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Said too dangerous to release. they traded them for the deserter, bowe bergdahl. now, that commander, is sitting right there at the desk making commands and taking over afghanistan. jacqui heinrich, our reporter in washington, pressed jen psaki on this. does the president regret it? listen. >> the administration is left to negotiate with the taliban, including one of the commandos released from prisoner swap when president biden was vice president. how is he digesting. >> that first i would note one i would point to the department of it intelligence to assess the individual. that's not my -- i...

Speech yesterday it was faster than we anticipated, but we don't really know why it wasn't anticipated. was it intelligence? was the intelligence disregarded? the other question would be, why didn't you do more with the time that you had to get tens of thousands of not only american personnel, but you the afghan personnel who helped the united states out of the country? having said that, the difference between success and fail your for biden is not whether the taliban took over the country, because it was obvious they were going to take over the country in either case. the difference between t...

Straight with you. the truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. so what's happened? afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country. the afghan military collapsed. american troops cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves. >> reporter: now, he did say there that this did happen faster than they anticipated. he did not say why. that has been a big question, jake. is it the intelligence, was it intelligence that they did not believe was incredibly likely to happen given what we've seen...

Election and it would have been unfair to say anything before we knew what happened. >> in the terms of the way it played out, you have become a poster child along with seflgve of your colleagues for the claims from the president and the attorney general that the trump slb ru trump/russia investigation was cooked up just to hurt his chances of getting elected. but the problem there is that nobody in the country knew about the investigation before peopled a a chance to vote on him. and as an observer, i find that flabbergasting. how does not comport with what you knew? >> this is no one on this...

Will be described as intelligent behavior. looked at from into the consumer i think it's a step too far to call it intelligence i prefer to think of it as complex reactions . which were planters trying to find a solution to the critical to or sometimes not so critical situation it finds itself in to ensure its survival and. i do believe. these survival strategies are genetically programmed they've evolved throughout the course of evolution to protect the planet and keep predators up. i. it seems we can also bribe plants with some won't grape vines grow better when they're exposed to lots of mu...