as duplicitous at best. in fact, the prime minister has been criticized for appearing to endorse the taliban takeover of kabul. afghan officials, the government officials who fled have blamed pakistan s support for the taliban as being key to the group s resurgence. this is something that pakistani officials flatly deny and reject. the ambassador told me the power vacuum that exists in kabul carries risks for the whole region. nobody has been able to control afghanistan from outside. so all we can do that we can mash it down, we can encourage them to, of course, meet the ....
A commitment from the taliban that look, we need to go longer. it is going to take us maybe one more week, maybe ten more days. it is in your interest. here s how. are you comfortable with that type of negotiating? there will be, negotiations are under way, have been under way from the outset of the taliban takeover of kabul and afghanistan. the cia director was there. we don t know what was in that discussion but we know that there was negotiation that presumably led to the taliban attempting to provide security outside of the airport. are there ongoing discussions now? certainly are with regard to military to military, such that the taliban has a military organization. are there quid pro quos? of course there are. ....
0 karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with mtp daily only on msnbc. well, don t worry, andrea, you re not going very far. we re coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to mtp daily. a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president biden s agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside the airport. hospital officials are treating about 60 people injured and at least six killed. pentagon press secretary john kirby tweeted there were two blasts in what he calls a complex attack. one of those explosions at the abbey gate and the other at a hotel. the briefing he was supposed to have was postponed by events on the ground as was the covid task force briefing. the administration says the president has been briefed on the situation. it is our understanding he is in the oval office ....