US weapons become Taliban weapons in Afghanistan

The Taliban may now possess US-made planes, helicopters, howitzers and small arms left behind by the retreating Afghan forces. Jodi Vittori, co-chair of the Global Politics and Security program at Georgetown University, tells host Carol Hills about how much of the Afghan arsenal the Taliban could use, and what they would need in order to maintain it.

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