and courtney, the pentagon had a banner day, but now the president has been saying he would potential i will be open to keeping kroops passed. now the taliban is signaling what is going on there. how are they approaching it now? there doesn t seem to be a lot. according to the defense here, they are continuing to plan for the reality that everyone has to be out by august 31st. one of the questions we have been asking here is is there an agreement here between the u.s. military and the taliban about the u.s. leading them. we know they have been talking to the taliban on the ground there, and that is military commander to taliban kmander for the last week or so. they have been allowing for safe