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>> thank you. >> thank you so much. >> thank you, michael. we come back, violence in ukraine pushing thousands of innocent people out of their homeland and forcing them away from their loved ones. we'll be right back. >> my husband is still there. we'll fight. even if europe doesn't help us. >> hear from some of these new refugees in their own words when we come back.
Perhaps grim chapter could be coming in the next couple of days. the way the ukrainians held back the russians, pushed them back in some cases has been widely praised rightly admired and almost certainly vladimir putin has been seeing that. he's been caught off guard by how much more difficult this has been for his forces but the russians of course still have that overwhelming superiority in numbers and material. the fear i think don is the russians are going to ratchet things up and bring in heavy equipment and a heavy hand and cause more pain. if they go into a city the size of kyiv. how blo...
Collapse of the afghan government and they would have a vac suuum and be able to rise. it wasn't absence of taliban would over take the afghan government but the speed. that's one key element of this that seems to have been missing. the intelligence reports they were receiving were saying look, this could happen within 30 to 90 days. we're not quite sure. we saw it happen from friday to monday essentially the taliban over took kabul and in control of the virtuely the entire country. >> we heard on friday kabul was not in imminent danger or threat of being taken over by the taliban and 48 hours...
Vanished. i remember reporting on soldiers in 2010 and hearing these stories about ghost soldiers, commanders would pad out unit numbers and get the salaries and pocket it. there was a lack of motivation and moral and air support went away, drone support, ground sup support. there is one other factor that needs mentioning, though. the taliban is ideologically driven. tha they desire, their wish is to die in battle in gjihad. that's not the case with most of the afghan army. they want to go home to their 60,000 of them died. without u.s. support they saw writing on the wall. >> such important c...
I mean, this is a tough situation. >> let me ask this miscalculations. how did that happen, though, is my question. you heard from michael holms. i've been speaking all night to veterans who are on the ground saying of course this would be the case. this is inevitable. of course they won't put up a fight against the taliban. we seen this play out a couple years ago. the same movie in iraq with the forces there that the u.s. trained and equipped. dropped their weapons and run in the face of isis. how did this miscalculations happen? >> i think that the fact they were not fighting and standing u...