Pakistan has released one of the founding members of the taliban. He had been in prison in pakistan for for past three years. He was the talibans second in demand afghanistan. During this time he became close fence to the groups spiritual leader. In 2010 he was arrested in karachi during a joint cia operation. Lets hear from a correspondent who is in islamabad. How important is his release . Reporter the release is extremely important because this has come at the request of a Afghan Governments request. They came to have him released from pakistani custody. The council also welcoming the novembethemove. The afghan says he may be able to influence the taliban. Interesting, earlier, the Afghan Government is said to be in secret talks and was considered and therefore also until favor of the peace talks. But after, they saw a major setback. The release came in a time when they try to reach some sort of a political settlement it ice not clear if he will stay in pakistan even though he will
Analyst julian zellezer, historian and professor at princeton university. Good morning to you, sir. Good morning. Your reaction . Some astounding remarks from the president of the United States. It was pretty remarkable. Obviously there are elements of this that will become news stories. The way he discussed the russian intervention into the election focusing more on president obama. Again, not willing to totally confront what took what happened during the election. It will be upsetting to many. In some ways, this was the opportunity for him to finally respond to a lot of the criticism thats emerged. And obviously standing there with a government leader that has undertaken crackdowns against the media, and to speak about the media that way is also very unsettling. This was an opportunity for the president to forcefully come out against critics but took on the standard criticism of the administration. Stick with us. I want to go to the room where our jeff zeleny was listening to the exc
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