the taliban are at the gates of the city. president ashcroft ghani had vowed to defend cobble to the very end. we started the morning, not thinking that this is going to be the last day in cobble palms. alamo him is national security adviser, one of us, rav connie's closest confidence. he has bad news for the president. the afghan army has told him they cannot defend cobble. i had this heart to heart discussion with the military leaders. it was clear they didn't believe that was possible. the president in no, that's what his military leaders were thinking. the problem was nobody wanted to sound weak because if any military leader was heard to say or any political leader was heard to say that this was not doable, it would immediately collapse. but there is one final plan to avoid chaos and bloodshed. now they're not every one of the afghan government's top negotiators is scheduled to meet the taliban in doha. i was booked on a flight on sunday morning on the 15th. ah, to to go to doha. thanks. looked very normal. an officer opened the gates and he was tired. he could see in his eyes t

suitcases stuff with cash ortiz, ritual blevins as the story one year later, a former president, ashcroft ghani, is still defending his role in the swift fall of the afghan government days after the withdrawal of the u. s. military. he claims he was not afraid of the taliban, even as he made the decision to flee the country. the reason i left was because i did not want to give the taliban and their supporters, the pleasure of yet again, humiliating and afghan president and making him sign over the legitimacy of the government. i have never been afraid. while he claims there was no fear of the taliban, the former president did express concern over the people who are supposed to be on his side and whether they would turn on him once the constant support they relied on from the u. s. came to an end, but other than the strategy of saving himself, it doesn't appear that connie had much of a planet all for a wife without us occupation. it also doesn't appear that the biden administration cared in their final phone call just 3 weeks before the fall of the afghan government bite and emphasized the need

in the end. ashcroft ghani, seen here on the left, was declared president. but the taliban of tax continued to stabilize the government. and the group started taking territory by the end of the decade. a controlled much of the country in 2020 u. s. president donald trump fulfilled a campaign promise to pull us troops out of afghanistan. a deal was made, but trumps advisors convinced him to keep a small force in place. when joe biden took office and 2021, he finished what trump started announcing a complete withdrawal afghan security forces collapsed as the taliban stepped up its attacks and rapidly took more territory. on august 15th, the group finalized its takeover by capturing the capital cobble scenes of panic and chaos, played out as people massed at the airport. desperate to flee. some made it out. many did not know the us led occupation and the experiment in democracy was over. and the taliban after 20 years was back in control for ever since coming back into control and taliban of presided over an economy and freefall, international 8 was caught, the