over when they really are not. but with 10,000 american troops still stationed in afghanistan, if this war really is back onto the point where the taliban is going to be taking and holding significant territory, how much do we expect american troops to be participating in this fight? if this fight is going the way it looks today, does that mean that american troops don't get to leave? and how does this affect everything else that we're tied up in with and without our allies around the world as this remarkable pile-up of world leaders copies this week in new york city. joining us nbc news national security producer court nit kube. thanks for staying late to be with us tonight. >> thanks for having me raich. >> we've heard there were two u.s. air strikes in support of some sort of taliban effort in kunduz. do you have any sense of how big a fight is happening for kunduz in do we know what the air strikes were for. >> we were told late tonight by