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Skill, combat experience. almost unparalleled among the u.s. military. and that second force was sent in on one of these. a huge u.s. army chinook helicopter. there were 38 u.s. personnel -- excuse me, there were 38 personnel onboard that chinook that went in as that bolsteringr force that night. it was ten years ago this month, it was august 6th, 2011, and that night somehow it may have just been a lucky shot with a om low-tech rocket-propelled a grenade. but somehow, that gigantic chinook helicopter with all l those men onboard was shot down. and the toll was absolutely devastating. everybod...

That they would look into the abyss, the administration and say, whoa, this could be really ugly. let's not do that perhaps after all. and then it was the withdrawal of the contractors who kept the afghan air force going. you know well, your husband is a special forces officer who served with afghan commandos. they will go to the fight. they just have to get there. and as the afghan helicopters and fixed wing aircraft readiness eroded, they no longer could provide the kind of reinforcements, regency supply, at posts around the country. yes, they're more numerous, but the taliban could mass whe...

Into kuwait. we have european and u.s. contractors to get out of the city. it will be a dangerous time. four miles from the embassy compound which i have been in a bunch out at the kabul airport. a dangerous situation. >> going to be some of the most important real estate in coming weeks to keep an eye on. general, a lot of americans are wondering why the afghan government or troops are not fighting. i had a chance to pose that question to former afghan ambassador to the u.s. she said they want to fight but have been surrounded, cut off, are unable to get supplies to front lines in some of the...

Defenses around kabul itself, the government can pull back, depend on these afghan commandos who know how to fight and have been fighting, but that's going to be a losing game in the long term. you can't sustain that, so i think unfortunately the outlook is quite bleak at this point. >> and ann, you've been a part of this washington post team breaking a lot of news on this ground in the last couple of days and months. let's talk about kabul and the state department and white house are saying, we're negotiating and they have all of the regional players and china involved today in doha with nego...

The government. and the taliban's attempts to discredit cnn reporting of the institution of more than two dozen afghan commandos who had surrendered has been rejected. the u.s. state department has weighed in describing the horrific actions as an atrocious act and cnn confirmed with five eyewitnesses that the master took place. and the biden administration has launched operation frsallies ree to relocate thousands of a begans who helped the u.s. military. not known where they will go, but the white house has corn firmed that the flights will begin by the end of the month.cl begin by the end of...