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0 latest on the situation. thank you. the fall of kabul appears to be imminent is the headline. >> we're sure courtney will be with us throughout the day, as well as our steam of correspondents to follow the latest. thanks for watching msnbc reports, "velshi" starts right now. i'm ali velshi, we're departing from our normal format for the news out of afghanistan where the taliban is closing in on kabul. the biggest city in the country. it does appear to be surrounded. this map is the latest we have, but it is not fully updated because this shows mazar-i-sharif under government control and it...

Wouldn't happen for 18 months after american troops left. he was hoping that that would give him enough space from his withdrawal that it would not look as causal an effect as it does look now. so it has been a big weekend of meetings. he's been -- president biden has been holding meetings at the white house with his national security team. i got a phone call this morning from a pentagon official who was on his way in. this has been a big deal because it is not only a mapter of evacuating americans, there's also sort of a coming to grips right now of the catastrophic failure of the $83 billion...

This time it's out of afghanistan where the taliban has reclaimed a startling swath of the region and is closing in on kabul. prompting an advanced team of marines to assist in the military evacuation of the u.s. embassy. meanwhile, the afghan president addressed the nation for the first time in days through a pre-recorded statement saying he's remobilizing the afghan national security forces instead of resigning as the taliban demanded. here to help me bring all of this into perspective is msnbc and my pal ali velshi. ali, i have to tell you, this is just devastating in afghanistan. the unite...

>> right. so the federal government historically in recent years have given $13 billion per year to transit. over the 12 months ending in march, the federal government didn't give just 13. because of all the supplemental bills we passed, the federal government added another 70 billion, not 17, 7-0, for a total of about $83 billion. that's more money than the operating budget and the capital budgets combined of every single transit agency in america. it's so much money, they couldn't possibly spend it. about half of it is sitting there, not spent. despite that, we offered our democratic colleag...

Government added another 70 billion, not 17, 7-0, for a total of about $83 billion. that's more money than the operating budget and the capital budgets combined of every single transit agency in america. it's so much money, they couldn't possibly spend it. about half of it is sitting there, not spent. despite that, we offered our democratic colleagues a 35% increase in the annual run rate of the federal subsidies to transit and tens of billions of additional dollars in this bipartisan agreement on top of all the money that they got. and they're saying that's not enough. that's where we are, ja...