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>> reporter: yeah, thats absolutely right. we were quite surprised that was happening. i want to show our viewers where exactly we are. ill step out of your way for a second here. a little more quiet, this is the last checkpoint before we go into the area where essentially that invasion is taking place. so if we go further down into that direction, thats where we see a lot of the tanks go into -- or towards ukrainian territory, but really the only place they can go is into ukraine around the are...

Western portion of ukraine? so well see. but, you know, i think he has learned quite a bit. there were a lot of mistakes, military mistakes when they invaded georgia, and i think they learned a lot from that and were seeing a much more professional or coordinated attack on ukraine. >> every step you take toward kyiv, it makes you wonder if hes looking for some kind of political decapitation, speaking metaphorically of course there. mark hirtling joins us now. general, i have up here the scope of...

Fight for the country. do they turn it elsewhere? and how does that affect the future of afghanistan? all of that is key as the u.s. continues to watch what happens there. of course, overall of this is just the fact at this point that the u.s. ability to monitor whats happening in the ground in the country to gather intelligence, all of that severely diminished when that last c-17 took off. >> i want you to standby as well. once again, were awaiting the secretary of state blinken. you see the li...