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Days but a strategic failure. >> yeah, that was really interesting to hear him give that kind of assessment. orin, stay with us if you would. also joining the conversation now, we have cnn special correspondent jamie, cnn military analyst, retired air force colonel cedric leighton and chief international correspondent clarissa ward who is back in kabul, afghanistan, for the perspective from there. great to have all of you. colonel, i want to start with you because you just heard him lay out that it was not only general mckenzie who said he suggested leaving 2,500 troops. it was also general au...

Doing? >> well, he turns 97 on october 1st and his mind is clear, he's all there. he did suffer a couple of serious falls in recent -- in the last couple of years and so his mobility is much reduced, he is no longer, you know, traveling the world or having meetings or emailing. i emailed with him until quite recently, but nobody -- nobody else can, either, because his eyesight is affected, but he's still kicking and, you know, could be around for a while longer. >> we certainly hope so. we wish him and rose land carter well, they have had quite an extraordinary life together. what a blessing. ...

Scene of that hike. what is on that note? and with the answer to that. again, not to read too much into this, but "the new york post" reporting that in a video he is seen sitting and reading a book on august 19th called "annihilation," the text about four women who go to area x, three of whom go missing. again, can't take too much from that, but it's a really interesting tie-in. the body that was found last night, i was sitting at dinner with my mom and my little baby and she talked about the love a mom has for her child. and about sleep gabby's mom, her whole family but her mom in particular,...

Risk of being an accomplice to brian laundrie or aiding him in any way, and is that prosecutable? >> it is. i mean, if there's evidence at some point -- and god willing we find gabby petito alive and well, she's just lost in that national park, we don't know. but if there's evidence to demonstrate that she, in fact, lost her life and there somehow can be tied to brian laundrie, then anybodyinvolved in impeding the, obviously, the investigation by the authorities, impeding -- speaking to the authorities, any of that, they can be brought up on separate charges as well. arthel: i want to recap a ...

He left behind enemy lines. he said on august 19th, we will stay until every american has been evacuated. he lied. he abandoned americans behind enemy lines and now we have private afghanistan veterans risking their lives without the support of american military going back into that failed state trying to rescue americans and our allies. and by the way, we're worse off now than we were before 9/11 because we left because this administration, so it is incompetence left $85 billion in advanced military weapons splems in the hands of the enemy and now we once have an incubator of terrorism in tha...