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Are in taliban control and only one major city is not and that major city is kabul. joining me from there because you are going to find this man in a place where everybody else has left in many cases is my colleague richard engel. he is there now. richard, it is a confusing story from there. we have conflicting information where the taliban is, who is negotiating and where the president of afghanistan is and where control lies. tell us what you see. >> well, after 20 years of u.s. military presence here, after america's longest war the united states is leaving, the u.s. is evacuating personnel...

To get in there. let's reset. it is sunday, august 15th.h. i'm ali velshi. as you can see, we are following breaking news out of afghanistan where the taliban is on the brink of taking over the entire country. the group is closing in on the capital city of kabul. thisf map just in the last six hours is out of date. the dark orange areas are areas now controlled by taliban.ll they are closing in on the last major city they do not control, that is kabul. after capturing a series of cities all over the country amid the u.s. withdrawal of troops. let's look live at kabul right now. minutes ago w...

0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, it's important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. >> yeah. >> the current plach is according to defense officials is to continue to flow those people in. but this is all happe...

0 latest on the situation. thank you. the fall of kabul appears to be imminent is the headline. >> we're sure courtney will be with us throughout the day, as well as our steam of correspondents to follow the latest. thanks for watching msnbc reports, "velshi" starts right now. i'm ali velshi, we're departing from our normal format for the news out of afghanistan where the taliban is closing in on kabul. the biggest city in the country. it does appear to be surrounded. this map is the latest we have, but it is not fully updated because this shows mazar-i-sharif under government control and it...

Activating their forces. the americans trained 350,000 people to fight the taliban. so, you would hope you would be seeing more success than you're seeing right now. let me give you a picture of it all right. this is kabul, the capitol right here. this is all afghanistan. the orange area is stuff that's taliban controlled. the beige is contested. the white is government. so you can see there's very little government control. now on this side, this is all iran over here. this is all the former soviet central asian republics over here and this is pakistan over here and in this little mountainous...