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Fire two other people were injured. neighbors were able to pull one woman out of the window of her burning home it happened in santee, california, north of san diego. tonight scathing new accusations involving the january 6th capitol riot a whistleblower blasting the real-time response of the leadership of capitol police heres hallie jackson. >> reporter: new fall-out tonight from an explosive letter written by an anonymous former police officer describing officials responsible for the single ...

Hours after the riot started. he posted on twitter asking his supporters to go home but also praised them. according to karl, an aide who was there according to the video said the message had to be taped several times. in earlier tapings, trump failed to tell them to leave the capitol. whistle-blowers coming forward accusing the leadership of not properly responded to the january 6th riot. nbcs hallie jackson has that story. >> reporter: new fallout in an explosive letter from a police officer, ...

You heard specifically on the intelligence front, and perhaps the challenges this poses, the u.s. has no boots on the ground? >> reporter: i think a number of things. the notion that its been encapsulated into an 11-day surprise, a swing and miss, the intelligence assessment that didnt expect the afghan government to collapse in 11 days, it strains credibility that intelligence services were not tracking the potential for its collapse at an earlier phase and signalling warnings previously. and i...

19-year-old e-5s were predicting this but some of our greatest minds both on civilian side and uniform side absolutely missed this? i think its something that concerns me. afghanistan is done but we will be engaging all over the world. this type of intelligence failure repeated could be a threat to the national security of the united states. general mckenzie you want to try that? >> its a reasonable criticism. we will have to take a look at how we actually remain connected to the people down at ...

Critique, really, of a failure in intelligence in the u.s. intelligence community. i wonder where that puts them, you know, looking at other conflicts, how concerning that is. >> obviously, very concerning. in addition to the intelligence failure, katty, there were other factors at play. the taliban performed extremely well in the end game. pakistan provided a lot of support. there have been mistakes all along the 20 years of this journey by the u.s. military. i think that when you kind of put a...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...

Indicated that after we withdrew, that it was a likely outcome of a collapse of the military and collapse of the government. most of those intelligence assessments indicated that that would occur late fall, perhaps early winter, while we were there, though, up through 31 august, theres no intel assessment that says the governments going to collapse and the militarys going to collapse in 11 days that im aware of. >> colonel, what are we to take away from that? whats the lesson there? >> the way g...

Informant at all to me is significant. the issue i think, if you read the story, thats really important and that a lot of people are skipping over is something thats fundamental in the spy business. that is access. if you have somebody, and it looks like this person does not have access to leadership circles in the proud boys. if you have somebody thats not that significant, they can still tell you stuff like where are they meeting? when are they getting to the city? what are they talking about?...

When did it know it? that question now raised in the wake of "the new york times" report as we just noted. that says an fbi agent had an informant. according to the times during the capitol attack, this informant was providing realtime updates to his handler. lets bring in former adviser to four presidents, david gergen, and former fbi and cia official, phil mudd, to make sense of that report. phil, does this look like it was standard procedure or a possible intelligence failure? how do you see ...

Dmigt o admitting on friday to a tragic mistake, we are now learning in the final seconds before the h h hellfire missile tore through the car of an aide worker, the cia issued a warning that civilians were likely in the area, including possibly children inside the vehicle. thats according to three sources speaking with cnn. it was the military that was in charge of the strike and its unclear whether the cia knew that the military had decided to pull the trigger. a miscommunication adding to the...