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Ghani, you have done some great reporting on exactly what went on behind the scenes as he fled the country. take us through this story. >> reporter: it was a shock really because the whole american plan rested on ashraf ghani not running. and thats what he did. now, i spoke to a former-senior official -- um -- and i got a pretty detailed account of the final days thinking. and it does essentially appear that the kind of final warning, the final demand for surrender to the ghani administration ca...

Adviser for the surrender of president ghanis government, that man is actually an affiliate of al qaeda. the president has said there is nobody from al qaeda in afghanistan. we know that thats not true. do you have any concerns that afghanistan could be a breeding ground again for terrorists, not just al qaeda but a cohesive organization between al qaeda, ice i and the taliban? we have to take that threat seriously. we have to act upon the intelligence that we have. we have to be aggressive in d...

Keep peace. the concern was war inside a city of 6 million people. we knew if ghani left, the guns would be silent. talks were meant for monday but on sunday the taliban hit kabuls outskirts. they got the final demand to surrender from a man the u.s. wanted as a terrorist, ha halil hakani. hes a long-term taliban negotiator wanted a peaceful transfer of power and the government should issue a statement of surrender, but ghani fled and they said there was no single scapegoat here because the proc...

That the government should issue a statement of surrender. but ghani fled and the official insists there was no single scapegoat here, because the process was never fully controlled by afghans in the first place. now, with plenty of recriminations here. certainly, theres no doubt that the afghan forces did crumble. theres no doubt that the sources were not particularly effective. and reimains what they could do. and that america was leaving obviously would undermine their morale. what is still e...

The administration to do this. >> do you feel that the administration and the president, specifically, has been handling this well in the last week? >> lets remember this was going to be this kind of chaos five years ago or five years from now. i believe a better plan could have been in place but the fact that it was premised on the notion that the afghan army would fight, had the ability or the willingness to do this, i think that was the key misjudgment. as a result youre going to have chaos t...

Flee afghanistan was the now-former president ashraf ghani. were learning details about the days leading up to the end of his government and why he was forced to flee with just the clothes on his back. cnns nick payton walsh joins us from qatar. what have you learned about the final hours before kabul fell? >> reporter: jim, it was an extraordinary moment, frankly, because it was the departure suddenly of ghani that left a vacuum into which the taliban stepped. now, the thing that stuck in my mi...

>> we signed a surrender agreement to the taliban. >> youre talking about mike pompeo? >> yes. this collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. the taliban didnt defeat us. we defeated ourselves. >> joining me now, political strategist and biden campaign consultant and a lease jordan, msnbc political analyst. she also worked at headquarters for the nato led mission in kabul. as i welcome you both, elise, you spent time in kabul. was this deal a surrender? do you see an alternative ...

अमेरिकी संसद भवन के पास एक पिकअप ट्रक में बम होने का दावा करने वाले एक व्यक्ति ने बृहस्पतिवार को एक घंटे के गतिरोध के बाद पुलिस के सामने आत्मसमर्पण कर दिया। पुलिस को तुरंत यह नहीं पता चल सका कि ...

>> absolutely. and it already started sliding in may and june because of the economy, the people thought it was going to get worse then get better for the first time all year we found that in our polling but i tell you what, we are finding focus groups now im a people do not think this is a withdrawal from afghanistan. they think this is a surrender. so this is -- the media is still being kind to biden. they are calling it a surrender because he is still getting good coverage from a lot of the c...

Giving is doing a phenomenal job. what you have a degree of comfort by the generals in washington along with the senior civilian issues like secretary austin and the president of the united states who are risk averse. the fact that were pinned down and negotiating surrender with the airport perimeter when other countries have said we cant rely on the united states to safely evacuate our citizens out, were going to go outside and into kabul itself indicates that we in fact are not doing everythin...