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I just play the tape of biden denying that. so the president lied. why would the president lied about that? >> i think the very simple question is covering up his tracks in the middle of an ongoing fiasco. he gave that interview to george stephanopoulos i think the day after kabul failed and we saw afghans clinging to the sides of the sea 17 and plummeting to their death. joe biden has always liked to talk tough about how he stood up to the generals when he was vice president and he was the only...

Denying that. so the president lied. why would the president lied about that? >> i think the very simple question is covering up his tracks in the middle of an ongoing fiasco. he gave that interview to george stephanopoulos i think the day after kabul failed and we saw afghans clinging to the sides of the sea 17 and plummeting to their death. joe biden has always liked to talk tough about how he stood up to the generals when he was vice president and he was the only one who said that barack obam...

Three star general, the commanding general at fort hood in texas a. i have to say general milley is a capable guy but hes someone who responds to whoever is in power. when donald trump was president he was very, very close to donald trump. he did what trump wanted. as soon as joe biden came into power, it was dizzying how quickly milley spun around and i got to say, milleys conduct in afghanistan, the disaster of afghanistan, abandoned bagram, abandoning americans behind, there are a lot of reas...

What i heard. first of all, prior to the taliban providing perimeter security there was no security and tens of thousands of afghan people in the airport. we did not know who these people were. it wasnt only people we invited in. >> we controlled the airport. not the city. >> we had tens of thousands of people in kabul airport. the reports we were getting on the ground is many didnt -- had no form of i.d. whatsoever. when i went to fort mccoy i asked the commanding general again every contingenc...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

For Appomattox resident Maj. Gen. Scott West, Sept. 11, 2001, was just another day at his job in the Pentagon.

Can you imagine the reaction of the american people? >> was the war in afghanistan ultimately a failure? >> the 20-year war in afghanistan was for the results that we have achieved were not worth the cost. >> that will just an excerpt of our documentary. and cnns nic robertson joins me now from kabul. youve been covering this for us since the beginning. i have to say i was taken aback when a two-time commanding general in afghanistan and also former u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, when he said t...

>> the president forcefully defended his decision to fully withdraw the united states military after two decades of occupation in afghanistan. those final moments look like this. this is an image of a last american soldier to leave the country. his name is major general chris donohue, commanding general of the 82nd airborne and this is before he boarded to take off from kabul. today this photo of the last remaining diplomats from kabul. the acting u.s. ambassador to afghanistan wilson is the man...

Sewage and drainage continues to be a major issue. >> in near by jefferson parish, theyre talking about getting busses to get people who stayed out of there because there is no water, power, cell service. ali, amazing reporting. i know very little sleep. thank you, sir. take very good care to yourself. to the end of two decades of war in afghanistan is tonight in the hands of the taliban. 17 military jets took the final flights out of kabul at one minute before midnight local time there. the l...