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Live shots from there. were not trying to do that again today because it was such a chaotic situation and at a couple of points it was actually quite dangerous. take a look at what we saw. americas last foothold in afghanistan is now guarded by the taliban. >> see the taliban are all over and they wont allow anyone -- >> reporter: we have come to kabuls airport to see the gauntlet people must pass through to fly out. you can hear gunshots every couple minutes. >> cnn. cnn. quickly we are accoste...

Faced with a very dicey and intimidating situation to try to get into that airport. and we went there to try to give our audience a sense of what it looks like. americas last foothold in afghanistan is now guarded by the taliban. >> the taliban are all over. they wont allow anyone. >> reporter: weve come to kabuls airport to see the gauntlet people must pass through to fly out. >> you can hear gunshots every couple of minutes. >> cnn, cnn. >> reporter: quickly, we are accosted by an angry taliba...

Our sense of democracy and was a tribal country and was going to revert back to a tribal country the minute we took our hands off of it. thats the fundamental problem and thats what we need to understand. >> julian, some of the conversation in national security circles wasnt seriously considered by donald trump either and that was leaving a number of troops there to have eyes and ears on the ground, to make sure that al qaeda didnt regain its foothold or another terrorist group that threatened o...

Ward who is in keisha lance bottoms. th -- kabul. can even get into much less get to the airport in kabul. >> reporter: yeah. i would say, jake, its not for the feint of heart. i mean, we went today, we saw for ourselves absolute chaos, frankly. and there were far fewer people trying to get into the airport today than previous days. but it doesnt matter because the system or complete lack of system is creating a situation whereby you have these taliban fighters who are beating at people, who are...

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Footprint but eyes on that because both al qaeda but remember, isis has a foothold in afghanistan, as well, are both playing in a country that doesnt have a lot of governance outside of the major cities. >> barbara, tell us what the pentagon plan is. it sounds like getting the americans out is the first priority. there is something like five to 10,000 americans still in afghanistan and we just heard in the press conference, they got 700 out today. i mean, i dont -- it sounds like its not going a...

Do you agree with those sentiments? >> oh, absolutely. weve watched the al qaeda elements. they went to syria for a while and changed their name to try to be creative and get a foothold once isis took over there. weve seen them try to take footholds in places in africa that are ungoverned. they have relationships and continue to have relationships in afghanistan. again, remember, those big swaths of ungoverned territory in afghanistan by tora tora -- bora, bora, excuse me, theyre going to find f...

Also a marine veteran and representative, were so happy to have you with us this morning. obviously not under the circumstances. you commanded infantry in afghanistan during your time in the marines. so when you see the situation really just devolving, minute by minute, do you question at all the mission you are serving? what go through your? mind mission you >> there were two mn afghanistan. the first mission was a counter-terrorism mission. and that was designed to deny safe harbor to terroris...

People or else the taliban was not able to take control of city after city, province after province. >> andrea, we often turn to you for the perspective of what this means. what does a world look like with an afghanistan controlled by the taliban? >> reporter: almost immediately, it is certainly feared they could again become a haven for terrorists. this is, of course, what happened after the russian withdrawal and over the years in the 90s when al qaeda got their foothold in kandahar. it became...

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...