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It was and the first choice. it was a last choice. but it was an arrangement they had to use. they have gotten 117,000 afghans evacuated the last two weeks. and they had to go through cal ban checkpoints to get to the airport. if you ask me if everybody should be worried about what comes after august 31. yes. anybody living under taliban rule as soon as american troops leave, the taliban will go house to house and they are going to seek retribution for anyone who cooperated with americans, and there is a great deal of terror in afghanistan tonight as we speak. it will continue, and the taliban...

Kabul tomorrow 3:29 p.m. that's it. we're gone. a lot of questions that the pentagon has to answer today. we'll bring it to you live as soon as it happens. >> bill: the long weekend for everybody there and continues today. stand by on that. biden administration saying the rapid fall of kabul came as a surprise, the u.s. had to depend on the taliban for security. however, a "washington post" report on the taliban offering to allow the u.s. to take over security at kabul raising some questions on that. here is the headline. surprise, panic and fateful choices the day america lost its longest war...

Are serious, that discussion, that debate now needs to be mainstreamed. i expect the republicans in the house and senate to start talking about it immediately. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we're on a pace to finish by august 31. >> this is on track on be largest airlift. in u.s. history, no, i would not say that is anything but a success. >> i want to know how many of us are killed, their families are notified. >> retired special forces office and intelligence officials are taking matters in their own hand because of such a lack of leadership and clarity. >> developed a networks of folk that work to...

A government. if you were looking out on the horizon we are already seeing groups in the pashear valley. it most likely will become aville war. ashley: what happens -- say the president does extend this 31st of august deadline. i know it's not likely. but say he does. could we see a retaliatory instance from the taliban because that was not part of the arrangement? >> i think that's why you won't see the president extend that deadline beyond august 31. there is slim to none chance that changes.

Enemies all over the region, if you want to attack us, hammer us hard before august 31. why did we create the alamo, kabul airport. we're huddle down, we have tremendously heroic troops, not our troops, i'm talking about their bosses. and so now they are targets. we tell our people, get to the airport as fast as you come then don't get to the airport, the terrorists are unpredictable. no they are quite predictable. they are going to attack us. now, isis and the taliban don't get along? they don't get along? i remember a week ago the taliban took over the country, they took over the bagram airb...