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Son- soldiers fighting with him. i agree with president biden in terms of it's time for the u.s. soldiers to come to the u.s., but what i did not agree in how the plan was executed. i think there was a lot of intelligence failures. i think u.s. intelligence capabilities are under question. i also predicted in the future that if we leave, it's going to have a bad credibility on the u.s. in the world. so looking at what's happening and putting myself and my family, there's no way -- they could get killed among that crowd if not by the taliban. >> we know your organization rise to peace is about ...

It is not inevitable. the jury is still out, but the likelihood there's going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> reporter: look, as kylie was saying, the administration is now arguing that ultimately while they may have misestimated how long it would take the taliban to get to kabul, you know, they were prepared for the contingencies, and that's why they were able to get these forces in there to withdraw u.s. embassy personnel. but, again, there is a huge amount of daylight there between what the president said about a month and a half ...

Afghan government to be more stable. i would have expected the military to be more stable. but ultimately what happens now is what was a foregone conclusion the moment that trump announced the withdrawal of american troops on may 1st. the taliban simply ceased to negotiate and began to establish themselves and prepare for what has now happened. >> reporter: so, jim, still a lot of unanswered questions and lawmakers, some of them are calling for hearings regarding the intelligence failures. others simply want to hear from the president, which they anticipate will happen soon. and then there are...

Going to be trouble from the left, and that's why he was wearing body armor. there's no, real clarity on that, is there? >> no, there's no clarity in that. and, you know, i will try to follow up with him in the coming days to see if he says anything more. he did say this in the context of one of the things this new select committee should be looking at is intelligence failures or failures for people to act on intelligence failures. so i -- you know, maybe, he got it from an official source. or maybe, it was just, you know, someone in the -- in the right-wing community. some of these communitie...

That happened that day, not just what donald trump did and rallying supporters but everything around it, the intelligence failures, the breakdown in the capitol. this is going to be a thorough and deep investigation that could take some time. subpoenas will likely be issued. and ultimately this could spill into next year in election year where congress is at stake. and that was one of the big concerns of the republicans going into all of this, concern that this could overshadow their election year message, one reason why they fought this investigation for months. jim? >> all right, we'll be wa...