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And whats remarkable is, if you take a step back and look at what weve been hearing out of the u.s. side during this taliban offensive is that the afghan military is 350,000 strong and that they have this asymmetric advantage of the air force that the taliban does not have. and so because of that, they should be able to take on the taliban which, when the offensive began, they were numbering somewhere around 77, 75,000 taliban fighters. thats just proven to be untrue. it just shows that the very...

Knowing that they would have potential medevacs, that they would have personnel recovery assets at their capability if needed, that all went away when the u.s. announced that they were going to have the military out within just a couple weeks from now. and it caused a real morale problem in the afghan military. so the assessments that said that afghan military would continue to fight against the taliban, well, that didnt factor that in and it didnt factor in one other enormous thing, and that is...

0 jaw-dropping developments. >> thank you, dan. appreciate it. we are nearing the top of the hour right here on msnbc as we continue to watch these live pictures coming from the city of kabul. a city that is right now encircled by the taliban. by some reports, the taliban have been spotted within the streets of the city. there are reports that negotiations are taking place within the presidential palace there in the capital city. its not clear if ashraf ghani who is taking part of those negotiat...

0 latest on the situation. thank you. the fall of kabul appears to be imminent is the headline. >> were sure courtney will be with us throughout the day, as well as our steam of correspondents to follow the latest. thanks for watching msnbc reports, "velshi" starts right now. im ali velshi, were departing from our normal format for the news out of afghanistan where the taliban is closing in on kabul. the biggest city in the country. it does appear to be surrounded. this map is the latest we ha...

The case against david camm, the defense argued, was as preposterous this time around as it was before. who could possibly buy the prosecutions overly complicated theory that david left the basketball game to kill his family? >> there is absolutely no way he could have left that gym. you have to believe that he knew when he was going to get to sit out. he timed it perfectly so it would be right at the time he was going to meet charles boney and murder his family. it is beyond belief what he woul...

Afghan military and commandos, will they be able to hold them off. the worry is if the taliban breach kabul, theyll head for the airport and will have cut off people, civilians, from leaving. thats one of the major reasons we are seeing the deployment of u.s. troops and other troops, the british military. people, other western allies are sending their military in to get their civilians out. and it is a concern that the kabul airport would be under threat if talibans get into the city, ayman. >> ...

Fight. they have a 205 wear that is a stronger and more capable military element. and they were not able to overrun. sometimes there was reports they were folding but not just that. the commandos. they were sent to some bigger cities to shore them up and they still fell in some cases. but they were exhausted. they wore them down. and they had tonight so many and they are just tired and worn out. when youre talking about kabul, yes. there is more capable fighter there is and it is not just that

Getting americans some of the candidates out. the idea of extending air strikes beyond the 31st, seems to be no appetite for that. if the white house and president biden change their mind on that, absolutely, the military could step in. they have the ability and i am sure they have plans ready. theres no appetite for that. i have to touch on something. general mccaffrey made a point about afghan special ops and commandos. theyre well trained, capable fighters. the problem now that we are seeing ...

Afghan forces clearly are not able to stem the tide. we are seeing major cities falling to the taliban, falling like dominoes, pamela. today herat, afghanistans third largest city also imminently expected to fall, kandahar, the second largest city, the spiritual heartland. the capital hasnt fallen yet but it will. we were there less than a week ago and at the front line position with afghan commandos that. frontline position is now completely under control of the taliban. pamela? >> i want to br...

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