and clearly al qaeda has aspirations to attack america, always has. isis-k obviously has aspirations greater than afghanistan. that s why they have fundamental disagreements with the afghan taliban. i don t think they have the wherewithal yet to conduct an attack against america. why would we permit them to acquire it and why we wanted to keep the modest force there. remember, c.i.a. bases were focused on these organizations. al qaeda and isis. that was their primary focus and the intelligence capability. that capability has been very successful in striking down al qaeda and preventing them to rise up and be a threat to the united states. we ve killed multiple levels of their leaders. bin laden the most notable but also successive leaders one after the other. the presence we ve had there has been our guarantor that it
we have to be attune to the possibility that isis-k or any other group within afghanistan would look to extend its reach beyond afghanistan itself. the intelligence community has briefed us over time that their current capability to threaten the homeland is not there but that s a capability they re seeking and we ll continue to pay close attention to that. dana: general, your thoughts on that. well, he just provided the justification for why we should have kept a modest force inside afghanistan, which is what the military and intelligence service have been saying all along, that there is an al qaeda presence, the u.n. reports as much as provinces have al qaeda in it. isis-k is there 1500 to 2,000 before they got another 1,000 released from the detention center at the taliban opened up
the orders from president biden were to go to zero and leave only a small embassy presence behind. over the weekend two attacks on u.s. forces. last night five rockets shot down. a mortar system that fires 3,000 rounds a minute. another attack thwarted yesterday. a reaper drone destroyed a car filled with suicide bombers less than two miles from the front gate of the airport where troops still stand guard. another reefer flying from the united arab emirates killed two isis planners. two of these individuals not walking on the face of the earth. it is a good thing. flights continue out of the kabul air base. by tomorrow there will be no u.s. troops on the ground for the first time in 20 years. dana: thank you.
you are on a dangerous journey in taliban and isis-k infested territories as we have seen the taliban reverting in some outer provinces already to their old ways. this as the u.s. is still trying to determine how they will have a relationship with this new taliban government. the secretary saying at least for now temporarily there will be no diplomatic presence left behind. bill: thank you, griff. more to come from the department of state. dana: the sun is setting on afghanistan. the deadline to get u.s. troops out now one day away. earlier this morning five rockets were fired at kabul airport. the final evacuation efforts wind down. the u.s. intercepted all five. no reported casualties. hundreds of americans and thousands of allies still stranded antony blinken had this warning. there is a high likelihood of additional attacks between now and the 31st. this is the most dangerous time
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