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Lot earlier under the u.s. leadership, at least. >> i think the speed and scale of the taliban advance, they took over the whole country including the capital in just 11 days, i think that did catch everybody unawares not just in the western capitals. i think probably in beijing and moscow. they were surprised by the speed and scale, as well. as soon as we being, we got evacuation plans under way and weve been evacuating people since 13 august. were not letting up for an instant. we recognize th...

The city is ready. this is about as good as the weather is going to get in the next 12 to 18 hours as this storm moves north. but people say they are ready. the sandbags are in place. people are starting to hunker town. people are getting a last look before the storm. we think the tornado danger has passed. there was a confirmed tornado two and a half hours ago. we seem to be out of that warning period. at least we hope for now. the big question will remain the flooding. the question is how long...

Was in trouble. they expected an indictment. what was in it, financial crimes and false statements and knew he was cooperating recently when he called off the defense agreement. so those things we knew. the timing was a surprise. mueller does not call the white house and give them a heads up on these things. so the timing was a surprise. they did have to find out about it from tv news and the guilty plea element was a surprise. i would also say that muller is so crafty at laying these little nug...

A lot of news organizations have been preparing their mike flynn packages of coverage in anticipation. >> absolutely. everyone knew -- not everyone. a lot of people close to the president certainly knew flynn was in trouble. they expected an indictment. what was in it, financial crimes and false statements and knew he was cooperating recently when he called off the defense agreement. so those things we knew. the timing was a surprise. muller does not call the white house and give him a heads up....

Seemingly caught the u.s. by surprise, or did it? >> well, i think instinctively, based on my understandinof what took place in cairo is that it did catch everybody by surprise, including, of course, the cia. there has been a lot of warnings. there was a massive amount of demonstrators that have taken to the streets, the so-called youth movement. that is largely responsible for what were seeing in the streets and in tahrir square. what were they protesting? the shammed parliamentary elections th...