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tv   Anderson Cooper 360  CNN  August 15, 2022 9:00pm-10:00pm PDT

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>> good evening, multiple new developments in overlapping threats tonight in the investigation, core, cases courtrooms and subpoenas connected with and surrounding the former president. significant news on the attempt to overturn the election, the surge of mar-a-lago and the climate of violence that he and his supporters of fomented in the wake of it. on the search tonight, the justice department late today filed objections to unsealing the affidavit that was used to obtain a warrant which a number of news outlets, including cnn were seeking. in language, suggesting the
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serious and ongoing criminal investigation, the filing argues that disclosure would quote, likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance might be saw as this investigation progresses. as well as in other high-profile investigations. in other words, this might not just be about retrieving documents. separately, the department of justice unsealed charges against a pennsylvania man accused of threatening to kill fbi agents after the search. and the former president speaking to fox, promised to help cool the climate of violence, even while inciting at some more. calling quote a very dangerous time. seiko i will do whatever i can to help the country. . then they break into the president's house, a sneak attack where it was thought that a thing like this could happen. went on to suggest the fbi planted evidence and said quote, the people of this country are not going to stay for another scam. fire to the gasoline. prosecutors in atlantic notified rudy giuliani that he
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is a target of the fulton county grandeur in vest getting the election. he responded late today, invoking his former client. >> it's just a further desecration of the sixth amendment. i was his lawyer of record in that case. the statements that i made are either attorney-client privilege, because they were between me and him, or they were being made on his behalf in order to defend him. when you start turning around lawyers, when they are defending their clients, we are starting to live in a fascist state. >> giuliani will recall falsely claimed there was widespread voting fraud in georgia, tweeting again falsely that the videotape is not lie. fulton county democrats stole the election and it's not beyond doubt, go to the tape. the tape did not show irregularities as was claimed. also to try to tie the defeat in georgia to a deceased venezuelan dictator. >> you could not possibly
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believe that the company counting our vote, with control over our vote, is owned by to venezuelans. who were allies of chavez, are present allies of maduro, with a company whose chairman is a close associate and business partner of george thorough's. the biggest donor to the democrat party, the biggest donor to antifa, the biggest donor to black lives matter. my goodness, what do we have to do to get you to give our people the truth? >> well, he is not telling the truth. in the same press conference, he said, i'm quoting now, i know crimes, i can smell them, you do not have to smell this one. i can prove it to you 18 different ways. he could not, he did not. but on three occasions, he spread those same conspiracy theories to georgia state legislators. something the fulton county da says as part of the
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investigation, which traces back to this call between the president, georgia secretary of state. >> so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11, 000, 780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> south carolina's live milligram spoke with raffensperger in the wake of the election today. federal judge denied his request and subpoenas for him to go for the fulton county grandeur. buying a successful appear, he will appear. to refresh memory, here's raffensperger recalled about his senator. >> ask that the ballots could be matched back to the voters. and i got the sense that implied that then you could throw those out. looking at the counties with the highest frequent signatures. so that is the impression that i got. just an implication that, look
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hard and see how many ballots you can throw. >> lawyers for senator graham argue that his calls to georgia officials were directly related to his responsibilities as that then chairman of the senate judiciary committee. there is also more today. we learned that the federal grand jury looking to join the six has subpoenaed former white house attorney eric herschmann. he is the one that told the former presidents election lawyer john eastman to quote, get a great criminal defence lawyer, you are going to need it. also today, new reporting in the washington post. i'm quoting. a team of computer experts, directed by lawyers, allied with president donald trump, copied sensitive data from election systems in georgia as part of a secret of multi state effort to access voting agreement that was broader, more organized and more successful than previously reported. now, if tonight we're moving, perhaps the title would be everything, everywhere, all at once. and there is also breaking news on top of all of that. on the man who may know more about the former presidents
