CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper August 18, 2021 20:11:00
Indication that an army the size of the afghan army, which i think was estimated in the hundreds of thousands, no indication that it would collapse in 11 days. as somebody who has covered this war now for a long time, what do you think? >> reporter: i think -- listen, to be fair, jake, no one ever thought that this whole thing would unravel in a matter of days. no one thought that the taliban would be able to take kabul, a city of 6 million people in a matter of hours while barely firing a shot. if you had written this in a movie script, people would've said it was over the top. it really does...