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Confidence. afghan-political leaders, who fled the country. the afghan military. >> i know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating afghans civilians sooner. part of the answer is some of the aftghans did not want to leave earlier. still, hopeful for their country. and part of it because the afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a crisis of confidence. >> okay. so, let's say all that is true. even if -- if all of that is true, the big question is, now what? now what? what happens, now? the president ...

Are gone. they are trying to restore order. 6,000 u.s. troops earmarked, flooding into the airport, taking control of the perimeter of the airport and trying to clear people away and and maintain that security. they do have several days to go yet to get all the americans out, to get any aftghans they cn out. and it should be said, they're trying to assist other allied countries in get ting their people out. it's a very complex operation right now. being monitored around the clock. and, obviously, concern how long will the taliban hold their patience, if you will, how long will they let this go...

A new relationship. >> that being said, the security concerns include yes, the taliban launching 100 plus attacks every day against afghan forces. the aftghans who helped the united states as interpreters and other ways are being targeted for murder. the u.s. intelligence assessment is at the afghan government could fall to the taliban in six to 12 months. on top of that, we're hearing they're making contingency plans for evacuating u.s. personnel. these are real concerns that don't just relate to afghans but also the united states personnel who are going to be left there. >> it shows how reso...

Democracies in our image, not changing the aftghans 'way of life. joining us, is jim sciutto and general hurtling. what jumps out to you as someone who spent a lot of time in the military? what did you make of what you heard? >> there were parts of it i wholeheartedly agree with, anderson. the primary factor when he said we were shifting from time based to conditions based. that's something that i think most of my colleagues, most military professionals would say we should have done in the past. it was one thing that stuck in many of our craws about saying we would reduce the number of forces ...

It doesn't allow killing in any way, even if it is westerners. we had our own producer attend one of these friday prayers. another local producer went to another mosque where he had friday parayers and what the imm said was the afghans had no right to protest and kill because many aftghans and muslis haven't fully accepted the koran because if they had, they would know this is wrong. >> please stay safe. we really appreciate it. newt gingrich hitting the campaign. i'm sorry, hitting the president on foreign policy and he doesn't stop there. can he make a comeback or are his presidential aspi...