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business and finance that anybody else. cnn's evan perez joins us with that. when are you learning? >> anderson, allen weisselberg who was a top executive with the trump organization, at the new york times, says that he is about to finalize a plea agreement with the district attorney in manhattan. as you remember, he was indicted in the summer and, he is facing these tax charges as part of a tax scheme that the da says also involves the trump organization. what is key about this plea agreement, or this anticipated plea agreement, that the new york times is reporting on, is that they say he is not expected to cooperate against the trump organization or anyone else in the trump family. we know that the da's investigation is still ongoing. though it seems to have lost steam in the last few months. right now, it appears that he is going to look at perhaps a
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five month jail sentence at the end of this. but it really gives you a sense anderson of all of the different parts of these investigations that touch on the former president. he has a host of legal problems, stretching from new york to atlanta, fulton county, to now in south florida obviously with the result of the search of his home in palm beach. >> evan, just to be clear, allen weisselberg, weren't some of the charges things like tuition was paid by the trump organization for his grandkids school or his kids school or something like that? >> right, exactly. prosecutors charged him with various tax schemes, because they were trying to see if perhaps they could pressure him and have him provide information on the alleged tax violations of the trump organization itself. that seems to have petered out. it seems that they are ready to sign a deal with weisselberg,
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without getting any of that cooperation that they were hoping to get against either the organization, or members of the trump family. >> appreciate, it joining us now, conservative attorney george conway, cnn contributor and former nixon counsel john dean. george, what do you make about the weisselberg deal? a lot of people looked, like he is the guy who knows where the proverbial bodies are buried, in terms of taxes and finances. >> not all that surprised, we saw the resignation of those two prosecutors earlier from the manhattan da's office, because they felt that the new incoming da was not ready to pursue the case in the way that the prior one was. so, i think that this is what we see new york, really going to be focused on the civil side, the new york attorney general who has the authority under a very broad civil statute to bring charges of fraud and insurance fraud and tax fraud. thank fraud. against the trump organization over the trump family. and she would meet a lower burden of proof.
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would only have to prove that her case b five preponderance of the evidence. and she got a lot of traction, because donald trump pled the fifth amendment, 440 times. and in a civil case, they can use that to infer facts against him and against the trump organization. >> john dean, when you think about how significant this nurses and if it is? >> i was a little surprised. i thought they would squeeze him a little harder. five months, i think he probably figures that he can do that standing on his hands. so he is willing to go and get it behind him. i assume he thinks that trump will take care of it. that it is a fair deal and had been taking care of it. so he is not going to -- if you will. i don't know if they're going to press that cause harder in the criminal court. i think george is right on on the civil case. is dynamite and going to hurt trump a lot. probably financially much more
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than any criminal court will do. >> it seems like it's over. >> gloria, in terms of rudy giuliani, the fulton county georgia investigation, i know you have some reporting about his granary appearance this week. >> i spoke with his attorney boxed 11 all i can tell you for sure is that he is going to appear. but that is about all we know. his attorney said to me that he made it clear to the georgia prosecutors that quote, if you think he is going to talk to you about conversations he had with his client, you are delusional. then he also said to me, they want to play hardball, we know how to play hardball. they are calling it a political stunt. so anderson, it doesn't really sound productive to me. it seems to me like he is going to follow the lead of the president of the united states in pleading the fifth. >> giuliani has been told that he is the target of the shorter
