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with gkritcriticism. we know we needed to get the afghan allies that work so closely with the troops out of the country and the siv process had completely shut down under the trump administration. that's one of those cascading failures. we know thousands of taliban prisoners had been released following the u.s. taliban agreement negotiated by secretary of state pompeo over the objections of the afghan president beghani. that's another cascading failure. i support president biden's decision, here is what i think we needed to do before that happened. we had to get the siv process rebooted and running efficiently. and frankly, we should have started the withdrawal process earlier, months ago which would have given us the ability and time to get more people out without antagonizing the taliban because they would have known we were on our way out. so, you know, and lastly, i
fighting between the united states and these terror groups. >> so when you say groups plural and you had referenced the taliban as a terror group, by the way, leon panetta did, as well. the united states is negotiated with the taliban and without formally recognizing them essentially doing so in practice with how we're working with them and phil mattingly asked the white house press secretary today if the white house working with the taliban was, you know, the best of bad options or the only option? i want to play part of her response for you, fareed. >> we don't trust the taliban. this is not about trust. but there is a reality on the ground, and the reality is the afghan -- the taliban control large swaths of afghanistan including the area surrounding the perimeter of the airport. so by necessity, that is our option to coordinate with to get american citizens out, to get our afghan partners out. >> so by necessity, do you agree
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credible threats and we want to make sure we're prepared. >> reporter: the pentagon warning those could be rocket or vehicle bombs. in kabul, families collect the bodies of loved ones and survivors come to terms with what has happened. this man says that he was an interpreter for the british and among the hundreds of afghan wounded. i fell into the stream and thought i was the only one alive. i saw all the other people were dead. more than 5,000 evacuees are waiting for flights attica beau kabul's airport and italy and spain ended their missions in afghanistan. >> we have the ability to include evacuees on u.s. military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. >> reporter: the walls of kabul's airport are stained with blood as afghanistan counts down the final days of america's longest war. erin, this is the bloodiest attack committed by isis-k but
think there must have been intelligence. i don't buy that the president had bad intelligence quite frankly based on everything i've heard from my colleagues on the intel committee. i believe there was intelligence that the afghan government and military would quick ly get out. the cascading failures are not just attributed to the biden administration. i want to make that clear. >> i understand what you're saying. okay. all your points here are important but to the point you just made about the intelligence, right? you know, as you point out. you can go to this point or this point or this point but on that specific point, right, you're saying that you believe this intelligence was available. that's a pretty significant thing. first of all, if it wasn't available, how the heck could they have missed this in such a huge way? i understand that question. if it was available, did -- were they afraid to tell president
taliban hopes to be putting on now because they need desperately need global support. we have to wait to see what their behavior looks like. we're going to find out, i guarantee, that there will be more similarities than there are differences between taliban 2.0 and taliban og. >> all right. thank you both very much. appreciate your time. and next, was president biden given bad military advice on afghanistan? the white house tonight says no. my next guest a democratic congresswoman says the evacuation was egregiously mishandled and a very real possibility some in afghanistan whose lives are in danger may not get out. i'll speak to one of them. a man who says he helps the united states and worked for the united states for years. give you a sort of white smile.t try new crest whitening emulsions for 100% whiter teeth. its highly active peroxide droplets swipe on in seconds. better. faster. 100% whiter teeth. crestwhitesmile.com
a little preparation will make you and your family safer in an emergency. a week's worth of food and water, radio, flashlight, batteries and first aid kit are a good start to learn more, visit safetyactioncenter.pge.com tonight, stuck in kabul fearing for his life. that is the reality for our next guest, he was an interpreter for u.s. defense contractors for more than a decade in afghanistan and he's tried now several times to get to the airport in kabul. he hasn't made it yet. he's asked me tonight to use a
different name to protect himself and his family. he joins me by phone from afghanistan and akmad, you know, even as our producer tried to reach you today, you were fearful that the taliban was close by. how concerned are you for your safety and your family's safety as you're still in afghanistan? >> yes, it is really difficult time. i'm really, really concerned about me and my family because taliban in different occasions actually tried to, you know, get me, but fortunately, you know, i escaped from them and it is very, very dangerous time. >> and i know that you have an application, what we call a siv, the special immigrant visa and you have that to leave the country. you've provided as part of that
introducing inpmpeachment artics for antony blinken. up next, is member of the foreign affairs committee demanding answers over an evacuation that she describes as agegregiously mishandled. i appreciate your willingness to speak out what happened. you're talking about your words cascading failures to led to this moment. what kind of accountability are you demanding from biden and his administration? >> erin, thank you for having me. let me express my sympathies to the wife and family of ralylee mccollum. my heart goes out to them and the families that will be hearing terrible news over the next hours. i want to explain what i mean by cascading failures and want to tell you i 100% agree with the president's decision to withdrawal from afghanistan. it was a brave and necessary decision that no president in the last ten years was willing to make and i'm not piling on
yemen, in syria. so the question is do you need to have a large permanent position, you know, occupation of afghanistan to fight the war on terror and what president biden is arguing it is possible to fight the war on terror using counterterrorism tools, using special ops, using drones, using intelligence and you go to where they are and you hit them but then you don't sit there, and i think, you know, there is certainly many, many very effective counterterrorism operations that the united states has done in the last 20 years that have not required an in person presence in the sense that we had one in afghanistan. i think leon is right but i think he might be -- i'm not sure he meant it but i don't think he meant that we have to reoccupy afghanistan. i think he's saying there is still going to be a lot of