protect both the afghan people and foreign civilians working there and whether the next president who should be decided in the coming months is going to be up to the task of going after the taliban which clearly seems to still have a lot of strength as a country. >> the people who are supposedly protecting americans who volunteer their services, go over there with excellent intentions to help people with their health or whatever, the people that are supposed to be protecting them wind up to be killers. what do you do about that? >> reporter: well, it's really hard. it's like those green-on-blue attacks we've seen so often where afghan forces are dressed as forces but seem to be insurgents. we asked the state department about that today. are you going to provide any more security for u.s. personnel? for foreign workers over there? they just don't have the answers to that yet, wolf. they say we continue to work with the afghan forces but clearly they have a long way to go. >> they certainly do. thanks very much, elise for that report. coming up, a cnn exclusive.