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have those threats don t metastasize and ultimately our homeland. if we do find intelligence targets or terrorist targets the intelligence committee will have to have strikes whether air strikes or ground operations to take out training camps that threaten the united states. the mission and the agenda for the intelligence community is going to be a tough one for the next coming months and years particularly because we don t have those outposts in the country, but this will evolve to the top of the agenda of all leadership. michael, over to you, let s listen to general mckenzie about isis and how it s formed in the u.s. prisons. they remain a lethal force and there are probably 2,000 hard core isis fighters in afghanistan now and many of those come from the prisons that were opened a few days ago. so that number is up and it s probably as high as it s ever been in quite a while and that
that they had hoped not to have against them at the end of this operation. the fact that the majority of the american people wanted us out. then an awful lot of people agreed with the president s decision to finally withdraw from afghanistan. that does not change the fact of what we have left behind. and so i want to play this. what we heard from the commander mackenzie about isis. we know that isis-k has worked very hard, to strike and continue to strike us. there are least 2000 hard-core isis fighters in afghanistan now, and of course many of those comes from prisons that were opened a few days ago, so that number is up. and it s probably as high as it s ever been in quite a while. that s going to be a challenge for the taliban. the point of all this was to keep america safe from another terror attack. what is the challenge now, for u.s. intelligence. with regard to tracking isis in afghanistan. and are we at risk? are we have more risk? you know, once were not
that we know. but how to they conduct it now? reporter: we had a very stark reminder about how the mission against isis-k is not over. yesterday we heard the first time from general frank mckenzie new numbers about the presence of isis-k in afghanistan. he is now saying there are at least 2,000 hardcore, hardened isis fighters as he called them in afghanistan. that s up from the most recent estimates we had from united nations earlier this summer, somewhere in the neighborhood of 500, up to 1200 total isis fighters in afghanistan. general mckenzie explaining the reason the number has gone up in large part is due to the fact that the taliban as they were rolling through parts of the country earlier this summer, they were emptying prisons, releasing many of those fighters. general mckenzie saying the taliban, now that they re in charge of security for the country are going to have a rough time dealing with these isis fighters, saying that they let them out of the prisons,
the ability to fly in drones or fighter jets or bombers from other bases, perhaps in the gulf to carry out counter terrorism strikes against isis-k or al-qaeda or even perhaps one day the taliban. the u.s. said that capability and that mission will continue. is this war over? i think you can say now that this war is over. the question about whether there emerges a terror threat in afghanistan that is able to emerge and threaten the u.s. hom homeland, right now nobody is ruling that out. we would assess that probably there are at least 2,000 hard core isis fighters in afghanistan now. and of course many of those come from prisons that were opened a few days ago. so that number is up and probably as high as it s ever been in quite a bill. that s a challenge for the taliban i believe in the days ahead. the question is how much of a challenge and what does the taliban do going forward now that it s fighting the u.s. and being forced to be put in a position where it is trying to