CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer August 13, 2021 22:16:00
Suppose that is not the reality everywhere. >> reporter: absolutely not. quiet here, but it feels like the calm before the storm, jim. i spoke to one official who is based here. he said, can you hear the sound of silence? that's a sign here of everyone packing, packing to leave because people are desperately afraid of what's happening around the country. half of the provincial capitals now under the control of the taliban in the space of just over a week. it's extraordinary. no one could have predicted this. and among those provincial capitals, some pretty major cities, most prominently of cou...