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Advisor should have known better. >> and of course with corruption so widespread within the afghan government and the taliban apparently paying off afghan troops to walk away without a shot being fired, would this outcome have been any different whether the u.s. left five years from now or five years ago? >> it would not have been different if the u.s. continued to do in afghanistan what it has done for most of the 20 years which is allow this corruption to take root and to grow and to poorly train and poorly motivate the afghan military and security forces. just because things have gone badly...

Fighting for themselves. so it is time, after 20 years. but, remember, we went in to get osama bin laden and to make sure that the terrorists there could no longer organize to threat against us -- now we -- to fight against us. we were successful. we could have left then. but we thought it would be goods to try and change the tide for women and girls particularly. we stayed there another 18 years, did all that we could. if they don't have the will to foyt -- we can't make them have the will to fight. a lot of this time -- they moved so quickly without a shot being fired in someplaces. >> to po...

That airport and to continue these evacuations, that that mission continues and is brought to a positive conclusion. that's his overriding focus right now. he is deeply engaged on it and yes at the right point he will absolutely address the american people. >> at the right point. the taliban are confiscating weapons and killing anyone they know helped the united states over the last few years. critics want to see a little more urgency in evacuating those afghans. >> there are apparently gun fights breaking out there. tens of thousands of afghans on the runway. we need to get folks out as quick...

Comes to shoef, the real comp complexion have not changed fundamentally, which is why so many people here are now in a state of panic and chaos desperately trying to get out of the city before they enter. >> and it is worth reiterating, you have not seen any signs of resistance from the afghan's defense forces so far? i know we were congressmening on how many of the city's recently fell without a shot being fired. oh, we have lost clarissa there. we'll try to get her back a little later. that was clarissa ward in kabul. we'll bring in cyril vania. the military recently that it would take 30 da...

They've done it without a shot being fired. they gone in and made some deal. there's a lot of corruption in afghanistan. the governor who was a government governor may say i'll be a taliban governor. that's happening in some places. they're not actually fighting a full war in order to get some of these places. that's the difference with kabul. they will actually have to fight somebody to take control over kabul and that will be a battle which is why it's not likely to happen today because we'll know it's happening but that's exactly right. there are -- we have material, we have arms that we've...