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Narrative correct that we have accomplished nothing in afghanistan? maybe now we are realising we did may be accomplished quite a bit, as we see the rights of the people we have supported over these years being extinguished. it was the was a narrative correct that we could not sustain the effort? we were spending the equivalent of 2.5% of our defence budget on operations in afghanistan. even before the capitulation agreement we had 8500 troops there. that is a lot if you are ecuador, but we are not ecuador and actually at the time of withdrawal there are more coalition troops there, european a...

Government, ashraf ghani fled on a plane as this was falling apart. does the u.s. military share responsibility going back several years for misleading the american people as to what the u.s. had built there in terms of a credible afghan security force and a credible afghan government? >> well, i'll tell you, jim, in my experience we were very candid about short comings within the afghan national security forces and part of the design was a sustained commitment by the united states. helping them with their asymmetrical abilities, the air power capabilities that were different from the talibans...

0 casualties are unclear at this time. we will provide additional details when we can. we also learned moments ago that president biden has been briefed on that explosion outside of kabul airport. a white house official tells cnn. and we are waiting on a pentagon press briefing which will happen in about 30 minutes from now. the back ground on this, as you look at a live picture from the kabul airport, that in recent days and yesterday we reported the u.s. has been very concerned about a credible threat stream about potential terror attacks targeting the gates to the airport and the crowds aro...

Adviser h.r. mcmaster said about the role former secretary of state mike pompeo played in what we're seeing now. >> our secretary of state signed a surrender agreement to the taliban. >> you're talking about mike pompeo? >> yes. this collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. the taliban didn't defeat us, we defeated ourselves. >> so that's h.r. mcmaster, national security advisor for trump talking about trump's secretary of state just in real time that he saw this happening. and, max, now they do something that is so trump-y, which is now pretend they're on the other side of th...

American opinions. as lo gist cat matter, this has been a disaster. should be clear that the benefits of small residual force rather than complete abandonment of bagram air force would be better. this speaks volumes about how we got here. >> our secretary of state signed a surrender agreement to the taliban. this collapse goes back to the capitulation agreement of 2020. i mean, the taliban didn't defeat us. we defeated ourselves. >> a surrender agreement that's retired lieutenant general h.r. mcmaster forming mike pompeo for his negotiations with the taliban. that inexpublicly excluded our afg...