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Still no answer on how exactly the united states was caught so flat footed. jake sullivan today doubling down on this idea administration prepared for all contingencies including the rapid fall of kabul. belied by images of chaos we saw on the grounds at kabul airport but he did argue that chaos was inevitable in someways, that whether -- when -- no matter when the taliban would have entered kabul, at some point or another, you would have seen these images of desperation of people trying to get out. that was a point jake sullivan did try to hammer home. as for the president, we are expecting t...

White house flat footed. on saturday after pulling out almost all of the 2500 service members there when he took office, president biden said he would deploy more than more u.s. troops, 5,000 now total for the limited mission of getting americans and others fleeing sa safely out of kabul warning of a, quote, swift and strong u.s. response if the taliban interfere. with the constant thereon of helicopters overhead sources tell cnn this morning a total of americans from our embassy in kabul is well under way and should be completed by tuesday. that is a sharp turn-around from six weeks ago when ...

And trying to gin up, i guess, more violence or people to go to the capitol on august 13th. what's the plan for that date? >> reporter: yeah, so the capitol police force has put in a number of changes since january 6th. the big structural changes have been targetded at trying to mak the department more of an intelligence-driven organization, in particular given the criticism they were caught flat footed or didn't predict january 6th even as it was being planned out in the open on the internet. so what has that meant in practice? that has meant more intelligence alerts getting pushed to line of...

The climate does change and affects an administration that was frankly not prepared for this foreign policy crisis. this was a back burner issue that they thought would not have to be dealt with. and they thought they had time to get the arms around this. they were focused on china and then russia and other alliances and hit them in the face and some feel that they were flat footed. >> what i'm wondering is if they're surprised. he's such a known entity as senator who had more say and a really public role on the senate foreign relations committee as vice president who was according to former p...

That announcement was so out of the blue, so unexpected that it caught the pentagon flat-footed. in one fell swoop the president publicly contradicted his own defense secretary's whole military strategy. nato has proved to be another sore spot. several times over the course of 2018 president trump told top officials that he wanted to withdraw from the military alliance, an alliance seen as one of the most effective deterrents to russian military aggression. those repeated threats sent the president's national security team including defense secretary jim mattis scrambling to keep american stra...