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Get that done to accomplish their mission. it's sad and not only a joke for america but the president of the united states and what our foreign policy has become. todd: is the white house simply ignoring the g.o.p. request for those numbers or is this proof that the white house has no idea what these numbers are in the first place? >> actually, i think it's both this white house has been ignoring g.o.p. requests on everything since this administration took over. they're the least transparent administration, i think, we frankly have ever seen in our country. there has been letters from us talki...

Leave afghanistan. two-part question number one, why do we believe anything the taliban is saying unless we see it to come true. number two, wasn't this the threat all along when we left and left it to taliban rule? >> of course this was the threat. and we should neff listen to the taliban at all. this all could have been avoided and i think frankly everybody knows it at this point. we never should have left americans behind. we never should have left green card holders behind. we never should have left our interpreter and people who helped us on the ground behind. we should have stayed until ...

The one gentleman is supposed to be the mastermind for the fall of afghanistan. >> up close and personal and learned, learned about our breasts and who we are as a nation to retake afghanistan and see how successful his plan in 11 days. >> we have americans and afghan allies in afghanistan, knowing what we know about the taliban and the scenes we watched play out over the last few weeks? >> those people having probably been killed, the way that caliban operates. jillian: when bo bergdahl was freed in exchange for these prisoners, you said it is not a surprise but do you think it

And it is sad to see them coming down after growing up with them always here. >> reporter: tonight a community reckoning with a painful past, focusing on the future now crews will return tomorrow to remove a time capsule that historians believe is in the cornerstone of that pedestal, replacing it with artifacts from what they say is the current moment in time lester >> all right, shaq, thank you. now to afghanistan, where the biden administration is still relying on the taliban to facilitate the exit of stranded americans a hardline taliban government emerging as a new terror threat to the u...

>> we accomplished a lot under our counterterrorism mission and largely kept the american people safe. the question now is what comes next. the rise of the taliban will be a magnet for some. >> reporter: and there are other growing threats. russia's aggression, china's militarism, north korea's nuclear weapons, cyber attacks. >> we are living at perhaps a time when we are facing more threats in the world than since the end of world war ii. >> reporter: and then there are the americans still trapped in afghanistan, still with no clear path to escape lester >> andrea mitchell, thanks in just 6...