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It didnt work. you cant strike a deal with the taliban. what i really despise most, sean, in the speech this afternoon, blaming everybody but himself including former president trump. i can tell you this. trump would never have sat back and watched an unconditional surrender of the taliban to afghanistan. hes the one who crushed isis when the obama-biden administration created this and i talked to national security advisor obrien. he told me in his conversations the president said, he would neve...

It is 5:30 in the morning tuesday morning right now. nbcs chief foreign correspondent richard engel as you probably know has spent big portions of the last two decades of his life in afghanistan during the war there. richard also weeks ago reported on some of the last fierce fighting by elite afghan commando units fighting against taliban forces. we now know that was some of the last fighting there was in afghanistan like that and richard was right in the middle of it. but now that the taliban h...

But himself including donald trump. trump would never have sat back and watched an unconditional surrender of the taliban to afghanistan. >> reporter: lawmakers on twitter say the us needs to do more including cori bush who says following vietnam, 120,000 refugees in a single year yet the us is only taken 2000 refugees the far. we have a duty to save lives. the president says the us is working to help refugees get out of afghanistan with a handful of military bases housing is refugees but dont k...

And richard was right there in the middle of it. but now that the taliban have been able to take control of all of the provincial capitals, and then the whole country, including kabul, without fighting at all, not in a military operation. but what appears to be a negotiated surrender by afghan government forces and the afghan military. all over the country. as the taliban have now walked into kabul, without firing a shot. richard has been there recording around the clock, as they have taken over...

Going to do that now. >> i tell you, the families, the outrage. they feel that this is a surrender. if anybody would have said 20 years ago we would held off an attack and on the 20th anniversary, were going to pull out and allow the taliban to win, to be back stronger now than then, its indefensible. many 9-11 families that have spoken to are totally outraged by this. >> martha: 20 years later and the taliban won and is back in charge in afghanistan. no doubt will create safe haven for other te...

Observation that the premise at the heart of why we were there for so long has been disproven, right? the reason u.s. forces did not leave in 2001 when the taliban first offered to surrender, the reason u.s. forces did not leave in any of the 20 freaking years since then is because our presence was supposedly doing some good, right? building up -- specifically building up some kind of government and some kind of military, some kind of security force internally that could stand on its own and sus...

Taking the criticism and saying he is willing to take the criticism but he is sticking to the fundamental argument which frankly is just a fundamental observation that the premise at the heart of why we were there for so long has been disproven. right? the reason u.s. forces did not leave in 2001 when the taliban first offered to surrender, the reason u.s. forces did not leave in any of the 20 freaking years since then is because our presence was supposedly doing some good, right? building up sp...

Welcome back, everyone. our top story, the race to leave afghanistan as the taliban take over. the militants wrapped up a blistering advance against major cities over the weekend ending in the surrender of the kabul. ousted president ashraf ghani has fled the country and video from al jazeera shows heavily armed taliban fighters in the presidential palace. the u.s. state department says all embassy personnel have been evacuated. they were flown out by helicopter to the airport, which is being se...

Morning talking about the afghan surrender on the part of joe biden. he tried to duck responsibility in the calamitous withdrawal. note that he is more critical of his predecessor then he has of the taliban. the president has spent seven months ostentatiously overturning one trumpet policy after another. claiming this is not one that he could not do anything about it. that is a point well taken. >> lets dive a little bit deeper. biden mentioned, did anybody mention that the north vietnamese woul...

Intelligence support, and were unable and they were spread out so theme they were unable to operate and they did not have supplies and he did not have food and some of them have been unpaid for months in somewhat sold kayla reported the taliban gave them stipends as they surrendered. so in the face of this all, it was a surrender that ended up all, it was a surrender that ended up happening rather than a fight back. and this was not anticipated by many, especially in washington. we say it was no...