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>> exactly. >> and the evacuation, the again the hurried and defeated evacuation from saigon. we do not afford to of that picture or that image but we're getting close to that. bear in mind that where the ambassador is where the embassy is. if the ambassador and his counselor staff are at the airport, and in kabul, that is where the embassy is. the building is irrelevant. and the only function that we should really take care of right now is protect the noncombatants, have that military presence, they're going to be in country to make sure that the taliban cannot range the airport to facilitate...

Country. so you now have u.s. troops moving in to help get the americans out. you have u.s. troops wanting to be visible, to send a message to the taliban, don't mess with us while we're in kabul. just don't do it. so there is a lot of tension over the coming days about what will happen. but i think very rapidly there are also long-term strategic questions emerging. president biden said the u.s. could get out of afghanistan because it was no longer a safe haven for terror groups to plan a execute a homeland attack. but clearly all of this movement by the taliban great uncertainty in the region...

Have penetrated kabul over the past 10, 12 years. but the operation is meant to last two to three years -- two to three weeks. so get the u.s. diplomats out and a skeleton staff just at the airport but also to begin possibly getting out the tens of thousands of afghans who worked with the united states who feel threatened by the taliban advance who may be able to apply for special visas. that is a mammoth task with a dangerous part of the city at the same time i imagine and we're getting indications that the diplomacy is trying to kick in at some point. we've just seen today now half of provin...

Said just a month ago. >> you have the afghan troops have 300,000 well equipped, as well equipped as any army in the world, and an air force. against something like 75,000 taliban. it is not inevitable. the jury is still out. but the likelihood there is going to be the taliban over running everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> so, you were there. you were on the ground. you're on the intelligence committee now. why did the administration and the more broadly the u.s. government get it so wrong? >> i don't think we know yet. we're in the middle of this mission. this mis...

Afghanistan. nick, as the united states prepares to leave that country, thousands of american troops are headed back in. they're going to help with a really complicated and poten potentially dangerous process of evacuating american diplomats. tell us what is going on there. >> reporter: tomorrow we'll see 3,000 marines land in kabul. whether the u.s. had a presence for quite a long time but this is the focus of the security operation providing a bit more of a security blanket into the rest of kabul towards the embassy. quite a big area potentially there. the marines will have influence over an...