Happen. and david ignatius, the cia has played a very important role. of course, in afghanistan. now that we don t have, quote, boots on the ground, what about the final days and the way the cia has you ve been writing about try to take care of their allies? from early on, created a force of afghans who were known as the counterterrorist and per suit teams which operated in remote areas in the east and south of afghanistan, chasing the remnants of al qaeda, and deep bonds developed through those relationships. and the cia was very proud that it managed during these chaotic months following president biden s decision in april to get out of afghanistan, to get all more than 20,000 of the
The taliban is targeting isis militants in afghanistan after terrorists struck a mosque in kabul this weekend during the funeral for the high profile taliban spokesman s mother. isis has just claimed responsibility for that attack, and the taliban are clearly retaliating already for it. all this is raising new concerns over the security situation following the u.s. withdrawal. over the weekend, afghanistan s ambassador to the u.s. spoke to jonathan swan of axios about conditions for afghan women now that the the u.s. is gone. there has to be conditions on taliban that they commit to the achievements that the afghan society has made. did you get the sense that president biden cared about the fate of afghan women? i don t think so. he said the u.s. could not be the police of the world to
Believe was theirs as well as, of course, the messy u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan against the advice of nato allies, but i ll send it back to you first for more on the president s agenda and his comments just now. we ll talk to you in just a bit. joining us now for more on the big hurdles facing the president is sahil kapur, reuters white house correspondent jeff mason, and former republican national chairman michael steele. jeff mason, we ll start with you. let s listen to bit more from the president s comments moments ago on the debt limit. take a listen to this. let s be clear, not only are republicans refusing to do their job, they re threatening to use the power, their power to prevent us from doing our job, saving the economy from a catastrophic event. i think quite frankly, it s hypocritical, dangerous and disgraceful. their obstruction and irresponsibility knows absolutely no bounds.
Support for afghan women and for u.s. support in service of their advancement, that you know, that many of his critics are expressing now. but you know, as president he has decided that the thing to do is to withdraw afghanistan and make as clean a break as possible, and while it is regrettable that that means that there is not u.s. support on the ground that can guarantee the kind of advancement for afghan women we ve been able to support over the last 20 years, his calculation as the ambassador indicated there is that, you know, the united states cannot be that enforcer. that is not the right position for the united states to take. and while joe biden might dearly hope that afghan women were able to preserve their gains that we helped to buy for them, he s not going to risk take the risk of leaving troops there or do other politically risky things in his view to try to make that
Paris. secretary blinken is going to land in the french capitol a couple hours from now. as he navigates the diplomatic stress points, what will you be watching for? well, i think when we see him coming here today, we re going to see what kand of reception he gets tomorrow with the meetings with the french. will the president macron meet with him, and if so, how may secretary blinken make it up to the french? thousands of jobs going into an election year. there s a lot of politics at play. the u.s. grabbed that contract from them. there s also bound to be conversation about afghanistan. the french feel we ignored their advice and the advice of others in nato not to pull out so quickly. and there will be talks tomorrow on climate, and the commitments the europeans are making tomorrow to the conference the global conference in glasgow at the end of the month. so there s a lot of work to do