to be pretty interesting have tested positive for colored before the even left the country to get to china to opening ceremonies are on friday for this is a big propaganda opportunity for china. does the white house have any sort of counter programming that it is planning? they say they re always paying attention to the propaganda that comes from china. and countering it. i think it is important though during this period, nobody takes their eye off of ukraine. because they ve used the olympics in the past as a time frame to breach the sovereignty of other companies in 2014 and in 2008 and in georgia. and we also know taiwan is what she is looking at, everyone is keeping an eye on pollutant taiwan is part of
states. it s not in their self-interest to allow a repeat of that. that seems to be a lot of some people might say that s a bit of wishful thinking. the propaganda opportunity that they may have, particularly coming up on the 20th anniversary of 9/11, that has got to scare some folks. isis, when they made their expanse, it ended up inspiring acolytes to do attacks on the west, attacks in this country. are you at all concerned about the propaganda victory these extremists are about to have on the 20th anniversary of 9/11? chuck, what we are is extremely vigilant. the president instructed all of us, starting with the intelligence community, starting with the pentagon, to make sure we re maintaining the vigilance and the capacity to see the reemergence of any terrorist threat and to be able to deal with it effectively and in realtime, and we have confidence
welcome them home. anna koran, cnn, kabul. and nic robertson joins us live from london. a bleak picture painted there bianna koran. it sounds as though the withdrawal from bagram didn t go entirely smoothly in terms of the coordination with the local government. what more do we know about that? i m curious if you think that signals more troubles ahead in terms of the security handover. reporter: for operational reasons the u.s. military kept a very care ifful lid on when the were transferring out of bagram. that was a target. for the united states military, it was important to keep operational security. therefore, details of precisely when they were leaving and any handover so that they didn t hand a propaganda opportunity to
there are meetings with war otherwise wars would never end. you d have them go on forever. we have a meeting scheduled. it was my idea and it was my idea to terminate it. dana: he is the decider. the tele- band was set up for an incredible propaganda opportunity at camp david. they blew it. so their arrogance might have done them in, but maybe that s good. a couple of things. the attacks were happening at a pretty steady basis. we were attacking them too. we can move about a thousand people over the last month. i think the taliban was getting a little belligerent. the president said that he wanted to meet with the taliban. they wanted to go have a ceremony, saying, hey, look what i did. the president said, hey i don t want a celebration. i want to look these guys in the eye and see if they are serious about taking the next step. it was his idea to go to camp david. it was pompeo who put the talks
been living through this war for the past seven years and i think they felt very betrayed by the previous administration and so, seeing that america does care and is willing to take action has been really important to the syrian people and i think that people are standing by and really hoping that more action comes. elizabeth: you know, we had i was looking at other networks and there was some pro assad sort of, you know, cars honking and people cheering. are you seeing that as well. that perhaps there wasn t the toughness that they had anticipated, if that makes sense? yes, and i think assad will only have his loyalists, particularly in damascus and earlier this morning they were trying to rally people together to come to the center of the town and declare that america had failed and it did provide a propaganda opportunity for them, but their loyalists or their