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Kabul. describe what you're seeing as the taliban enters that capital city. >> reporter: well, again, after hearing the noise of helicopters in the sky during the afternoon. we're hearing them again now in the dark of night, a sign that there's continued activity by the u.s. to move their personnel around in this unprecedented collapse, frankly, of the government of afghanistan. the most startling piece of news i've heard in about ten days of repeated shock aftershock here is the unannounced of president ashraf ghani, the man who went on television in the last 24 hours to say he wished to stay...

>> how low is the bar? >> i don't know if you ever -- this isn't really your politic. if you ever read naomi kline's shock doctrine. it's shock aftershock aftershock. you can never quite take in the enormity of it all. all the things you just listed. think back 20 years ago last week, this week was the monica lewinsky scandal breaking. think about what an earth shattering revelation that was. we're having monica lewinsky level scandals this, this many in one week. >> the government hadn't shut down a week ago this hour. >> you've done some of the best analysis of the president's twitter feed. ...

The cover up. >> that's right. >> what i would say is as far as we know, what we have here is a guy who has spent his career, you know, suing people and paying people off. and so the blackmail issue is an interesting one because it may not be as, you know, horrifying as he is blackmailable by a foreign leerader. >> how low is the bar? >> i don't know if you ever -- this isn't really your politic. if you ever read naomi kline's shock doctrine. it's shock aftershock aftershock. you can never quite take in the enormity of it all. all the things you just listed. think back 20 years ago last week, ...