CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell August 19, 2021 19:21:00
Going to go back in hindsight and look, but the idea that somehow there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don't know how that happens. i don't know how that happened. >> so for you, that was always priced into the decision? >> yes. now, exactly what happened was not priced in, but i knew that they're going to have an enormous -- look, one of the things we didn't know is what the taliban would do in terms of trying to keep people from getting out, what they would do. >> with us now cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins, david chalian. the president was defensive ...