the field. you have, of course, all of the information at your disposal and there are reports from our own embassy that there have been beheadings, executions and the taliban going door to door, women are texting and calling colleagues of ours here in washington saying the situation is dire, that they're being targeted. girls are being taken hostage as, quote, child brides. we would call that kidnapping and rape. what is our moral obligation to the people of afghanistan? >> andrea, the reports that have emerged from afghanistan not only in the recent days and recent weeks are disturbing and we are gravely concerned by what we are hearing and we are doing everything in our power to try to put an end to this violence and give some semblance of hope,