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>> reporter: former afghanistan base chief says another recent development that hes really concerned about is the talibans release of inmates from prisons all around afghanistan. many of them are already hardened terrorists, some of americas worst enemies, he says, who have only gotten more radical in prison. >> brian todd reporting. lets dig deeper with phil mudd. thanks for joining us. the withdrawal of u.s. troops mean the u.s. will have less intelligence on potential terrorist activity in th...

Phil mudd, youve been on it, youve been right and you have the right take. im testing you, thats my job. but i trust you. >> dont test me, chris. see you later. now, were talking about the taliban. why do i push phil on the idea of negotiating with them, trusting them, hoping they keep their word? because they dont. in fact, there are too many of who believe weve got to let this country do what its going to do on its own. a lot of these people, the taliban, are not from afghanistan. the organi...

Incredible success. i dont remember if it took four days, eight days, ten days. let me give you one simple parallel. im not talking about in seriousness. i am talking about an american mindset. the affordable care act. the only conversation when that started was the website sucked and nobody could get insurance. today, the only conversation is, is universal insurance or is the affordable care act good for america? people have forgotten the disaster of the introduction to the affordable care act....

Calm all week has been a former-cia counterterrorism official, who played a big role in forming the now-fallen afghan government. mr. phil mudd. good to see you, brother. you used an analogy earlier in the week. dont say the race is over. its not fair. the first couple laps have gone lousy. now, were a bunch of laps into the race. how are we looking? >> chapter two. look. chapter one, the government was caught off guard. the -- the throughput at the airport was slow. the numbers of people not on...

CNN has continued offering critical coverage of President Biden amid his administration's turbulent military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Airport for whatever reason. what we do know is that 6,000 people are now at the airport. 6,000 people have been able to make it, have made it through the processing and as of a couple of hours ago we received only a small handful of reports otherwise from american citizens. >> reporter: so just to follow up on that, and you say you are doing everything you can, but also yesterday defense secretary austin --. >> you have been listening to ned price there, the spokesperson for the state departmen...

Walsh. as you can see were awaiting the briefing. we will bring it to you as soon as possible. we have cnn counterterror analyst phil mudd who helped build the afghan government that just fell. phil, obviously it has been a sobering few days for you to watch. what do you want to hear the state department explain today? >> i want to hear the explanation, not today but in the future, of not why kabul fell so quickly. i think when you look at -- when the taliban first rose in 1995 we were surprise ...

And the best reason that we may not wind up plucking people, america may not wind up rescuing people from the roof of its embassy is because they closed it so soon. but desperate efforts are not far off here. and know this -- while those words may haunt this president, we may all be haunted by what happens in afghanistan and is revisited here. the people that you break your promise to, if they are left trapped in that kind of desperation, they may come back to haunt you as some of the most arden...

Happen. i think people should have been out earlier. >> phil, to the point, you are just joining the conversation, i will stick with you for a moment. was there a possibility of an extension of this stay of u.s. forces there? the president says that his hands essentially were tied by the agreement made by the previous president. could there have been more time for u.s. troops to stretch this out a bit? >> sure. i mean i would have disagreed as an analyst with that decision, but the president can...