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Forces. it's how they were withdrawn. the rapidity, the hastiness. president obama's former ambassador to afghanistan called the way this was done, quote, a handover to the taliban and, quote, we have hung them out to dry about the afghan people. crocker continued, quote, i'm left with some grave questions in my mind about biden's ability to lead our nation as commander-in-chief. to have read this so wrong or even worse to have understood what was likely to happen and not care, unquote. does president biden not bear the blame for this disasterous exit from afghanistan? >> jake, we've seen two ...

Welcome back to "state of the union." i'm jake tapper. the state of new york is soon to be under historic new leadership after long time democratic governor andrew cuomo resigned in disgrace this week in the face of 11 claims of sexual harassment by former aides, a state trooper, and others some of which the governor denies. others he says are just misunderstandings. cuomo's replacement lieutenant governor kathy hochul will be the first woman ever to lead new york state a delicious bit of irony to emerge from the whole sorry and ugly mess and one of hochul's first goals is to, quote, clean up ...

Afghanistan now is going to become a hotbed of terrorism? >> jake, we have tremendously more capacity than we had before 9/11 when it comes to counterterrorism. in places around the world where we don't have forces on the ground, in yemen, parts of africa, parts of syria, we are able to deal with any potential terrorist threat to our country and we're doing that every single day. we're going to retain in the region the over the horizon capacity as we call it to see and deal with any re-emergence of a terrorist threat. look, i can't tell you what the taliban is going to do, but again, in their ...

Recognize. conversely, a government that doesn't do that, that doesn't uphold the basic rights of its people including women and girls, that harbors terrorist groups that have designs on the united states or allies and partners, certainly that is not going to happen. and beyond that, to the extent the taliban has a self-interest, if it is leading the government in afghanistan, of assistance from the international community, support from the international community, none of that will be forthcoming. sanctions won't be lifted. their ability to travel won't happen. if they're not sustaining the b...

Question of how poorly this was done. the idea that president biden ordered 2500 service members out and now is sending up to 5,000 service members back in, does that not on its face show the exit was ineptly planned and, again, look. you told me a few months ago on this program that you thought it was entirely likely the taliban would be taking over the country. but president biden just last month, quote, the likelihood there is going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. he was wrong. >> jake, what we've done, what the president has done, i...