negotiating with the taliban and saying we re going to get these people out this way or is that a fool s errand? well they re going to have no but to negotiate with the taliban. but as everyone has pointed out, the ball is really in the taliban s court as to whether they want to play ball or not. there is only a certain areas of leverage that the united states has and those sources of leverage aren t that strong. one is the goal of international aid that the taliban would like to have because 80% of the afghan budget was foreign aid based and they would like to get some of the aid back. second is international recognition and the trade ties and the travel abilities that come with it, that would also include presumably being able to reopen the international airports. and then finally is leverage the united states has because the taliban, many of the senior leaders are organized crime mafia bosses. they have with their money laundering networks have put a lot of their money overseas.
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taliban had some 80% of the afghan budget comes from foreign aide. the economy is frozen at the moment since the taliban took over the country like organization. she pointed to the economic aspect of this. i think the interesting and complicated things, we are in this extraordinary position where the u.s. is relying on the taliban for full cooperation. the white house is keen to say we are not trusting them, they re not friends. we need that cooperation trying to get people out. mark, the president, he has one of the toughest day in the united states in the long run. if viewers haves not heard this, this is one of the deadliest days in afghanistan, period. the president also try to
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0 can t operate in the same way and the afghans they worked with is not assessable. and now to try to find the people responsible for this attack or future attacks is a much more different position. to our viewers just as i took the baton from alicia mendez, i am going to pass it to ari melber. we thank our guests, peter baker and greg mire. we ll be going live to jen psaki as the president departures from the east room heading back to the oval office. jen psaki will take many, many questions, the press corp will have for her. with that, our forecast with ari melber. thank you, we are giving you this continuous coverage on a difficult day in afghanistan as brian williams just mentioned we are here awaiting this briefing from the white house s press secretary. many questions there. you can see reporters already getting into position. we ll bring it to you live. here is the latest on what we know tonight. two suicidal bombers detonated themselves in kabul. the death toll is high. 12
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