potentially groundbreaking deal on u.s. and russian cooperation in syria. for the first time both sides will now be working together to try to end the conflict there, which could, if successful, as you heard the secretary of state there just a moment ago, could help battle isis in the country as well. the agreement comes after months of talks and at a time when u.s./russian relations have been pretty frosty. today the united states and russia are announcing a plan, which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume movement towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. working together, russia and the united states, and our teams, have devised what we think is a more prescriptive and far-reaching approach than we have been able to put together to date. this as donald trump tries to dial back his praise for russian president vladimir putin after being slammed for calling him a stronger leader than president obama. she talks about me. oh, d
there, which could, if successful, help battle isis in the country. now, the agreement comes after months of talks, and at a time when u.s./russian relations are a bit contentious. today the united states and russia are announcing a plan, which we hope will reduce violence, ease suffering, and resume movement towards a negotiated peace and a political transition in syria. working together russia and the united states and our teams have devised what we think is a more prescriptive and far-reaching approach than we have been able to put together to date. this, of course, is donald trump, who is trying to dial back praise of russian president vladimir putin after being slammed for calling him a stronger leader a e than president obama. she talks about me, oh, donald trump likes putin. and putin likes trump. honestly, i don t know the gentleman. but you know what? he s been nice to me. if he s nice to me if we got along with russia that wouldn t be so bad. now, earlie
That information, i think of the couple of questions that we answered earlier will come at the proper time. this question is for general taylor. i know it has been said numerous times that the focus of the mission is get evacuees and americans out as quickly as possible but for those injured during the attack yesterday and taken to the local hospital, has there been any talks about setting up security for those individuals, i m hearing reports on ground there are concerns that isis may attack that hospital. so are there any talks to possibly help keep those afghan civilians, excuse me, safe from a potential attack and then once they are well enough to travel, how will they get to the u.s. as well? you re talking about afghans that were injured in the attack? first of all, what i can report is that there were some afghans there that were part of that that were treated, by, you know, u.s. and other forces
President is being updated on constantly throughout the day and something that he s very concerned about. and it is eerie almost the extent to which the warnings are so similar to what we heard from the president and white house officials in the days leading up to yesterday s terrorist attack. and so obviously there is a sense of heightened concern. and again john kirby saying we re prepared and would expect future attacks. i think he said something about the specific threat is that they are picking up on the the intelligent. jeremy, thank you so much. general, appreciate it. nick paton walsh, thank you very much. here is the latest understanding of how the attack played out at the kabul airport. and again as we just heard in the pentagon briefing there is a lot that they still don t know. according to the head of u.s. central command, an isis attacker wearing a suicide vest apparently passed first through a taliban checkpoint and then gained access to the airport gate manned by u.
Years ago and we do have over the horizon counter capability to make sure that doesn t happen and i will leave it at that. do you believe that afghanistan could with stand isis-k, could defeat them? i think that the threat by from isis is real. and nobody wants to see that threat grow. i cannot speak, would not begin to speak for taliban capabilities or taliban intent. obviously there is significant animosity between these two groups. and they don t share interests. but i m not it would be foolish for me to try to predict to the degree which what operations the taliban may conduct against isis-k. all i could tell you is the direction that this department has is to not allow attacks on the homeland to emanate from afghanistan again. and we are committed to that.