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Tonight, as america brings its afghan rule to an end, the taliban are back in charge. president ghani has fled the country and now, afghan refugees are trying to do the same. we'll have reaction from the former afghan ambassador to the u.s. and former army ranger and afghan veteran, colorado congressman, jason crow. plus, how did we get to this point and where do we go from here? we'll have live updates. good evening. it was december 2001 when then president george w. bush made this announcement.

Welcome back to the big saturday show. inside now for a big saturday flops. let's start with joey. >> my big saturday flops goes back to december 2001 with the time magazine. they titled last days of the taliban. looks like the tolerant is back in way, control more than thirds of the country. i spent some time in 2010, now ten years later and they are stronger than ever. >> those were some long days. >> yes. i don't understand it, i don't know what they were thinking, i don't remember what we were all thinking 20 years ago. >> call.

Close friends weren't extremely alarmed at first. afterall, he's he'd gone on drunken binders before. ginger miller started working at the law firm, december 2001, about the time he went missing. elisa couldent setonal on what the stat should tell people about larry. >> i was told that he was golfing or skiing. someplace they probably couldn't get ahold of him at. and if it was a client, i would have to say he's working on a deposition -- wawas with a client and-to fly out. >> i thoods # to my brother this doesn't sound right. >> october arrived. still no larry. thanksgiving and december he wa...

To do that we have given up trying to do, what's changed? >> what happened was, this is a classic thing in government. when the original mission catch bin ladin failed, we responded by making the mission bigger. if we had caught bin ladin in december 2001, american troops would not be in afghanistan. >> we are left politically without catching him? we tried to catch him, we couldn't? >> obviously fought. president bush decided he couldn't do that, president obama decided he couldn't do it. >> what are you thinking about our campaign over there for all these years? our mission, all those guys k...

>> no. she got progressively worse after the surgery. >> by thanksgiving, just six weeks after her surgery with weinberger, phyllis barnes was gasping for breath. repeated follow-up visits to the clinic brought no relief. her family feared she might have pneumonia. >> i had to call the ambulance one night to have her taken to the emergency room because she couldn't breathe. >> shawn barnes, phyllis' daughter, was only 16 at the time. >> she did end up pulling through, but it was a hard time to get through. >> within days of leaving the emergency room, phyllis was again gasping for breath. so i...