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probe, legally, what does that mean for him exactly? >> he's in deep trouble. if you are a target of the probe, that means they're thinking of and are likely considering indicting you. they are telling you that. and i think that is very interesting that they are doing that, because it shows that the georgia fulton county da's office is looking at this case in a very holistic way. in a way that the january six committee is looking at it. they are not just looking at the call that trump made to raffensperger, they are not just looking at the call that graham made to raffensperger, they're looking at fake electors and in the case of rudy giuliani, his involvement in all the other stuff, but also his involvement in attempting to influence the georgia legislature and making false statements to the georgia legislature about the existing fraud. you know, you can say whatever you want on tv, but if you make false statements to the government, government officials like the legislators, that is potentially a crime. >> if they were turned i
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giuliani, does that mean there is a higher chance that something would happen to the former president? >> of course. this is part, they are looking at this as a broad, over arching conspiracy, a multi pronged conspiracy of involving attempts to improperly influence the secretary of state, attempts to improperly influence the legislature and lie to the legislature. also attempt to create these false states and fraudulent electors. so they are looking at this, not in terms of just individual one-off charges, but are looking at it as a broad criminal conspiracy. at the top of that conspiracy, is donald j trump. >> john, all this talk about attorney-client privilege, that is not cover and then turning engaged in potential criminal activity, does it? where does this lead giuliani? >> absolutely not, there is something called the crime fraud exception. and if they are sitting and talking about criminal activity, they are is no attorney client
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privilege. this case, that fani willis is bringing and developing, lots of hands it's going to be a rico case. those can be very sweeping with predicate acts that are criminal activities in many jurisdictions, outside of georgia. so this could be a big case. she is already named several other targets. she is experienced in rico cases. a very tough won a few years ago. she's also hired the foremost authority in georgia on rico cases. so i think that this is moving ahead at full speed. i expect that it will be a pretty devastating case that will include donald trump. >> the irony of that if my memory serves me correct in my time in new york, was that giuliani actually made a name for himself by going after a mob figures with rico. certainly some ire need here. is there, with rico cases, don't usually go for like, the
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low hanging fruit in the open really hit them hard, in the hopes that they will turn on people higher up the chain? . is there any chance giuliani would do that? >> that's possible. with a, do they take the predicate acts, which are other criminal activity and charge them against the organization that is part of the conspiracy. that would be the campaign and all of those who worked with the campaign and they would sweep them all in. now, often because they are much higher penalties on these rico cases. you get people that rudy is very used to doing, squeezing and getting them the help. i do not know if he is willing to do that, but i do not think that he wants to spend his retiring years in a georgia present either. >> we also know that a number of the fake electors have been told that they have been targets. themselves and giuliani's lawyers said to me today, they were all told that they were
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targets, we kept asking, we asked about half a dozen times, they would not tell us if we were a target. now we discover two days before the hearing that suddenly we are a target. they have no responsibility to tell him way in advance, but that should have been a really big hint. >> clear borger, john dean, george conway, thank you so much, appreciate it. next, more on the threats of the fbi, in the wake of the mar-a-lago search of homeland security secretary joins us. later, congresswoman liz cheney, on the eve of her primary, the republican investigator, the former president is facing from public voters. (energetically) you guys are crushing it! see how the 8 grams of healthy protein in land o' frost premium meat gives you energy and keeps you full? let's get those buns toastin' bread. cheese. 10 more. go! ♪ i'm getting shredded! ♪ make the smart choice. land o'frost premium meat.
