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Brianna keilar. and the breaking news scenes of chaos in afghanistan as the government there has collapsed. the taliban has taken control of the capital after a stunningly rapid sweep through the country. it happened much faster than the biden administration predicted or promised. and it has led to heart breaking images like this, this morning at the airport in kabul. hundreds of people flooding the tarmac, desperate to leave, literally chasing a plane. at this moment, u.s. embassy officials are warning americans who are still in the city not to travel to the airport because it's unsafe, but a...

Insurgents overran key provincial capitals in the span of the last week. embassy officials have warned americans still in the city not to travel to the airport because it is unsafe. but as of now, it is the only way out. we heard from a white house official, there's no way to get those folks to the airport. the pentagon is rushing 1,000 more combat troops to secure the perimeter to get american personnel and others safely evacuated. >> president biden was briefed at camp david over the weekend. he's still there. they are planning to proceed with the withdrawal of all u.s. troops, despite the s...

Provincial governors, and what we have seen with the last week or so them coming to collect the surrenders, and it was a very, very effective campaign. and it does not seem that the united states had any inkling of what was going on, and it did not seem like the afghan government had much inkling of what was going on either. it sort of buried his head in the sand and instead of reinforcing and preparing its defences, itjust continue to hope the united states would keep combat troops in country, and when president biden made it quite clear, and president trump before him, that i was not going t...

>> on that note, what you would you say to the white house who would say, well, you don't want to keep combat troops on the ground, risking their lives. you don't want to be in another country's civil conflict in perpetuity, and also this argument that they're just carrying out the deal that the trump administration struck with the taliban. >> number one, president biden has shown no problem with tearing up trump administration deals, whether it was keystone, the iran policy, israel and palestine. so to say you can't pivot from your predecessor, i think, frankly, is a febckless excuse. what we...

Combat troops in country, and when president biden made it quite clear, and president trump before him, that that was not going to be the case. you have sat in on negotiations, negotiated with the taliban in the past. from their present public pronouncements, do you think they have changed? what i am hearing from them, and you just played the interview with their spokesman, is what they have been saying for several years. and so now the question is, or the taliban going to follow what they have said in terms of inspecting human rights, and other they've essentially taken over in afghanistan? t...