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Board the c-17, the final c-17 leaving kabul. david, that seems to me the final, that image of the american presence in afghanistan. that will be juxtaposed with the final image of the american presence in vietnam, which of course was a helicopter taking off. and so, with that, on this final day, what can be said about 1 am erica accomplished, or whatever color and? >> i hope we learned a lot. clearly, there were some benefits that were brought to the afghan people in terms of increased lay chrissy access to the internet exposure to ideas like democracy and so forth. when you went to afghanist...

With all what is going on, no one heard us, that we are in danger and we need to be safe. just heartbreaking. i just don't even know what to say to you. >> taliban have warned that an american presence after today is a red line. but secretary of state antony blinken says that the u.s. and its allies are working to reopen the kabul airport as quickly as possible to help americans and afghans who still want to leave. d cnn's oren liebermann reports. >> reporter: and one minute before midnight, one minute before august 31, the u.s. military presence came to an end marking the end of nearly 20 yea...

And various times we did too little. so i think it's important we learn and learn the right things from this. >> there's been a lot of armchair analysis but it's easy to forget what some people felt likes on september 11, 2001 and why we went into afghanistan, to find the people who perpetrated that horror on our country. what's up for debate is the years that followed, the decisions that came after that. what are your feelings and thoughts this morning as the final american troop walked onto a c-17 and left afghanistan? >> president biden should be commended for making a hard decision. i disa...

Singular american commander getting on to a c-17 and leaving afghanistan, leaving behind him a project, a presence, a war which took so many afghan and american lives, got so many families torn apart over the endless tours, a small fraction of america who was asked to serve in that war had to endure. and now in this remarkable final month of evacuation chaos, logist logistical extraordinary feat, questions now of what was it all for. >> and the u.s. and allies discussing ways to reopen the airport to facilitate safe travel out for americans and afghan allies. we'll have to see how that goes. b...

Nation not at war there. after two decades the u.s. military no longer on the ground in afghanistan. this image capture the the moment the last u.s. service member left afghan soil that is the commander of the 82nd airborne division as he boarded a c-17. and enabled many of the evacuation flights. that step macmarking a chaotic end to a war that cost trillion dollars through the years and thousands of american lives, many thousands more injured. with the united states gone the taliban is celebrating the takeover. new video shows taliban fighters entering kabul airport, seizing, surveying large...