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At the airport, including horrific pictures of people trying to cling to the outside of departing planes. an afghan footballer who played for the national youth team fell to his death after trying to cling to a us plane airlifting people out of taliban—controlled kabul, a sports federation says. a government institution that worked with sporting groups, confirmed the death of zaki anwari in the mayhem that erupted at the airport in the capital this week. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, ha...

Im kim brunhuber. this is "cnn newsroom." president biden is tripling down on his decision to withdraw american forces from afghanistan by months end despite the mayhem that has ensued after the taliban took over the country. during a tense interview with abc news, job said he doesnt believe the pullout has failed so far and when asked if it could have been handled better, he said no. biden then suggested the chaos in kabul was inevitable, but that goes against what he said last month. listen ...

Beheaded. and more scenes of carnage. women and children, beaten, shopped and stabbed it where we cant guarantee a safe passage but we urge you to go to. one taliban fighter was sure to whipping people trying to get to the airport and this man was actually kicked in the face and abducted on the back of a pickup truck. one cnn producer was attacked and almost pistol whipped. watch this. >> of the most frightening moment for our team came when our producer brent swales was taking some videos on hi...

Dismembered, some shot and some beheaded. and more scenes of carnage. women and children, beaten, shot and stabbed, where we cant guarantee a safe passage but we urge you to go to. one taliban fighter was sure to whipping people trying to get to the airport and this man was actually kicked in the face and abducted on the back of a pickup truck. one cnn producer was attacked and almost pistol whipped. watch this. >> the most frightening moment for our team came when our producer brent swales was ...

Taliban. cnns account of the mayhem surrounding the massive evacuation effort. plus what u.s. intelligence agencies apparently told the white house about the potential for a taliban takeover. so why did the administration seem so surprised?

Their credibility is on the line. >> you have been inside four white houses. do you see this as a legacy defining moment for biden? >> a lot depends on what happens in the next few days. if it continues, if theres more mayhem, if theres complete chaos and americans are killed, yes, it will be a defining legacy. if he can get order in the streets and get people out of there quickly, people will pay more attention to the economy and the pandemic and so forth. i think the danger now is that its not...

Not the case in the area around the airport there. we have to see how the biden administration perhaps changes what theyre doing based on what is happening on the ground there. >> jeremy, we had congressman seth moulton on, democratic, last hour who once again explained how hes been asking for answers from the white house, not just for days or weeks, but for months on this. and yet we still see the absolute mayhem on the ground at the airport that clarissa just described in such stark detail. ho...

Lets go "outfront". good evening. im kate bolduan in for erin burnett. president biden defiant and unapologetic about his decision and execution of the plan to withdrawal u.s. troops from afghanistan speaking to abc news, biden saying the mayhem playing out in afghanistan is not a failure and there was no way to withdrawal without chaos ensuing. >> back in july, you said a taliban takeover was highly unlikely. was the intelligence wrong or did you down play it? >> i think there was no cons con...

It doesnt matter if the airport is open if you cant get in the door. and so far, i have not heard a solution about how theyre supposed to get there other than, well, we think the taliban is going to let it happen. >> reporter: i mean, you know, what was interesting when we were pushing up very close to the entrance of the airport, and this taliban fighter came out and he was just high onion what. he was really, really hopped up and quite scary, i must say. he was like, what are you doing here? a...

Our foreign policy. the way to do it is not through endless military deployments. >> president biden is away from cameras at the presidential retreat camp david. bill. >> peter doocy from the white house. dana. >> dana: a reign of terror underway in afghanistan. the taliban going door-to-door looking for allies who helped american troops. the only way out is through the one airport. a source says the taliban has surrounded it and not letting anyone get through. an airlift takes on new urgency. j...