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Were seeing happen on the ground. hes got to take ownership. arthel: so the blame game in full swing in washington. but in afghanistan, the president has fled his country. the american flag has been lowered over our embassy in kabul which has been evacuated. our coverage of the taliban takeover of afghanistan continues now, and joining us right now is rebecca grant, national security and military analyst, also president of iris independent research. so, dr. grant, as the biden administration scr...

300,000 well-equipped, as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force, against something like 75,000 taliban. it is not inevitable. >> reporter: not inevitable, but apparent at this hour. so for the white house, the word now begins to transport or u.s. personnel and their afghan partners. that comes among sharp criticism if from others who say this has been a problem from the very outset with the policies on afghanistan. >> this did not happen on our watch. we reduced our forces sig...

Afghanistan with surveillance to really ascertain where the taliban are and what is going on. so our military forces need to do that so that we can make a plan for the safety of americans that are still there and so we can have some crucial intelligence about where the taliban really are and what their military condition is at this point. with ghaani gone, the taliban coup is taking place, and we need military insight into what that real position of forces is. biden has to do that as step one. a...

Deals it made with the taliban before leaving office. and, yes, theyve even blaming after began fighters for the unraveling of their country. >> i have to tell you that the inability of after a began security forces -- of afghan security forces to defend their country has played a very powerful role in what we have seen over the last few week toes. the fact is we invested, the international community invested over 20 years, billions of dollars in these to forces. >> reporter: secretary blinken s...

Can to help the american mission in that country. and theyre working hard at this white house to try to get some of those people out of harms way. arthel? arthel: absolutely, and god bless the women and the children left behind. >> reporter: yeah. arthel: oh, boy. all right. kevin corke, thank you very much. eric? >> reporter: you bet. eric: for more on afghanistans future under taliban rule yet again, foreign policy expert walid phares joins us. it seems that the fall of afghanistan seems to be...

Power because the u.n. and other countries have said you do this by force, we wont recognize you, youre a pariah state. so the taliban are hoping they can that stay on outskirts of kabul and pull off this so-called peaceful transfer of power, really a peaceful coup. arthel: does the extraction, because you mentioned, you know, the airport, youve got allies at the airport trying to strategize as well. does this extraction and drawdown debacle diminish trust from u.s. allies? >> well, it raises a ...

Be in the middle of a conflict in a foreign country forever. this has been 20 years, $2 trillion, 2,312 american lives that we remember and we honor. here is secretary of state antony blinken this morning defending what the decision has been and talking about it. here he is. >> if the president had decided to stay, all gloves would have been off. we would have been back at war with the taliban attacking our forces. the offensive throughout the country almost certainly would have proceeded. we wo...

Catastrophe in front of our own eyes. eric: what do you think the biden administration, what do you think they should have done? >> well, the initial man that was discussed with our military across the board was that we want to withdraw from the country. lets say we withdraw from one province. we dont tell afghan -- the taliban were withdrawing from all of afghanistan, we are suspending all of our support. that is, to them, a signal to do exactly what theyve done. we should have withdrawn from o...

To 5500 men and women in uniform, helping fight terrorism, and train afghani forces. ambassador james jeffrey is the former u.s. ambassador to iraq, turkey and albania and a distinguished fellow at the washington institute for near east policy. thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> your reaction to the presidents plan this week? >> one, this was an important and positive decision. i think its a mistake to cut down to the 5500. i wish he would have held at 9800. but fran...

Last night this guy said many times we passed each other on the second deck and the shooters would be talking to each other and say we know were going to die in a helicopter crash because of the helicopter reviews, not special operations. he said we know damned well whats going to happen. we talked to each other all the time. he also said that we know that one day were going to have a suicide bomber crawl on a chopper with us and weve talked to the higher ups about it, and when we talk to them a...