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Consistent and outspoken then saying that we cant do anything else other than kill bad guys, kill taliban. we do nation building. what much of the national security establishment fails to recognize is there are limits to american military might. >> bill: i dont think there is much debate of that going on now in the country, you would admit that. let me get the question. the majority of americans believe time was up in afghanistan. thats not the question now. the question is how do you do it with...

Georgia to new york. and celebrating one of the worlds ultimate puzzle masters. good evening tonight, the last vestiges of american military might in afghanistan restored control for more what is the only way out. troops are firmly in charge of the military side of the kabul airport where flights have resumed today, fewer scenes of complete chaos, but no less amount of fear and desperation among those who once called americans colleagues and now are asking for recognition and help to start a...

The airport, theres utter desperation. afghans pushing and fleegd get in and board a flight away from taliban rule. they dont believe the taliban, which today promised to be different, that women will have rights, a free press, and a general amnesty for translators who helped the u.s. military. men like tom, which is what u.s. troops called him we have been following his story for months he went on combat missions and helped american troops find and kill taliban fighters hes been waiting for his...

Contact with the taliban saying they have pledged safe passage. the striking image, over 6 afghans pack into the a u.s. military plane president biden under pressure to speed up the evacuation, and new questions -- what did u.s. intelligence tell him, and when, about how fast afghanistan could fall our richard engle on the ground. also, u.s. health officials expected the make the case for covid booster shots eight months after the second dose for most americans. how soon they could go into arm...

Presidents end of the month deadline >> we believe that this can go till the 31st. >> reporter: notably, senior white house officials did not commit to evacuations after that date. today also conceding state of the art american military equipment, including blackhawk helicopters have been lost. >> certainly an amount of it has fallen into the hands of the taliban, and we dont have the sense theyre going to hand it over to the airport. >> reporter: in recent weeks the cia began to warn in increas...

Allies behind. >> yesterday youre at the kabul airport. whats it like now >> reporter: it is much more secure those people have been cleared out. planes are able to take off and land. there are jets in the sky. many more troops here. the biggest danger is the platform with afghans still trying to push their way into the airport. lester >> richard, thanks to you and your team. pressure mounting on the biden administration to get americans and allies out safely and growing criticism of its overa...

Longer sending young healthy bodies to be chewed up in the machine of war however, i am really sad for the folks who are in afghanistan and the way theyre being treated. i saw a picture of a taliban guy wearing the helmet i wore in afghanistan and when i wore it it was a very special, very unique helmet, so its like, wow, how did that happen im wrestling with a lot of emotions. on the other hand of the coin, i also kind of see it as, like, well, the government of afghanistan fled the country and...

Totally different cultures are really not good. so weve got to strengthen the home base, make prudent actions abroad, and terminate them as soon as possible. look, this was not a war that was fought. it wasnt being fought. we had firepower to kill taliban. but our friends, our allies gave up. they didnt have a rationale. their only rationale was america there, and they were fighting. but when push comes to shove, they are more aligned with the taliban, or at least theyre not ready to die for the...

And is it worth all the money that they get from us every year? >> well, i would characterize it as theyve done the easy things. they picked up some of the early al qaeda people. kaild sheikh mohammed, for example. theyve gone after -- >> but dan, are these things that they exclusively could do, or we could actually do that, too? >> well, in some of these cases like going after some of the networks, going after people in the midst of the major cities, unless we were going to be essentially runni...