decorated combat veteran of vietnam, former cabinet member and member of the national security council. and dr. badelia, founding director of boston university's center for emerging infectious diseases policy and research. good evening and welcome to you all. general, we are going to begin with you with this urgent matter overseas. since you and i spoke at exactly this hour last night, the taliban has made incredible progress over land. i'm tempted to say if patton's third army had moved this fast after "d"-day, ve-day would have come in two weeks in europe. question to you, what happens when they take kabul and what, got forbid happens, if any americans are harmed? >> it could be a cascading tragic for the afghan people. most of the country 40 million