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I understand that you were actually in kabul on 9/11. look at that. wow. you look just the same. i wonder what are your reflections on how much has changed and perhaps maybe even more importantly what has stayed the same? >> reporter: where are we today. there is a massive breakdown in trust. we talk about going forward between the taliban and the united states. we hear from the secretary of state and from others that they hear the taliban words but they want to see their actions. it is the same on the taliban side and this was our experience driving in here yesterday. there is a huge trust de...

Journal" said. our friends the taliban. the quote, the white house would prefer it all go away so it can think happy things as mr. biden put it not long ago when asked about afghanistan. he can't duck the reality that his failed afghan withdrawal has put the u.s. in this precarious position. hand you the floor. >> thank you. first of all i'm so sorry to hear about jasper. america will miss him. >> dana: he was a great one. >> i think what's happening right now is what corey mills is saying is correct, that the state department had almost nothing to do with this rescue bordering on stolen valor...

Obvious the taliban was taking over the country and the administration was going to stick to that august 31 deadline before they were able to get everybody out. that woman was 14 steps from the airport. she turn around and left for the taliban to take care of and negotiate with. that's a hostage crisis. you can't tell me the taliban is going to be disciplined here. we should pray this doesn't get much, much worse. i'm concerned about one of these guys who is a member of the taliban having a lack of discipline and getting angry. god forbid that happens. but the idea that hope is a strategy for ...

Which was picked solely by president biden and kamala harris as best we can tell, it really was to be done because we are -- you know, we are highlighting, noting the anniversary, 20th anniversary of 9/11 next saturday? was that the driving impetus to get out by august 31? >> i'm not going to pretend that i can read president biden's mind but we know for a fact that this was the date that they originally picked to say that was going to be the exit date was 9/11. they originally picked in my opinion because they wanted to do a specific optic to show to the world and ended up creating a situatio...

With them from they force them to marry to get out of afghanistan so the follow-up question is, how to they met these people? reportedly printing out recess and paperwork to get into the airport, that's a major concern so even the white house says there is vetting going on, you have a country where there is complete collapse of the government and no paper trail to vent anybody, i don't think you can trust a single part of the process that wasn't in the system before the past three weeks happened. >> no doubt about it. joey, the new york times have a repealing report on how this went down. mr. ...