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to keep a lid on further disclosures about mar-a-lago searches fascinated suggests about where the investigation might lead. fortunately, we already know where it's lead when it comes to threats against the fbi. they've grown sharply last week, including an attempt to kill agents and cincinnati. today charges were unsealed against a pennsylvania man who allegedly wrote online that he
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was willing to die in order to harm as many ex fbi agents as possible. there's that, as the former president continues to incite anger at the bureau. in a moment i will talk to the -- first, cnn's jessica snider. what is the latest? >> anderson, we signed the doj in a court filing today. they're arguing forcefully against the public release of that affidavit. this is actually would provide the basis for the search warrant that media companies, including cnn are arguing to unseal, but federal investigators, they're telling the judge in this filing just how detrimental releasing it will actually be their ongoing investigation. really crucially here, anderson, doj has disclosed a major detail in this filing, and it's that prosecutors have actually talked to more than one witness in the course of this classified material investigation, meaning there may have been more than one person who tipped them off the classified material still up at mar-a-lago until the search last week. in this filing as well, the doj is telling the stretch that if
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this affidavit is unsealed right now, we would really compromise the entire investigation. it would have a negative effect on witnesses who already have agreed or who maybe will agree in the future to cooperate, so really here, the doj is saying the stakes to keep this affidavit sealed are high. it's really clear at this point that the criminal investigation into classified material is ongoing. meaning people are still talking to the doj and prosecutors continue to take on this and probably other things as well. >> was the former president announcing about this? >> trump gave a print interview for fox news's digital site today. he said a number of things. he said that his webs reached out to the justice department to offer help in what he said would be tamping down the outrage in this country. the former president said the
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temperature has to be brought down. trump in this interview said he has not heard back from the doj. but that is likely because officials have already been quite clear that it's trump's rhetoric that is driving many of these threats against law enforcement. we've seen threats in particular against those two special agents whose names were revealed by -- after trump's team provided that conservative outlet with the unredacted copies of the search warrant. while trump is saying, telling fox that the country is in this very dangerous position, at this point, it really is the former president who has stirred up a lot of this dangerous sentiment we have seen boil over here. >> even in this fox interview, as we saw the top of the broadcast, he says that on the one hand, and on the other hand he still continues to stir the pot on this and trying to ratchet up the rhetoric. jessica schneider, i appreciate your perspective. -- secretary in the obama administration. secretary apollo tunnel, when
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you look at the number in the specificity of these threats to federal officials, including threats to place a dirty bomb in front of fbi headquarters, i'm one and what your reaction is. have you seen anything like this? >> i think we all ought to be quite concerned, because as we have seen develop over time and particularly during the last few years, words are quickly being turned over into actual violent actions. so, you know, the men and women in law enforcement in our country, the men and women of the fbi i worked with many of them over the years. they're very dedicated professional individuals, and to have them at risk at all, it's really appalling. i can't think of another word for it. it's appalling. >> a pennsylvania man was arrested for violent threats against the fbi on a social media network. when it comes to social media, does it make it easier to identify threats? they're making them in public, or is it more difficult because it's hard to tell who is serious and who isn't?
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>> i think in terms of how you go from what is posted on social media to actually going into going into a conversation with an individual who did the posting, the problem is there's so much of it now, that that's an additional burden on law enforcement to kind of track down who is putting these posts out there, and ascertaining whether they are a serious threat or not. >> it's not just people on social media. i mean, there are members, elected members of congress who have been calling for defunding the fbi. destroying the fbi. to have this coming from -- i mean, lindsey graham was on fox several nights ago. the host was saying that the fbi was planting evidence and routinely does this. he was sitting there kind of nodding along, not objecting 20 of it. he's on the judiciary committee.
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>> yes. and the defund the fbi, that's just ridiculous. the fbi is the nation's premier federal law enforcement agency. they work day in and day out to protect women and men of this country, just as the women of the department of homeland security and throughout the federal law enforcement world. also state and local law enforcement. they get wrapped up into this as well. i think, particularly for those members of congress, those who hold elected office, they need to take a step back, take a deep breath, and really recognize the harm that they are causing to the law enforcement operations of the united states. >> you're not only a former head of the department of homeland security, but you're also attorney general of arizona. have you heard anything that makes you think the search for the former president's residence was not lawfully carried out?
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>> no. from what i can tell. and i was a former u.s. attorney for arizona as well, and i worked with merrick garland at that time, and for a search of this type to be conducted, i have every assurance that every i was dotted and he was crossed. they're not messing around with this one. >> you're also the former governor of arizona, which obviously has swung for a democrat in the last presidential election for the first time since 96. arizona's gop nominees for governor for u.s. senate and arizona secretary of state, they're all promoters of the former presidents lies at the 2020 election was fraudulent. do you think enough is being done to secure our election systems with the midterms just three months away? >> right. as we know, every election system has managed at the state and local level, but i can say with confidence that the arizona election system has been run very well by
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republicans and by democrats for decades, and so, to have a cast of nominees and arizona where all election deniers and fraudsters and all the rest is disappointing, to say the least. >> janet napolitano, thank you for your time. >> you bet. >> coming up, plus cheney facing voters in wyoming tomorrow. can she survive a trump backed challenger's. jeff zeleny is there with republican voters and with their sane, next.
