sana, clarissa, you will both have what have working sana, clarissa, you will both have what he clallsps with the taliban. clarissa, help me understand how you engage with them. we've been engaging with them for a couple of years now. i did a story in the north of the country in january of 2019, which entailed spending time in their territory, getting permission from them, and one thing i will give the taliban credit for, which i think saad touches on there, is there was a process. you did have protection from the taliban and you could be reasonably secure knowing that you weren't at risk of being kidnapped on a trip, and you would be given access to what you had been promised. so, there was a mechanism for dealing with them, and from what we're seeing on the ground now, that mechanism still exists. there is a department that you go to, there's paperwork that's signed off on. the problem becomes now particularly that you're dealing with the rank and file on the street are not necessarily the same as of the dealing of the upper echelons of the taliban. it can be difficult to persuade th

clarissa, do you agree with that critique?ally important points, and i know from my personal experience covering the story that it felt like everything i would say when i was reporting was then kind of shoehorned into someone�*s political narrative or appropriated by one side or the other. it was like clarissa ward is a warmonger, or whatever, and none of it had any bearing on reality. all of it, frankly, was a distraction from the real story in my mind, which is what the afghan people were going through, and what they were experiencing and what america's role is and what america's responsibly was in that. so it is frustrating as a journalist when you see both sides politically trying to weaponize these issues that ultimately subvert attention from the real focus. but isn't it notjust about politics about both sides and decisions taken by editors that think it's easier to make content that's popular if it's seen through domestic politics, rather through experiences of afghans? i think it depends where you work. obviously, if y

clarissa, do you agree with that critique? l clarissa, do you agree with that critique?he other. it was like clarissa ward is a warmonger, or whatever, and none of it had any bearing on reality. all of it, frankly, was a distraction from the real story in my mind, which is what the afghan people were going through and what they were experiencing and what america's role is and what america's role is and what america's responsibly was in that. so it is frustrating as a journalist when you see both sides politically trying to weaponize these issues that ultimately subvert attention from the real focus of. but it isn't not _ from the real focus of. but it isn't not just _ from the real focus of. but it isn't notjust about - from the real focus of. but it isn't notjust about politics i isn't notjust about politics about both sides but decisions taken by editors that think it's easier to make content that's popular if it's seen through domestic politics, rather through experiences of afghans? l rather through experiences of aft hans? ., rather through experiences of aft hans?

cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward live in kabul. if you can hear me, we've been having issues with your signal. hopefully it'll stay up. give us a sense of what you're seeing on the ground now. >> reporter: hi, john. yeah, apology for those technical difficulties. basically, it looks different from when we were last here. the taliban has a much lighter footprint. we're seeing far fewer taliban fighters out on the ground. the ones that we do see tend to be manning checkpoints. now, many of them are wearing uniforms. a lot of those, john, u.s. issued uniforms. the purpose of that is to try to look professional but also to try to avoid situations where isis fighters could potentially infiltrate and pretend to be the taliban. the taliban definitely wants to show the world they've adapted a -- things are a little bit -- there's a lot of -- you don't see them on every street corner. >> you know what, we're going to pause as we try to clean up the signal with clarissa and listen as we do to some of the sound c she has gathered this morning

ros: in 2019, clarissa ward reported on taliban fighters as they took on the afghan military.ience dealing with a group. clarissa: there was a process and when you did have a guarantee of protection from the taliban, you could be reasonably secure knowing that you weren't at risk at least of being kidnapped on the trip, and that you would be given access to what y had been promised. so, there was a mechanism for dealing with them. and from what we are seeing on the ground now, that mechanism still exists. there is a department you go to come up t -- you go to, paperwork that you sign. the problem is now that your dealings with the rank-and-file on the street are not necessarily the same as your dealings with the upper edge along of the top -- up or at salon -- upper echelon of the taliban. you have to go into it with your eyes open and you have to know the way i am treated is not the way another local journalists will be treated. so, when you are looking at the professionalism or savvy of the taliban, you have to understand it in its context, that it is largely transactional f

clarissa ward is live on the ground in kabul.the finger pointing from the pentagon to the state department? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. because the reason that had been given by the white house as to why they didn't start those evacuations earlier was that the government of the former president ashraf ghani had repeatedly begged the u.s. not to start evacuations too early because there was a real concern that would look back, it would impact morale, that it would seem the taliban was already winning. you have to remember, ashraf ghani, one week before the fall of kabul, was talking about hydrodam projects. u.s. officials had been talking for a long time whether or not he was fit competent. there were serious doubts about his ability to lead the country through this turbulent time. one does ask the question that given the fact that the taliban was moving so quickly in its offensive and given the fact that it was very clear that the government of ashraf ghani was unable to adequately respond to the situation should then a

