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Americas longest war has ended in humiliating collapse. the biden administration assured there wouldnt be a breathtaking collapse so was it a failure of the intelligence committee for the u.s. to be so unprepared? i put that question to james clapper. he was director of national intelligence in the obama administration. >> whether the kabul collapsed immediately or in 30 days, the outcome was the same. so we can argue about whether the number of days was predicted or not and that in itself is no...

Briefed. you can see him there sitting there in empty room. you can see the faces of american skies and c as qatar station. the clocks dont match up. showing three hour time difference between london and moscow when it is only two hours right now. some critics say that afghanistans falling should not have been such a surprise to the people in this picture. >> totally blew this one. they completely under estimated the strength of the taliban yet, the state department, secretary blinken, the in th...

Joining me is james clapper, the former director of national intelligence in the obama administration. first question to you, do you view this as an intelligence failure? >> not surprisingly, pamela, no, i dont. i think whether the kabul collapsed immediately or in 30 days, the outcome was the same. so we can argue about whether the number of days was predicted or not. that in itself is not just an intelligence call. clearly the state department and particularly the embassy itself, i think would...

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Part in this evacuation. it is the end game. kabul, it is falling -- it is fallen, but we just dont know exactly how its going to play out. there is a meeting taking place right now at the presidential palace. the taliban are at the meeting, this is according to afghan officials. and they are negotiating a surrender. they are negotiating the surrender of this city. they are not putting up much of a defense of this city. i was driving around not long ago. you dont see extra checkpoints. you dont ...

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...

Circumstances. i want to share with our viewers something you tweeted this week. you wrote, quote, being an afghan journalist in afghanistan is like writing a story about different fires in your house and report the burning of each part despite your family members being stuck there and you cant help them just in case if you dont know how it feels. how are you and your family members doing? have you heard from them recently? >> my parents are in a city under siege. i talk to them every hour. they...

About this. they should have been having these meetings weeks ago, if not months ago, and is were to going to be get a lot of innocent people killed. treasured be possibly some limited -- there should be possibly some limited airstrikes to provide support for our troops. youre putting a marines and servicemen in harms way, and i think its just a total capitulation. then you have the press, his own press secretary asking the taliban to, you know, to be international players. i dont know what the ...

Despite the gains that the taliban has made. the president seems firm in his decision. if anything, the rapid gains have bolstered the presidents thinking in ending that u.s. military presence in afghanistan, effectively ending the two decade war. the current thought is all a part of contingency planning. the public polls are with the president. americas withdrawing from afghanistan, but there is a question, christi, about what the impact of president bidens legacy will be if things go worse, if...

Dire, by the day. i mean, for anybody who thought, you know, i know -- you know, the former -- the current president -- you know, said in july, he didnt think -- i am paraphrasing -- you know, the whole country was going to fall very quickly. well, it -- it is falling, very fast. kabul is still holding. as someone who served there with the air force, what do you think of what is going on? and what the implications of it are? >> well, its entirely foreseeable. its entirely tragic. i get that, you...