CNN Anderson Cooper 360 August 26, 2021 00:34:00
Administration was they took that forecast as gospel. they said, oh, our experts say the afghan government is going to survive for months, well then that's what's going to happen. they didn't do enough contingency planning. they didn't say to themselves, well, wait a second what are the chances the government is actually going to collapse in weeks or has happened, days, and what's our plan for that? and i think if they'd taken seriously the possibility the government would collapse in days, and they had reason to take it vseriously. as you talked about they had people saying, look, this govern...