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And what's remarkable is, if you take a step back and look at what we've been hearing out of the u.s. side during this taliban offensive is that the afghan military is 350,000 strong and that they have this asymmetric advantage of the air force that the taliban does not have. and so because of that, they should be able to take on the taliban which, when the offensive began, they were numbering somewhere around 77, 75,000 taliban fighters. that's just proven to be untrue. it just shows that the very size of the military and this advantage of having an air force, which the taliban did not have, ...

Knowing that they would have potential medevacs, that they would have personnel recovery assets at their capability if needed, that all went away when the u.s. announced that they were going to have the military out within just a couple weeks from now. and it caused a real morale problem in the afghan military. so the assessments that said that afghan military would continue to fight against the taliban, well, that didn't factor that in and it didn't factor in one other enormous thing, and that is the taliban have been -- have shown they're willing to fight and die for their cause. well, the a...

0 jaw-dropping developments. >> thank you, dan. appreciate it. we are nearing the top of the hour right here on msnbc as we continue to watch these live pictures coming from the city of kabul. a city that is right now encircled by the taliban. by some reports, the taliban have been spotted within the streets of the city. there are reports that negotiations are taking place within the presidential palace there in the capital city. it's not clear if ashraf ghani who is taking part of those negotiations. also, we got word on that power will be transferred to a third-party, a temporary third-party...

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Now there is a hiccup during the isis invasion. but that was because they had a different government in charge. there was a lot of corruption, a lot of political problems in their leadership and their connection with the military and the military truthfully went awol because they weren't getting paid and leaders were being replaced in iraq. none of that kind of instance, as we do the analysis in the dissection of afghanistan, is what is happening in afghanistan. there is a corruption within the government, the security forces have not taken hold in afghanistan other than the special operators....