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ten house republicans murmured four is a peach, meant for retiring, three lost and primary races and only to have one there. then there is congresswoman liz cheney, the last attempt to face republican voters, the vice chair of the house select committee she's facing republican voters in the primaries tomorrow. there is an uphill fight against it. candidate endorsed by the former president, jeff zeleny is in wyoming talking with voters there. >> we need to set on partisan differences. and understand that there is something much bigger at stake here. >> on the eve of the wyoming primary, liz cheney is in an uphill fight to hold her
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congressional seat. even as she begins eyeing the next steps and a bigger battle ahead. >> many people will come up to me and say i never voted for you before, but i'm gonna do it this time and i say great. let's keep that going. >> a republican from one of the states -- jamie's become a paria h interim party. she's turning to democrats and independents for a last-minute lifeline. >> i never thought i'd vote for cheney, but she has earned my respect. >> and at langley such as a proud democrat, she's done in line for nearly an hour today to change parties and vote republican. >> she might not win, but she needs as much support as possible for doing what she's
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doing. >> the odds are long, considering how former president donald trump shadow lives large in wyoming. the states rolling summer beauty has been punctuated by a scorching political campaign between chaining and harriet hagman. >> we're fed up with liz cheney? [applause] >> if a crossover doesn't change save cheney, her admirers hope it will avoid a -- trump would revel. and >> liz, you're fired get out of here. mike sullivan the former democratic governor of wyoming, who served three decades ago. >> wyoming, always a trail blazer. >> he planted a cheney side in his front yard to send a message for democracy, and the rule of law. >> without regard to her politics, she's reflected herself as a leader. i think history will prove the legacy that she leaves will be -- >> that whole impeachment in january six, the hearing thing she probably would've been all right.
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i don't think she's gonna recover from that. from what i could. see >> the outcome of tuesday's primary may clear whether such hidden cheney vote exists. or if republicans reward her for not changing her positions in the face of a brutal campaign. >> i will never violate my oath of office, if you're looking for somebody who well, you need to vote for somebody else on this stage. i won't. >> these days cheney's hard to find, outside of friendly audiences and house parties, which aides to tribute to rising threats of violence. she told cnn last month, she was well aware of the head winds facing her >> i don't intend to lose, but some things are more important than any individual office or political campaign. >> she -- joins us from jackson, wyoming, if she falls for tomorrow on the primary, what's next? >> well, anderson, the next thing is back to the hearings. january six hearings are gonna resume in september.
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that's gonna be her focus throughout the fall. don't forget she still has that congressional seat until early january. but i'm told, her speech tomorrow evening if she does fall short is gonna offer a roadmap for the next steps for liz cheney. her advisers told me that she's gonna remain very much involved in the fight ahead. of course that would mean our central focus has been as she's trying to keep donald trump out of the oval office again. so, we don't know if she will actually come out and say she plans to run in 2024, but look for some guidance untold about what our next steps are, likely forming some type of group, externally to help other a luckin candidates. the bottom line is, this is definitely not the end of her career if she fell short tomorrow. but the beginning of a very new chapter. >> interesting traveler, no doubt, jeff zeleny thank. you afghanistan, one year after the taliban returns to power. it's been a year, clarissa ward was in kabul the day they took out the capitol. she's there tonight, reporting with what's life like for millions facing hunger there. there.
