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I think most people didnt think it was going last until september 11th. military commanders didnt think it would last until september 11th. somehow the reporting up the chain and you know what washington is like, theres a group think, reporting up the chain ended up saying it was going to last for months more. theres a story to tell about how the intelligence, how this intelligence failure happened. >> its a story i know you and our team are working on. i want to thank you you. i know youve had ...

That continues in afghanistan. were watching the events unfold as the situation in afghanistan continues to change by the minute. lets bring in courtney kube, as well as shannon pettypiece, who is at the white house for us. courtney, lets start with u.s. officials are pushing back on the narrative there was in fact an intelligence failure over the afghanistan withdrawal. what can you tell you about that? and why are they pushing back on that narrative? >> theres devil levels of exactly what went...

Troops having to go in, because the 2500 troops we had there and the air power would not have sufficed to deal with the situ situation. especially as we see the hollowness of the afghan security forces. from its not in the national interest to remain there. >> reporter: that reflects the sense from officials who tell us the president has no regrets about his decision. obviously hearing from the president directly in the wake of the fall of kabul is an entirely different situation. >> it certainl...

Polls show overwhelming support for ending the mission. i think what is crucial is stop pointing fingers, work together to get americans out of there and to also take care of the 20,000 including families who helped us all these years. we can point fingers later, but we must learn lessons now. and again, i think that it is not the policy that was wrong, i think the contingency planning was inadequate and richard engel is right that we should have predicted that this would happen. and finally, th...

Been these security incidents, but the defense officials who i have spoken with about this say while civilian traffic has been largely stopped today, the intent is to get it running again in the coming hours. so again, the military side, they are bringing these civilians from the u.s. embassy and some afghan civilians who may be eligible for the special immigrant visa process, theyre processing them through the military side of the airport and the intent as more u.s. military come in over the ho...

Military operations. you know, we were clearly very successful in 2001 in the wake of 9/11 going in there and toppling the taliban. now the tables have turned and now what were seeing is really a wave of taliban victories because the partners that we had in afghanistan were not capable of not only unifying themselves, but of presenting an armed force that could challenge the taliban, and that is something that we really need to take very seriously and understand because the future implications o...

And now, talk again of an intelligence failure of pretty large proportions in not realizing how quickly afghanistan would fall to the taliban this time around. really measured in minutes and hours, more than even days and weeks. what is the feeling among people youre talking to about whether this is in fact a massive intelligence failure? >> so i think this is something thats going to be debated for weeks, months, and maybe years to come of how this happened. i can tell you, you know, our collea...

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...

See those images, horrific images of what the taliban is going to do inside of afghanistan. >> its remarkable how this jury is shifting and changing on the biden white house as late as friday coming into this weekend even the taliban taken over pretty significant territory in afghanistan the biden white house is really leaning into this idea that the public was with them in politics on the war had shifted in the u.s., that was true and what were actually doing with them right now are bigger ques...

Bash the biden administration for pulling out of afghanistan, and the fashion with which they did it, in some cases likening this moment to leaving saigon during the vietnam war. alsoed biden administration plays defense, some obama officials even second-guessing the way this has gone down. oregon congress members acknowledging the realities on the ground, even as she backs up the biden administration to pull out and end americas longest war. listen. >> this is a crisis of untold proportions. i ...