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That the president still has full confidence in his intelligence team. the u.s. is in a position where we have to negotiate with the taliban to facilitate safe passage of americans behind enemy lines. now the taliban is armed with significant u.s. military weapons that fell into their hands. they had been belonging to the afghan government. we know the president met with his whole national security team about getting americans and allies out. numerous reports have emerged suggesting the fallout ...

Will be the thrust of _ enough, this scheme. i think that will be the thrust of many - enough, this scheme. i think that will be the thrust of many of- enough, this scheme. i think that will be the thrust of many of the l will be the thrust of many of the specific questions on the here and now as far as the government response to what we are seeing it afghanistan is concerned. there is the big picture questions you can expect the prime minister to face. go back to where the going into afghanista...

>> and, kaitlan, president biden -- weve been talking about this now for several days. he wants to talk about the decision to withdraw all u.s. troops from afghanistan more than he wants to talk about how this withdrawal has gone, how inept the exit has been. hes basically told stephanopoulos all this was baked into the decision. he said the jurys still out but the likelihood the taliban is going to be running the whole country is highly unlikely. that was last month. >> yeah, just a few weeks a...

0 personnel in danger, as well. kristen: sheriff martin, thank you very much. well have the latest on the fire at 4:00. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the abc news exclusive with president biden. his first interview since the fall of afghanistan to the taliban. president biden one-on-one with george stephanopoulos. the president said just weeks ago, a taliban takeover was highly unlikely. so, was the intelligence wrong or did the president downplay it? how the president responds...

Create a transition process in which afghans could be assured of a safely removal to america, not to mention an orderly exit for diplomats and aid workers is appalling and inexplicable. do you think the president fully owned that today? because, you know, theyre still claiming that theyre going to be able to get out the tens of thousands of afghans and their families who have sacrificed themselves and helped the americans over these last 20 years. that seems hard to imagine. >> well, they certai...

Afghans and their families. who have sacrificed themselves and helped the americans, over these last 20 years. that seems hard to imagine. >> well, they certainly made clear that they had made mistakes and they werent prepared. its interesting to read some of the stories that the taliban -- um -- were prepared. they, clearly, were bribing, intimidating, and inducing officials in the central government and in the provincial governments. to take this thing down much faster than we realized. thats ...

Afghanistan if there is a significant deterioration in security, that could well happen. we discussed this before. i dont think its going to be something that happens from a friday to a monday. >> but the likelihood there is going to be the taliban over running everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> the afghan security forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country. >> well, obviously, they lacked the will as biden pointed out. those assessments, ...

Anticipated. >> what was missing from following that, anderson, is why it changed -- why it was different. why it unfolded differently than they had expected because thats when a big question facing the white house is, was this an intelligence failure? was this a strategy failure? was it a combination of the two? because it has put a lot of scrutiny on his foreign policy and the way they withdrew, not the fact that -- that they withdrew, which is what he spent a majority of the speech today defe...

>> thank you so much for being on this morning. still ahead on "morning joe," our next guest says what were seeing in afghanistan is an intelligence failure on the same level as iraqs weapons of mass destruction and downplaying the rise of isis. republican congressman peter m meijer joins us next on "morning joe." joins us next on "morning e. in the race to succeed, does somebody always have to fail? lets give everybody a fair shot. because when that happens, weve all made it. ♪ ♪ ♪ beca...

Recent days, but it is also clear that the message he wanted to get out, already started the finger-pointing between agencies, the defense department saying that it was the state departments fault, that they had been slow to get the sivs out of afghanistan. the intelligence community pushing back and saying there was no intelligence failure. we told people over the years, we told the defense department that the afghan military could -- would likely fall apart after the u.s. leaves. so there has ...