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with xfinity mobile. or add a line to your plan today at xfinitymobile.com it was one year ago today, u. s. embassy came down. taliban had computed the return
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to power two decades after the u.s. invasion following the attacks of 9/11, it was a terrifying day for many people who are there. as the security situation deteriorate at the airport, the pentagon had to double the number of troops, afghans fearing repercussions from the taliban were rushing to the airport desperate to get out. amid the chaos, the airport gazed over the coming days there was fear of terrorist attacks. 11 days later, it happened. 13 u.s. service members, 170 afghans were killed. cnn's clarissa ward was in kabul when the taliban returned, tonight she's back in afghanistan, it could be facing a whole slew of challenges now the taliban's taken charge. >> it's a three-hour journey from shaquille is home to the center of kabul. but each morning she and other women make this walk driven by hunger with the need
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to feed their children. their destination is this bakery. one of many across the capital where crowds of women now sit patiently every day. quietly hoping for handouts. >> all the women have been pressing pieces of paper with their phone numbers and they're desperately hoping that maybe we could help them. >> shaquille let tells us on a good day they might get two or three pieces of bread. every morsel counts. >> were you doing this a year ago, or has the situation become worse in the last year? >> there is no work this year, she says. my husband has a card, but now he only earns 30 to 40 cents a day. one year after the taliban took power, afghanistan is isolated and increasingly impoverished. largely cut off from the global banking system and the foreign aid that once funded almost 80%
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of this country's budget. it is also unmistakably safer. one thing the taliban has been able to improve is security. outside kabul's airport, shops are open and streets are calm. yeah excuse me. far cry from the chaotic scenes we's witnessed last summer. you told me to cover my face. but he does not want to comment on what he's carrying. tens of thousands risked life and limbs to try to flee the country. many feared for their lives. others that the taliban would take the country back to the middle ages. -- many feared for their lives. others that the taliban would take the country back to the middle ages. for these girls, that fear has come true. they were just a year out from
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graduating. the taliban announced a de facto ban on girls secondary education after sixth grade. now they have improvised ways to defy the ban, sitting up unofficial schools where they continue their studies. now he'd so that's dreams of a diploma may have vanished, but her drive has not. >> i say to myself that i am so powerful. i'm strong. these things can't break my big dreams. wet i want to do. >> do you ever feel scared? >> yes. it's so risky for us. we don't cover our face. we study. >> you are very brief. >> yes, i know. >> girls education is one of the main reasons no country and the world has yet recognized the taliban government. a point we put to foreign
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ministry spokesman, abdullah. when will the taliban allow teenage girls to go back to school? >> from the perspective of the government, there's a range of mix of issues that has led to the temporary suspension of secondary schools. the most important and significant part of this is that the policy of the government of afghanistan's education for all citizens of afghanistan. >> yet all the citizens are not currently able to get an education. what is the holdup? >> it seems that international actors are unfortunately weaponizing the issue of education, instead of coming forward and interacting positively, they are trying to find moral justifications for some of the inhumane policies of sanctions, which is leading to the collective punishment of the entire people of afghanistan. >> do you want to see girls going to school again? >> the policy of the government of afghanistan is very clear.
