with that drone strike, when the u.s. was still in afghanistan, at the very end? the new york times and other media outlets and cnn has not confirmed this, but other media outlets like the new york times zbhave suggested that th was not actually a terrorist that was killed, it was either a mistaken identity or bad information. as the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, what do you know about that? well, jake, that is a topic that we expect an intelligence briefing on. i ve seen the reports. i want to hear what the intelligence briefing has to say about it. obviously, we were told that it was someone who was involved with isis-k and was planning an attack. the explosion that took place was far more than what we sent as a missile to explode that vehicle. so you have to wonder whether there were not explosives inside of the car. but we haven t had that type of intelligence briefing yet. now that we re back in session, we expect it. some republicans are calling
using afghanistan as base for external operations, including al qaeda and isis-k. we ll hold them accountable for that. that does not mean that we will rely on them. so secretary blinken later acknowledged that the u.s. obviously lost intelligence capacity by withdrawing. can the united states hold the taliban accountable? do counterterrorism in afghanistan with no troops there? reporter: well, i believe that there is able to do over the horizon efforts that can help us in our counterterrorism efforts. and we believe that they will be sufficient enough to protect the homeland. there s no question that when you re not on the ground in any country for which there is conflict or potential, that you lose some element of it. i think it would be naive to suggest that you re not going to lose some element of added protection.
are working well together. joe biden actually said, this is a quote american citizen stranded there, we re going to stay until we get them out. another lie! these are all lies. he actually brought back refugees and men with child brides from afghanistan while he stranded americans. think about that. greg: and they probably weren t vaxxed. [laughter] jesse: they launched a drone strike and set it hit isis k. it might ve taken out a family of ten. joe biden is on the phone with the president of afghanistan telling the president to lie and say things are going great. maybe we ll give you more weapons and air cover if you say that, if you lie so i get political cover. the president was impeached for that, his name was donald trump. and he s checking his watch while coffins are coming back? multiple times. the media is trying to cover it up. blows up the meetings with the families of the fallen. they are disgusted with him
did pay deference to the afghan president s request, and the collapse underscored and reaffirmed their decision to leave in the first place because what good would another year or two years or five years have been if they were going to collapse anyway. senator i want to ask about who s still in afghanistan and there s concerns about whether afghanistan will be a safe haven for terrorists again. we saw the devastating terror attack a week or so back that claimed more than a dozen american lives. what do you make of the threats by isis-k or other groups in afghanistan, what threat do they pose to the united states and west? i think they do pose a threat. we can t ignore it, we can t say we ve done it and there s no more terrorist threat. but there s uncovered terrorist
that airport. and there have been weeks now, of quiet diplomacy to try to get the airport up and running again. as you can imagine, there are a lot of issues here. some of them are technical, how do you get the taliban to safely operate a very complicated air traffic control system. but a lot has to do with security. can civilian airliners safely land and takeoff at an airport controlled by the taliban that is threatened by isis-k. what we don t know at this point is whether today s arrangement is scalable. is this going to be the first of many flights that comes out of kabul or is this a one-off exceptional arrangement to get this plane off the ground? now, this is not a silver bullet. we know for several days a number of charter flights that were supposed to carry both americans and afghan allies have been prevented from taking off in northern afghanistan. the taliban not letting those