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Keep peace. the concern was war inside a city of 6 million people. we knew if ghani left, the guns would be silent. talks were meant for monday but on sunday the taliban hit kabul's outskirts. they got the final demand to surrender from a man the u.s. wanted as a terrorist, ha halil hakani. he's a long-term taliban negotiator wanted a peaceful transfer of power and the government should issue a statement of surrender, but ghani fled and they said there was no single scapegoat here because the process was never fully controlled by afghans in the first place. so just remember that particular mom...

That took place before he fled the country, including the role of an al qaeda affiliated character in all of this. >> reporter: yeah, it is utterly startling. so many people have been asking what happened when the president disappeared without notice. he told me one thing i will never be able to forget. halil hakani, a negotiator for the taliban, they are affiliated with al qaeda, he is the guy who went to the afghan government's national security adviser and said, you guys have to surrender. you have to hand over the reins of power peacefully and hours later, that's what they did. here's what...

The pakistani security state. we have reporting just last night that the hakani network which is a designated foreign terrorist organization led by terrorists has been placed in charge of security in kabul. in other words, there are terrorists in charge of policing the streets of kabul under the taliban government right now. so that just puts the lie that the taliban are going to fight the terrorists or they're going to disassociate themselves or that kabul will become a place where we don't have a terrorist threat or that al qaeda is gone because on the ground as nick peyton walsh reported, t...

Power. there are some serious doubts right now in the white house is where? >> kayleigh: it is great question. what do you think the taliban is thinking? when they look at the united states as it kabul has fallen in for seven days we see in the commander in chief one time give it a weak kneed speech where he averted blame. what you think they think when wednesday he warned afghanistan and on thursday evening he goes to delaware. what did he think with the taliban is holding a press conference? but joe biden will not. leaders do what president trump did it when i signed go to the mitigation roo...