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Mad scramble there at that center. people were even coming up to him and begging for help, begging to get out of the country. at this point, if you are an afghan resident and you don't have a special bracelet or some kind of special immigrant visa, are you able to get out at this point? >> no, it is a dire situation. it's a situation that's been dire for the past couple weeks and it's really gotten into this critical mass period right now. the best case scenario for some of these individuals is to try to get out of the country on their own and then work on their visa process. but that is not -...

Assessment i've ever heard on afghanistan. and yet the state department, secretary blinken, the politicos in the white house want to paint this rosie picture that somehow these peace talks in doha were going to deliver a rabbit out of the hat at the 11th hour. guess what? that didn't happen. now they're sending 5,000 troops in to try to save our embassy personnel. they are destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process has stopped. now, you know, president biden said in july this is not going to be a saigon. it's not like south vietnam. guess what? when i talked to ambassador cro...

President biden really believed it, why did he tell everyone that that this was never going to happen? the very thing you are watching today he said was never going to happen. so either they were delusional, or they were not listening to their intelligence people, or they wanted us to believe something else. now, they try to assuage the concerns by saying, well, polls show that americans wanted out of afghanistan. that's right, they did. but did they ask the second question, did they want to see america in this position? did they want to see a chaotic departure? if did they want to see all of ...

For months we've been warning -- ambassador crocker and i wrote an op-ed in the "new york times" about what we need to do now to save the interpreters, what we need to do to have our isr intelligence, surveillance, recognizance capabilities in the region. now we are going dark. they totally blew this one and completely underestimated the strength of the taliban. you know, jake, they didn't listen to the intelligence community, because every time i got an i.c. briefing assessment it was probably the grimmest assessment i've ever heard on afghanistan. and yet the state department, secretary blin...

Street just next to us. they're led by a white flag, and they're chanting as they go down. i don't think from our position, we can't show you that. we're about two or three stories, four stories up. but there they are, right here. hopefully they keep going past this hotel. >> a spokesman for the taliban told nbc news they ordered fighters to enter kabul to prevent looting since police appear to have abandoned their positions. there's been steady helicopter traffic all day over the u.s. embassy with evacuations taking an urgent turn when the taliban surrounded the city. smoke is rising as offic...