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I appreciate your reporting and being here with us i want to bring in mall some -- malcolm entz you heard congresswoman speier saying, and we have heard this echoed for years is that this was nothing less than an intelligence failure of an enormous attitude. is that your assessment as well? >> no, this isnt an intelligence failure of enormous magnitude because one of the things we learned very early -- full disclosure, i went into afghanistan in january of 2005 to do an intelligence assessment o...

0 jaw-dropping developments. >> thank you, dan. appreciate it. we are nearing the top of the hour right here on msnbc as we continue to watch these live pictures coming from the city of kabul. a city that is right now encircled by the taliban. by some reports, the taliban have been spotted within the streets of the city. there are reports that negotiations are taking place within the presidential palace there in the capital city. its not clear if ashraf ghani who is taking part of those negotiat...

Knowing what weve seen and what has not been standing up by the afghan national security forces? >> yeah, i think it goes back to the way the president, the current president, president biden, is withdrawing. you know, we didnt even tell the afghans we were leaving bagram air force base. they just walked in and said, oh, wait, the americans are gone. and that kind of disrespect clearly makes them think, oh, the americans dont have our back. and when you communicate that to them in this kind of f...

Daughter. thinking of them today, did the u.s. accomplish the post 9/11 mission? >> for the last 11 years, weve kept them safe, so i absolutely think we did accomplish the mission. the presidents withdrawal in september 202021 comes almost 2 years to the day we lost americans in the plane attacks. the results were not predictable. its not intelligence failure. everyone saw this coming. everyone predicted it. unfortunately were seeing the results of it, and the likely result is the return of al q...

How it fights, its tactics, its strategy. so this didnt surprise me. the only thing thats surprising has been the last seven days, and thats the speed of -- im sorry -- the last eight days. thats the speed of the taliban taking over the provinces theyve taken over. this makes what the islamic state did in iraq in 2013 and 2014 look like childs play. >> you mentioned youve been following their movements for ten years, which brings me to this. the speed and breadth of the advance, breathtaking. bu...

Its fallen i think only confirms president bidens decision to say that our time there has come to an end. what i would disagree with is ever setting a time certain. i think that that has worked to the disadvantage of the united states and to the greater advantage of the taliban. so i think now were faced with a situation in which i believe there had to be an intelligence failure somewhere along the way that were now coping and trying to reinforce our forces there to save our personnel in the cap...

Their weapons and going home. so i think one of the lessons for us here is there is a difference between arming and equipping and training and giving resources to an army and actually that army and that forces will to fight. and their leadership or lack of leadership and in the issues of governance and corruption. and also the issue of their identity. it is a largely tribal country and always has been so when you look at where the loyalties of rank file of the afghan army where they reside, it i...

The show. the characterization i would have for it is heart breaking. this is turning into a horror story. it is friday the 13th. its a horror story for the afghan people and the biden administration. there are 2 failures they think are really important to highlight. how you do a withdrawal critical. we left bagram without even telling the afghan military. we just disappeared. they felt abandoned. that resulted in them -- they cant trust that america will be there for them. obviously they are no...

Failure, six and 12 months turns into two or three weeks. if some thing was terribly wrong. what i am seeing tonight our reports of humvees, drones, throughout the country that were not destroyed before troops that left the city. secretary of defense should have known or anticipated that it was possible that these things were left behind by the afghan military. that material should have been destroyed and its still there, and hands of the taliban. the secretary of defense is responsible for that...

The taliban taking over this territory. i want to go back to july 8th. the president said this. >> the question now is where do they go from here. the jury is still out want the likelihood there will be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the country is unlikely. >> trace: the administration doesnt act surprised. how do you respond to that? what do you think the response should be? >> the president is basically saying what he believed to be the case a month ago. thats why i mentioned t...