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The international airport in kabul trying to get out of the country as taliban troops move closer to the capital by the hour. today mazar-i-sharif, the last major city under afghan control fell into taliban hands after one day of fighting. criticism is coming in from allies and the u.s. let's dive deeper into the situation with the help of nbc's jonathan allen and military contributor, retired colonel jack jacobs. thank you for joining us. jonathan, i want to ask about the statement we saw in the last hour from the president pointing back at his predecessor for the blame in all of this. what d...

Commander who went back to the secretary of defense and then the president saying there were not enough troops with the 3,000. don't forget, some are support troops, and that he needed more people. thus, more combat troops. one should always be concerned that there's an insufficient number. with respect to the danger to the troops there, one interesting approach is to look at it this way. the taliban have probably very little incentive to attack american troops while they are evacuating americans from the embassy and are likely to wait until they're all gone before they close in on kabul. the ...

Said. we know that legislation doesn't happen as quickly as we want it to. we know there's a process. we know there's a lot of stuff happening behind the scenes. the country cannot be too patient, but i think we deserve to give them some more time. i take leader schumer at his word it is the first item up to bat in september, and i think the country is rememberie for ready for the rally after the recess. >> thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. right now american forces are evacuating u.s. embassy workers out of afghanistan as the taliban continues the advance towards kabul. how long c...

Not only foreseeable but foreseen. the kentucky senator saying, quote, it is not too late to prevent the taliban from overrunning kabul and advising the biden administration to use airstrikes to prevent what he calls the seemingly imminent fall of kabul. look, this is the first real foreign policy test for the biden administration. congress though reacting across the board and the concern swift. >> ali, i do want to ask you. you talk about infrastructure as well. what has been the fall-out so far after moderate house democrats sent that letter to speaker pelosi on thursday pushing for a stand-...

Attack american troops as we're trying to evacuate the embassy. >> a lot of people have been wondering why we haven't seen air attacks or attacks with drones or stuff like that. can you help us to understand why that is? >> well, the targets are there to be sure. one explanation is that there is some sort of arrangement to permit that, the taliban to not be targeted while they're taking over the area as long as they leave american people, americans and allies alone inside kabul. i mean that's a conspiratorial look. but another explanation, and they're not mutually exclusive, is we don't want t...