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The situation is because of an intelligence failure. ken dilanian, what have you been learn? >> the picture were getting is a bit more nuanced than perhaps some people might believe. what we are being told is that the i u.s. intelligence communi also allowed for the possibility of a rapid collapse of the taliban, but the worst-case scenario w they sketched out wa kabul could fall by september 11th. we are being told that nobody predicted this could happen -- some intelligence officials are insis...

The state department, secretary blinken, "the politico"s in the white house with want to paint this rosy picture that somehow these peace talks at doha were going to deliver a rabbit out of the hat at the 11th hour. guess what? that didnt happen. arthel: so the question everybodys asking is why was america caught so so off guard. but i want to ask you, john, how does this impact president bidens effectiveness on the geopolitical stage, particularly his foreign policy, and the president has a big...

Theyve been watching headlines like this for years. now theyre watching the taliban march over the country, and very shrewdly the taliban didnt kill all the soldiers if the soldiers gave up. but they did attack them brutally if the soldiers chose to keep fighting. i think thats why you saw so many soldiers give up so fast. also they were watching their senior commanders desperately calling kabul for air support and backup and not getting it. and lastly, the taliban, from their perspective, beat ...

Happens. >> all right. thank you so much for your time today. we appreciate it. >> i want to pick up on that threat. director, thank you for being with us. >> sure. >> theres the short term piece of this. the next six hours, 24 hours, theres the longer term piece of was this an intelligence failure. let me get you on both of these. let me get your reaction to what we have seen unfoal today and the pace at which this developed. how do you read this? >> i think what we have seen a nationwide flood...

Longer with a leader. this is a crisis of untold proportions. i would agree with richard. this is an intelligence failure. we underestimated the taliban and over estimated the resolve of the p afghan army. we spent $2 trillion in afghanistan over 20 years in terms of training and equipping the armed forces. providing them with the planes that they needed. giving the country all kinds of resources for reconstruction and we saw it happen over and over again where money was used for other purposes....

And it begs the question, what was the scale of intelligence failure in the united states, the u.s. military? how much were we diluting ourselves about the capacity of afghan forces about their capabilities if, without, really the kind of psychological protection of the americans, they just collapse because the united states had by and large quit the field several -- you know, a couple of years earlier. i think that is probably -- you know, this is something that we should be spending a lot of t...

Progress. >> you mentioned vietnam. more recently there was the rake example where iraqi soldiers dropped their weapons and frled and didnt have the will to fight in the face of isis. when you talk to troops on the ground, they say how this has played out, working with the afghan forces and how they think, this was inevitable that this happened and happened so quickly. you said this is the worst military collapse in history. how does the u.s. justify this outcome after 20 years filled with loss ...

>> well, this is a very dangerous and sad day. the events of the last few days have, i think, framed the severity, the danger, and the potential of things getting worse in a very, very clear way. i think what the president is doing and our defense forces are doing and the state department is doing, is doing everything they can to deal with the immediate problem, immediate concern, and thats get our people out, as many of our afghan friends and allies who worked with us, get them out. beyond that...

Personnel in kabul as the taliban is literally taking over. help us understand how that cannot be viewed as an intelligence failure? do you think its a failure of planning, logistics? what went wrong here? >> i would characterize it as a whole of government failure perhaps to see this. because, again, i dont think this is exclusively an intelligence failure. no. the big message, pamela, to me is something were relearn ing after my war in southeast asia. that is we cant buy will to fight. the iss...

Magazine, and evan coldman, terrorism analyst. thank you both. kevin, u.s. intelligence officials are pushing back on the charge there was an intelligence failure over afghanistans withdrawal, specifically a failure to anticipate the rapid collapse of the afghan government. what are your thoughts? >> well, im not surprised. i think we are seeing -- you know, everyone is pointing fingers. and we have seen this before. in iraq, in the isis storms in stirria. folks call it an intelligence failure b...