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Hi, everybody. breaking news. i m kendis gibson. some troops are on the ground as the embassy in kabul has evacuated. other countries are making similar moves. they have all closed their embassies or at least are operating on a skeleton crew. for the u.s., the withdrawal strategy comes at a cost and a high one. some say the retreat serves as another blow to the united states credibility of the world stage. nbc correspondent meagan fitzgerald is joining us right now with all of of the latest developments. and following all of this, meagan, some have established u.s. as a global leader. is this casting doubt at least from your purview over there? reporter: you know, kendis, i can tell you there s growing concern and criticism in the way president biden has handled the situation. if you take a look at the last ....
Taking the hit, accepting how this is playing out and trusting that the majority of americans will agree with him. but, shannon, what do you think is going on with biden s thinking, and do you think there will be any shift? reporter: well, this is certainly not the outcome that the administration had hoped for or expected just as recently as july. the president said it was not a possibility that afghan would fall under taliban control, certainly not this quickly. the white house, though, says that the president has no regrets, no second thoughts about his decision to pull out troops. the president, the administration officials have maintained for months now that they believe there is no military solution in afghanistan, that the role of the u.s. military is to protect u.s. interests and keeping u.s. forces in afghanistan is not going to help advance u.s. national security interests at this point and after nearly 20 years now, it is no longer a ....
It all gets time. i want to get back to our breaking news story from the top, especially the congressional reaction to the developments in afghanistan. i know leader mitch mcconnell came out with a very harsh statement. what are we hearing? he called for more air strikes in the region. lindsey graham push backed on biden. he said he s going to come up with ideas how to de-escalate tangs in the region. we re seeing a lot of pushback from the republicans. silenced from democrats, president biden is also silent on this issue publicly, but we ll see what happens in the next couple of weeks. we know the senate held a briefing on monday before things got really bad in the area. and we know august 23rd speaker ....
Military, pentagon, administration, whatever you want to call it, surprised by how fast the taliban was able to move across the country? courtney, we saw the taliban making advances before biden came into office. this is a different ball game. we have noted. and we have noted with great concern the speed at which they have been moving and the lack of resistance that they have faced. colonel, you just talked about that, the surprise was the speed at which the taliban was overtaking the country. i hate to play armchair analysis right now, but where was there a failure. was it in intelligence, not equipping the afghan army enough? well, there were failures across the board. our first mission to go in there 20 years ago was to get rid of the taliban and ostensibly leave, but that morphed into a ....
Pakistan, sort of south and southeast. so it s a really challenging situation for people who don t have the means, don t already have visas, and don t have a lot of money. you re talking tens of thousands of dollars in order to get visas or go the smuggler route to get out of the country. it s really, really difficult right now. even just a day or two ago, flights stwarting to get booked up. it was getting very difficult to get a plane ticket to get out of kabul. so there really aren t a lot of options. what we ve seen over the past few days is thousands of people coming to kabul in the hopes that the capital city will be held, that it will be a safe space, and that s creating its own problems, a humanitarian crisis unfolding before our eyes with thousands of people with no money, no shelter, no food, heavily reliant on aid agency. shannon, let s go to you now. president biden seems to be ....