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Afghan security forces weve invested in, that force proved incapable of defending the country and that did happen more rapidly than we anticipated. >> i always promise the american people that i will be straight with you. the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated. >> its crucial theyre being honest but this is an incredible failure. was it an intelligence failure? isnt even 90 hours or did they ignore intelligence? we dont know. the taliban holds that country firmly in its g...

Ground several thousand of those have already arrived in country focused on holding that airport in kabul and getting those afghans to the airport and on to planes off to the united states, some of them potentially to third party countries but youre right, don, in terms of what we did not hear from the president, it was while he acknowledged that we missed -- the united states missed how quickly the taliban would advance, we still have not heard from president biden eye exwhy exactly that is. th...

Now. were the ones that asked them to come in with us after 9/11 and they did so, and they spent a lot of money and they lost a lot of lives, and the decision made by the american was an afghan policy review done completely by the americans. at lies were no part of it. they were informed, and the intelligence failure on the ground is owned by the biden administration, the fact that we left and the taliban took over and the airport was not secured and those horrible photos we saw yesterday of afg...

Focus of his speech was advocating for the withdrawal overall, something we have long known was going to be his position, though he did acknowledge their expectations were not what actually happened. listen to what he said. >> we planned for every contingency, but i always promised the american people that i will be straight with you. the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. >> what was missing from following that, anderson, is why it changed, why it was different. why...

Because... thats why this withdrawal is so tragic, it puts us potentially exactly where we were before september 11, 2001, the return of al-qaeda and other terrorist groups right back in the same threatening environment. iran on my final question is about us intelligence and foreign policy. there has been so much about how quickly this took place. president biden admitted to it. and was shocked at the speed with which this has happened. what does that say about intelligence on new terroristic gr...

Administrations national security officials just an hour or so ago, 10,000 to 15,000 u.s. citizens are still in afghanistan according to two senate aides and that is the most concrete figure given so far and there is no plan to evacuate americans who are not at the kabul airport as congressman moulton noted because there are difficulties in getting people through those taliban checkpoints that are outside the afghan capital. so that is the primary concern on peoples minds and a crisis of confide...

In terms of what we heard -- the united states missed how quickly the taliban would advance. we, still, have not heard, from president biden, um, why, exactly, that is. what was the failure here? we have had officials here at the white house tell us this was not an intelligence failure. you heard something very similar from the pentagon spokesman, john kirby, today. but ultimately, you know, those are the questions that -- that remain unanswered here and president biden is going to have to answe...

Without a leader, without even talks, but he did leave with four cars full of cash. our taxpayer dollars. one chopper full of cash and in uzbekistan right now this guy went to columbia. this guy had no interest in afghanistan. he was enriching himself. and now he has got to be arrested and for him to sacrifice his entire country and for us to count on him is an intelligence failure. i want every dollar of that back. he needs to be put in jail. ainsley: joe biden said mr. begany, who is the leade...

For the first time in its history of nech. t they should have been paid back with better. >> when we get to whether this was an intelligence failure or failure to listen to intelligence or a lot of things we dont know, let me ask you about the now former afghan president. he came to the white house in june. biden tells ghani well stick with you. ghani fled afghanistan as it fell. the first one out the door basically. biden blames ghani yesterday. hes clearly really angry, right? ghani is folding...

Now to the fallout from the taliban rise in afghanistan. we knew we would eventually see photos after president biden announced our withdrawal, seems that nobody expected how fast it happened, including the president himself. it is unclear how we got the timing so wrong. now it is raising questions for the u.s. intelligence community. this headline says it all. intelligence reports from afghanistan missed one key element. speed. lets bring in former cia director john brennan. director brennan, i...