go to barack obama for making sure that we committed to what you would have relative to your friends in the region. so he s the one that deserves it. thank you, as well. thank you very much, folks. [ indiscernible ] and with that, that s the end of the public part of their meeting and they will continue to meet, of course. gail amman, what we learn side that the president was warned today that another threat is likely. this was at the national security meeting today in the situation room, that another terror attack in kabul is likely, which, of course, has prevented busloads of at-risk afghans of getting to the gates. how concerned are you about your friends, colleague, many others who are not going to get out. first of all, i wanted to say
contain the taliban, to contain the haqqanis and the haqqanis who you just spoke about kidnapped us. it was the haqqanis and not the taliban. the only way we will succeed in this is defending our allies and helping our afghan allies flee. the bombing yesterday was a tragedy. i guess we can t give up after this u.s. airlift and my broader point is that this is a long-term challenge that won t simply go away after we pull out our troops. and when we talk about the threat that we face, gail and david, we want to listen to what the president and bennett are saying in the oval office. you know, these very days illustrate what the world would look like if a radical islamic regime acquired a nuclear weapon. that would be a nightmare for the entire world.
official, well, they need our money. they want our respect. they want to be recognized, so they ll have to change. gail, first to you. you have to look at the rhetoric and the reality. right now it doesn t give you a lot of confidence, but what we can be confident in is that the world has leverage. the world bank has frozen its disbursement. it has $9 million in assets that the taliban will need. it will need money. it wants to show especially as it goes up against isis. it wants to show that it can govern. are you going to use your leverage to say women included in government and in education, make sure you don t go back to brutality and if you want the money you have to let people get to safety. we do have some leverage. and david, what about the
contact the embassy immediately. the taliban is rapidly gaining ground in afghanistan today. now claiming they ve taken kandahar, but no confirmation from the u.s. military and the report on the a.p. that they have taken hirat. this as u.s. defense officials are becoming increasingly concerned that al qaeda, nbc news. kelly cobiella who is in kabul and gail amman who is an adjunct and senior fellow at the council of foreign relations and kieran white house correspondent for the washington post and covered the pentagon and former nato supreme allied commander. welcome. kelly, first to you on the ground. what do you know about the taliban s advances and the warning in kabul. it s urgent. you ve had report from kabul with the afghan people displaced
coverage of this this week by your network. we really appreciate it. we re very interested in bringing the attention of the american public to this crisis. secretary kerry has said this crisis is a challenge to the conscience of everyone of us. i have traveled to all of the countries bordering syria and met the refugees themselves and they have seen terrible things inside syria and they have survived a terrible, terrible war. when we talk about the effects, gail, let s go through the latest report, the civil war affects 22,550 refugees dispraised, women giving birth in 2014, 3400 will suffer miscarriages. they have really explored these you know, horrible medical conditions which we saw with our own eyes this week. the scope of this crisis is just something that is swamping