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Fall-out from president biden s denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. cnn now learning that u.s. diplomats wrote an internal memo last night warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. this hour i will get reaction from the president, the deputy national security adviser. he s standing by live. our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. we begin with cnn national security respondent over at the state department for us. this is major. what are you learning about this memo? reporter: wolf, what we re learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified dissent memo to the saek tear of state tony blinken in july. they were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive evacuation effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different ....
You heart kailey s report on this group of diplomat sending a dissent memo to cemetery of state blinken warning of spending collapse, urging that steps be taken to help the afghan allies in the country be able to escape more quickly. cnn reports that this warning was labeled as, quote, alarmist. what do you make of this? boy, when you are dealing in the threat business, which i did for years, you get alarmists for every day. everybody is whispering in your ear, here is where they re coming at you tomorrow. you have to determine what to filter and whatnot to filter. this reminds me of january 6th. the question is not whether the memo was perfectly accurate, whether it was perfectly predictive. the question is when you see a major event looming on the horizon in a week or two weeks a month, and clearly we saw the withdrawal of afghanistan from ....
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Predicted, predicted the potential fall of the government in the aftermath of a troop draw down. that happened more quickly than the cable which was concerned. the second thing they asked for was evacuation flights of special immigrant visa applicants. they asked for these to begin by august 1st. we began those flights in july. look, what we have said all along is when we are assessing the situation in afghanistan, we take a number of inputs. we get diplomatic reporting. we watch the reports of our news organizations like cnn and make the best assessment we can. i think the cable reflects what we said all along, which is that nobody had this right in predicting the government and army of afghanistan would fall in days. there was no consensus as far as intelligence. ....
That s when the federal transportation mask mandate now ends. american also announced it s stepping up work inside its largest hubs, charlotte and dallas, to try and keep passengers from bringing their own booze on board its flights. jake? pete muntean, thanks so much. we have some breaking news for you now. cnn has just learned about a warning sent to secretary of state blinken a full month before the collapse of kabul. we ll bring you those details next. as your business changes, the united states postal service is changing with it. with e-commerce that runs at the speed of now. next day and two-day shipping nationwide, and returns right from the doorstep. it s a whole new world out there. let s not keep it waiting. ....