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Any shelling, any attacks from the russians at all? >> reporter: yeah no. there's nothing and no russian forces here anymore. i have to say, you really hit the nail on the head there, john. it is remarkable because just a couple of days ago we were hunkered down in kyiv and hearing the shelling and seeing rockets flying and seeing large plumes of smoke just outside the capitol in bucha, seeing it in irpin, for instance, but also around this area as well. then you had a sort of big bang before the russians left, where they seemed to be firing all the artillery shells that they had left maybe to...

Intelligence as possible. what we found out was that the russians were not far away. this is an area where there's been a fair amount of outgoing as well as in coming artillery. down the road is a town that has been fought over for several days by russian and ukrainian forces. in these vast open spaces the russians seem far away. they're not. down here, john. down here. keep on rolling. you see it over there? we hug the earth. two more artillery rounds. camera man john keeps rolling.

People see themselves as warriors. it's the trump plan to take back the country, and they're doing it board by board, town by town, and schools are always of interest to authoritarians because they're forming the minds of the next generation. as for their methods, democracy is about compromise and consensus politics, but these people have learned also from trump that if somebody doesn't agree with you, you threaten them into silence or you lock them up or beat them up. it just shows how much democracy and civil society has eroded in this country after four years of trump. >> yeah, i have to sa...

Is actually happening and that the afghan taliban just was kind of laying in wait and watching all of this take place. eric: wasn't it -- [inaudible conversations] eric: was that their strategy? get a peace deal, talk, talk, talk and then, you know, as you say, lay in wait for the data they knew they would come in and take over? >> and if that's the case, and i think there is a strong empirical case, they start ised on the outskirts, they moved inward, they went province by province, city the with by city, town by town with uneven airstrikes as we were leaving, it suggests to me that this is n...

How do things look on your end? -perfect! because we're building a better network every single day. for americans, afghanistan has been this nation's longest war but with that war coming to an end, the taliban is quickly rampaging through afghanistan, town by town. nine provincial capitals have been overrun just since friday. now, a senior administration official familiar with the u.s. intelligence assessment warns that afghanistan's capital city, kabul, could be isolated by the taliban in as soon as a month. that's where our chief international correspondent, clarissa ward joins me, tonight...