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Say this is really rich. you know, secretary pompeo criticizinged biden administration, when, frankly speaking, dealing with afghanistan always was going to be difficult for president biden once he assumed office, but the trump administration made it even more difficult by unilaterally negotiating with the taliban and excluding of afghan government, which of course already had its problems in terms of credibility with the afghan population, but in afternoon, might makes right, and the united states brings a lot of might to the table, so excludes the afghan government, weakened the negotiating ...

Massively bunkled in terms of how we got out of afghanistan. there was and there is wide agreement in the united states that we should leave afghanistan militarily, but we never were intending to leave diplomatically, we certainly did not intend to leave the way we are now, hastily, having to burn documents, fighting for the lives of americans and the afghans who helped them, not to mention all the internationals and other afghans that helped basically civil society, media outlets like yours. we're in a situation we didn't need to be in. the biden administration had already decided, may 1st, t...

Bash the biden administration for pulling out of afghanistan, and the fashion with which they did it, in some cases likening this moment to leaving saigon during the vietnam war. alsoed biden administration plays defense, some obama officials even second-guessing the way this has gone down. oregon congress members acknowledging the realities on the ground, even as she backs up the biden administration to pull out and end america's longest war. listen. >> this is a crisis of untold proportions. i would agree with richard, this is an intelligence failure. we underestimated the taliban, and overe...

General mccaffery. just this morning, take a lynn to this first. president biden said in the not be a saigon, but when i team to ambassador crocker, we think it will be worse. sage saigon all over again? it's not clear to me -- they do

Hamid karzai airplane has a distinct military and civil ian side, but again, this is an evolving situation. >> i think it's important to underscore the point that the military side is operational, but shannon, the last we heard is there was no plans for president biden to make everything is up to change. the president is at camp david. he was briefed. he is not there with the security team. this was a briefing over telle conference. typically this time of year, presidents are on vacation, and we were anticipating that president biden would be away on vacation.