Occupied Kabul News Today

Joining us this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you. that wraps up this busy hour. hallie jackson picks up breaking news coverage on the other side of the break from inside kabul, as afghanistan falls to the taliban. do not go anywhere. breaking news right here. ive never slept like this before. we gave new zzzquil pure zzzs restorative herbal sleep to people who were tired of being tired. what is even in this? clinically-studied plant based ingredients passion flower, valerian root, and ho...

If he hadnt, we would have had to add troops. did he have a better option? >> better i dont know, but thats what the other option was. we have seen reporting of the white house and administration officials that thought that look, this was going to happen anyway, the taliban were going to either fight or walk their way into kabul, and the amount of troops trump left in kabul wasnt enough to do anything. it would take another 10,000. we reported two years ago, talked to senior commanders, asked th...

With education for women and girls. so when the taliban came back, people panltd over the butd ee shop. they know what the taliban want and expect. we watched a man tear up the beauty parlor sign in line with the talibans wishes. the taliban dont just control kabul but the whole country and all the weapons the u.s. bought for the afghan army. there are reports of atrocities, including abductions, rape, executions. militants are much stronger now than 20 years ago when the u.s. drove them from po...

Kabul, despite a 20 year opportunity to plant seeds of civil society, rule of law, democratic governance, lined their own pockets, devolved into corruption and there are front line troops with whom i served, i know are strong fighters that love their home land were completely let down by leadership. couldnt get bullets or rags. >> i want to bring in richard engle live from kabul. what is happening on the ground where you are? >> reporter: so we are near the airport right now and that is where we...

The chaos. for the u.s., job number one is getting americans out safely. 3,000 u.s. troops arrived in kabul. they have helped evacuate staff from u.s. embassy sunday. now theyre trying to get them out of the country all together. that is not an easy task. this morning, national security adviser jake sullivan told nbc the u.s. military is still in the process of fully securing the airport. those are afghans under an air force plane, trying to climb on landing gear as it is trying to take off. if ...

Watch this. >> the taliban is not the north sri et nam east army, not remotely comparable. no circumstance you see people lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comfortable. >> when you were face to face with the taliban, how did the administration underestimate them so dramatically? >> i think the largest miscalculation in the last 20 years is not about the taliban, it has been about afghan central leadership. theres been this continued bias sa...

Focused on getting u.s. citizens out, along with interpreters. although tens of thousands of translators have no u.s. visas, so they, too, are left to the taliban. the militants took control of kabul yesterday. we watched them move in. >> kabul is falling. we left our office, long time home in afghanistan, heading to a safer location, hopefully safer location. we have seen gunmen look like taliban on the streets and all government check points, police and soldiers are gone. now the taliban are o...

In the coming days. i dont know if they can wait that long. that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up coverage right now. hi there, i am stephanie ruhle. monday, august 16th. we start with breaking news out of afghanistan for the so-called forever war coming to a messy, chaotic, heartbreaking end. sunday, the taliban seized the capital of kabul, effectively taking control of the country, making headlines around the world. after nearly 20 years of trying to hold afghanistan tog...

The fleeing afghan president in the face of them coming to the gates of kabul is exemplar of the leadership we had in the last 20 years. the right images here are not 50 years ago in saigon, it is what would be 50 years from now. without president biden making this hard call, america would be there, losing american troops, and for what. without a viable partner in afghanistan, we would not be winning a counter insurgency. >> this disaster situation would be no matter when we pulled out. thank yo...