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Mission to train the afghan army to defend itself. to that end, we have lots of equipment. we spent a lot of money, a lot of time, and a lot of lives doing that. what we didnt do is that we -- well, we overestimated the capability of the afghan army to get rid of corrupt for them to become a 21st century force, and so we were complaisant about that. there may have been intelligence failures, too, but that consists ott not only gathering the information but processing i. if there is another fault...

We heard nothing from him. hopefully we will hear something in a few moments. no plan to date on how to do this. it has disintegrated before their highs. >> sandra: a heads up. we will confirm this. we are seeing reporting that the u.n. secretary general will make a statement on afghanistan at 2:30 p.m. eastern time. this is as the taliban continues to take more and more control. you look at the timing of this. this was predicted by so many. to withdraw all of these troops. are you surprised by ...

Investigative reports done by los angeles times and mercury news that led the legislature to reform the laws. unfortunately there arent a lot of enforcement resources and those that exist are focused primarily on elder abuse. so it is an interesting legal landscape. theres a possibility of civil actions against speers for mismanagement or intentional conduct that would amount to theft. if theres evidence that rises to level of theft, theres a possibility of some sort of criminal charge that woul...

To our afghan partners on the ground. >> mike, go ahead. >> a 20 year war in afghan if it ends with taliban rolling into kabul and carrying weapons that our allies turned over to them? >> mike, i am not -- i dont have a crystal ball. i cant see the future. what i can tell you is our troops who deployed to afghanistan after 9-11 did what they were sent from to do. prevent afghanistan from being a safe haven for terrorists attacks on our home land. and to degrade the capability of al-qaeda. a lot ...

Those who have been involved in that process as they watch this afghan army that they have spent 20 years creating simply crumbling and falling apart so there is a sense that this has been an effort that has not yielded the kind of results that it should have done. but the other point is that yes, there was a heavy reliance even in relatively recent times on a degree of western support, fairly modest in terms of numbers on the ground, but crucial in areas like airpower, the ability to call in ai...

Dramatic rooftop rescue of american diplomats in saigon. president biden leaving the white house today still for vacation scoffed as you may remember last month when he was asked if there were any similarities to what played out at the end of the vietnam war. >> president biden: none whatsoever, zero if im not mistaken. the taliban is not the north vietnam east army. theyre not remotely comparable in terms of capability. there will be no circumstance where you will see people being lifted off th...

Not allow those aircraft to fall into the hands of the taliban? >> we are always worried about u.s. commitment that could fall into an adversarys hands. thats something we never lose focus on. what actions we might take to fore stall it, i dont want to speculate about it. paul? from politico. >> [silence]. >> i guess paul is not there. jeff? >> thank you. i want to clarify something you said. you said with the air lift the military will be able to move thousands of people per day. were you speak...

Fly. but we generally want it to look like us. they indicated using equipment that never really had been used in afghanistan, intelligence, surveillance, stuff that was not in the area. and we did the same kind of stuff in iraq as well. and we tried to sort of model ourselves, our noncommissioned officer core. our leadership style to an army that was engaged in an active counter insurgency on the ground. i have to go back to the large domestic apparatus that we were building from the ground up. ...

The u.s. continue air strikes against the taliban, supporting the afghan security forces, defense officials are confident thats not going to happen for a combination of reasons. number one, as the u.s. leaves the country and as the taliban takeover, the u.s. military has very little idea of whats going on on the ground. so taking air strikes is perilous for them. they dont want to kill civilians, they dont have a sense of what theyre hitting on the ground and theres very little capability there ...

Taliban, dont attack us while we are doing this. >> the main purpose of the troop s is to conduct this mission, and as i said, the main purpose is to be based on prudence to make sure that you have what you need, and that you have reserve. if you need reserves, because we dont know how the situation is going to unfold. and it is not, he didnt choose these units, or this approach to send a message. he chose these units and approach to accomplish a mission and to make sure that he had enough capab...