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and that is education for all citizens of afghanistan. >> the taliban says it wants to see peaceful and positive relations with all countries, including the u.s.. but those prospects were dramatically diminished. the head of al-qaeda, ayman al-zawahiri was killed by u.s. drone strike in a villa in downtown kabul just over two weeks ago. >> we've made it very clear that the government of afghanistan was unaware of the arrival of presence of mr. zawahiri in kabul. so far, we haven't been unable to establish -- as a matter of fact, that mr. zawahiri was indeed present --
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>> is not almost more frightening, the idea that you are claiming the leader of al-qaeda was here in the center of the city and you did not even know about it? >> we contend in the notion that he was -- even if he was, these types of incidents happen everywhere in the world. >> but they really don't. how can the u.s. possibly trust the taliban leadership to stay true to its promise that it will not allow sanctuary to be granted to terrorist groups? >> if we look at the doha agreement, the articles that define the commitments of the government of afghanistan, all of them had been fulfilled. if we look at the commitments that the united states of america has made, sadly, they have not fulfilled a single article. but we are hopeful and continue to urge the united states to add to that agreement. >> it's a brazen position that
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complicates efforts to unfreeze funding, to help the afghan people. millions of whom remain hungry and reliant on the kindness of strangers. >> clarissa joins us now from kabul. it's heartbreaking to see that young woman you interviewed, who so strong and brave. and still learning, and the arguments from the spokes man, it makes no sense. they want everyone to go to school, but for some reason girls shouldn't be the ones that can't? >> i think the real frustration, anderson, is that we pressed him repeatedly even beyond what you just saw in the pace. as to why exactly, girls can't go to school. what are the issues? because everyone is willing to help out here in the international community. western conference, eastern countries, do they need buses, do they need uniforms, isn't an issue of the curriculum? and there is no specific answer being given as to what the holdup does. we've spoken to several sources though, that tell us that even within the taliban, the vast majority of their leaders, do want to see girls going to school.
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but there is some kind of hold up because, certain hard-liners are just entrenched in their very antiquated views on the subject. because the group only wants to show it's having a face of complete consensus, they're lagging behind on this. but they're feeling the pressure. and for those girls though, anderson, as you said it doesn't look good. there's no eminent prospect that there's going to be a major change on this front. >> what's happened to the people that helped the u.s. military who were then left in afghanistan, after the u.s. withdrew? >> i mean, they're everywhere. there's tens and thousands of them according to the state department. nearly 160,000 afghans are eligible to apply for the special immigrant visa. and the u.s. understandably is completely snow down under, they're being processed at a glacial right, in part because if your radical, interviews that are necessary would have
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taken place at the u.s. embassy here in kabul obviously that's not possible anymore and people who are trapped here can't get to a third country to do those interviews with. the state department saying, they might not be able to process all these visa applications by the end of president biden's term. but i can't stress enough, anderson, we get phone calls, messages from people all the time and even today, when we are out in the middle of the city during a sort of taliban celebration. a man came up to me and said, i don't feel comfortable talking to here but this is my name, my phone number i used to be interpreted for the u.s. military and i desperately need your help. and the frustration for us, is we can't help, it's a very difficult process. >> clarissa ward, so glad you're there, thank you very. much. up next, the latest on author salman rushdie's condition. the reaction to the brutal attack across the globe. here not just any razor will do venus for pubic hair and skin with a patented irritation defense bar
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tonight author salman rushdie is recovering from an attack upstate new york friday, that left severe injuries according to the county district attorney. rushdie was taken off the ventilator for the weekend, but is being treated for stabs and other injuries. this comes as authorities are investigating the attacker courtesy that he acted alone. joining night out with the latest is shimon prokupecz. >> he's doing okay, he's speaking with investigator being able to ask questions, but the key thing here is the suspect hadi matar, who he is in what this is all about is -- trying to figure out. was someone else behind this, was he motivated by someone to conduct this attack. there's only 24 years, old so there's some concern that someone was directing him someone overseas. that's something that certainly the fbi is looking at that is why they're involved in this --
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implication and the fact that this was an attempted assassination of -- something concerning for u.s. officials. >> there's been a reaction from u.s. state department, and also iran? >> iran, essentially the foreign ministry releasing a statement saying that they didn't direct this attack. but they're blaming him for, that they're blaming him and his supporters for this attack from the state department, also coming out browsing that response from the iranian officials, saying that it's despicable, they're also saying that the iranians have been loading this attack, hockey overs attack. they're raising all kinds of concerns. the bottom line right now for the fbi, is to see if someone else was perhaps behind this attack. >> shimon prokupecz, we appreciate it. coming up, the first active nfl player to announce he's gay, making a return to a familiar team, details next.
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