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There were no embassy officials around to help. this woman has no connection to the u.s. or to the u.s. embassy or a company or contractor, but she is just saying out of mercy, her husband died several years ago, and she is afraid the taliban are going to come, and she is afraid they're going do horrible things to women and children. so she is just here hoping that maybe there is a possibility that she can get a visa for her son. >> reporter: there was a plan for a peaceful transition, a plan for the taliban to enter kabul and then share power with the u.s.-backed government. but there is an o...

Most everything else, president biden also wanted out of afghanistan. he deposed the troop surge while vice president, and he didn't change a word of trump's deal with the taliban. all he did was push back the date for all u.s. troops to leave from may to august 31st. >> war in afghanistan was never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking. we were attacked. we went to war with clear goals. we achieved those objectives. bin laden is dead, and al qaeda is degraded in iraq and afghanistan. and it's time to end the forever war. >> with the deadline looming in kabul, afghans knew they were now ...

Reformed as they sought international recognition. i met the taliban's main spokesman. he arrived with an entourage of guards, some in their olden my's uniforms. this war started when osama bin laden as a guest of the taliban organized 9/11 attacks. can you guarantee that this country will never again be a base for terrorism? >> translator: when osama bin laden became an issue for americans, he was in afghanistan. although there was no proof he was involved, now we have given promises that afghan soil won't be used against anyone. >> you still don't think that osama bin laden carried out 9/11?...

Troops were already home, during his reelection rallies, pulling them out became an applause line. >> after 19 years of conflict and very close to 20, we can finally begin to bring our amazing troops back home. >> opinion polls said ending the war was universally popular among americans. but the way trump did it may have set in motion a tragedy. president trump sent his secretary of state mike pompeo to doha, qatar, to sign a peace deal with the taliban. it was very straight forward. as long as the taliban stopped attacking american troops, all u.s. forces would leave afghanistan by may 1st, 2...

Especially for females in these 20 years. but nowadays everything is done. >> what is it like to have a dream and then suddenly site disappear? >> sometimes when i'm free, i'm thinking that we are so unlucky that we are afghan. sometimes. so it's so hard. >> reporter: the taliban painted their flag across the abandoned american embassy in kabul. having returned to power far stronger and better armed than they'd ever been before. >> in afghanistan, we didn't fight a 20-year war. we foug 20 one-year wars