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Equipment that was left behind incluing in the hands of the afghan forces that fell to the taliban according to my colleagues at dod will be inoperable or will soon be maintained inoperable. it s not good of strategic value to threaten us or their neighbors or given the taliban uniforms and guns and some other equipment that is now in their hands. i now recognize representative chris smith of new jersey, the ranking member of the subcommittee of african global ball health and alliance for five minutes. mr. secretary, you testified that you had encouraged americans to leave the country. simultaneous with that is statements being made by president biden that afghan s military capability was 300,000 man strong and that they had the best training imaginable. ....
0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. we ve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. with regard to masari shareef. there s been charter flights there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we need to so a process put in place to allow the flights to start to move. we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary, we requested sets of classified briefings not long ago. welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. i now recognize respect b ....