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Done over the past eight weeks. how do they do it? >> i don't think they will be able to do it to be honest with you. i think their performance as just mentioned clearly shows that they really haven't applied the lessons learned. there has been some improvement in their performance. but the ability to conduct the type of military operations that would be necessary to get that land bridge up and running so to speak, they simply have not shown that they have the capability to pull that type of operation off. >> so u.s. cybersecurity experts are warned about russian hacking efforts for more than ...

Seems to be more certainty about it, and intelligence officials are rarely, if ever, going to tell us why they feel the certainty and it tends to be they have more specific information that might lead them to believe vladimir putin has made a decision. we are still hearing they are not 100% he has made a decision or not, and putin has been known to make a decision at the last minute and it's plausible he could turn the entire operation off, and again, that's not something we are hearing as much of in the last several days. more and more officials i am speaking with feel he has made the decisio...

I think certainly things are in motion, but the question is whether it can all be pulled back and whether the president of russia is still able to call this operation off. i think that possibility must logically still exist, and therefore i think it's absolutely vital that we have a path of dialogue and reason. you know, you just cannot see how this makes sense for russia. imagine the invasion of ukraine, a country of 45 million people, second biggest country in europe geographically, apart from russia itself, an absolutely colossal place. you can't hold it down. it would be a protracted, viol...

Say their plan is to evacuate a thousands people a day from that kabul airport. from what you have seen and the chaos, will that be possible? >> reporter: it's difficult to imagine how they could achieve a goal like that without some sort of cooperation from the taliban, oddly, and some kind of agreement the taliban will allow the very people who have been assisting the afghan government. we saw today utter chaos. i think it will be hard to pull that operation off. when they first announced the idea of bringing tens of thousands of people out of the country seeing farfetched even if the afghan...

Proportionate to what happened. >> the president would not be able undertake a strike without first understanding, digesting, considering, wrestling with the potential casualties. this is not what happened. the story that the president has told, the story that has continued to change. we learned yesterday planes were not in the air. we also learned yesterday that he was, in fact, briefed on potential casualties before this. by the way, it wasn't by a general as he told chuck todd yesterday. so we still don't know why trump called this operation off. there are any number of possibilities. perha...