clarissa, i'll start with you.gs afghans were asking, ahead of the rounds of hearing, why wasn't there more of a plan to get people out? why were so many people left behind? do you think they got an answer from top military officials on this? >> reporter: i think the military leaders were actually pretty candid about some of the failing or some of the underestimations, particularly with regards to the collapse of afghan forces, talking about how the doha agreements which was essentially the deal brokered by the trump administration to begin the u.s. withdrawal, how that really negatively impacted morale on the ground here in afghanistan with those afghan forces, also talking about intelligence failures but also pointing to the fact that u.s. military advisers had not been iembedded with the afghan army for three years. general milley had a very striking line, i'm paraphrasing here, you can count the number of weapons you have, you can count the number of soldiers and have all this information, but you can't see int

and so, that was going right to the heart of it. >> back to clarissa's question that she said earlier, i heard her earlier this morning what she would ask the generals, which was, what went wrong? why didn't you see this coming? and so let me play for you what general milley said, colonel, about the 11-day collapse. >> we absolutely missed the rapid 11-day collapse of the afghan military and the collapse of their government. i think there was a lot of intelligence that clearly indicated that after we withdrew, that it was a likely outcome of a collapse of the military and collapse of the government. most of those intelligence assessments indicated that that would occur late fall, perhaps early winter, while we were there, though, up through 31 august, there's no intel assessment that says the government's going to collapse and the military's going to collapse in 11 days that i'm aware of. >> colonel, what are we to take away from that? what's the lesson there? >> the way general milley characterized it, alisyn, is that this is an intelligence failure, so you can look at it in several

clarissa, i want to begin with you.moments from tuesday's testimony and today, you have the president's senior most military leader, the chairman of the joint chiefs, calling the withdrawal from afghanistan a strategic fail your, whereas the president and his advisers have talked about the extraordinary success. really they're focusing on the evacuation there when they say it. you have a senior military leader saying, listen, this withdrawal is a fail your. i'm wondering what you see on the ground there. is that how afghans see it? >> reporter: it's interesting, jim. it doesn't matter who you talk to, whether it's people who support the taliban and were delighted to see the back of the u.s., or whether it's people who actually felt the u.s. presence made dramatic improvements to their quality of life. both sides of this divide tend to see the u.s.'s withdrawal. i'm not talking about the evacuation. i'm talking about the broader withdrawal, the last couple years and the doha agreement specifically as a strategic fail you

cnn's la clarissa ward is live kabul. c clarissa, what have you been seeing?> reporter: we have been talking about the social crisis here in regards to women who feel and see their rights being sub you gated in realtime and a return to medieval justice with some of those these horrendous sights, bodies being hung as a warning to anyone telling them not to commit crimes. but the other real crisis facing afghans right now, brianna, is an economic crisis. and make no mistake about it. this country is on the precipice of a massive and severe economic recession fpt we're not just talking about purse strings being tightened. we are talking about starvation and hunger. what's happened is there is a total liquidity crisis. there is no cash coming in to afghanistan. the central bank has been effectively frozen. people can only take out about 200 u.s. dollars a week. there are long, long lines outside every bank inside the city. in this market where we are, we have been talking to people who are all complaining about the prices. 30% rise we're hearing in food prices. 40

joining us now, to discuss, chief political correspondent dana bash and clarissa ward live from kabul and with us brigadier general mark himet. >> dana, why don't we begin with you on the question of china here. there is a legitimate question as to what exactly former president trump was planning or considering during the final days of his presidency here. i know the focus has been on general milley perhaps planning to defy an order from the president for military action that he did not want to carry out. but there was a separate question here knowing what the president seemed to be willing to do to overturn an election, was he willing to start a crisis to somehow stay in office? >> could be, and it is going to be the first time that anybody had been able to ask general milley that very question. and others. the bulk of this hearing is going to be on the 20-year war that ended in afghanistan. but i have been in touch with some sources, some committee sources, and one said to me the following on china, most wars start by accident, miscalculation or misunderstanding, preventing that is

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cnn's clarissa ward is live in kabul. general milley stood by his prediction that al qaeda and/or isis would reconstitute themselves in afghanistan within the next 6 to 36 months. give us a reality check. >> i have to say that was pretty sobering to hear, jake, because most analysts have put the sort of timeline somewhere closer to about five years. listen, we know al qaeda is present on the ground. we know isis-k has a presence on the ground. we were able to meet with a senior isis-k commander here in kabul at a hotel just days before the taliban took power. so we know they have a presence. when we interviewed that commander, he did not show any interest at the moment in transnational attacks. but, of course, the real concern is that can change very quickly, particularly once the taliban is not the primary enemy anymore. they might start looking outward, and the concern, of course, as well, is with the over the horizon capabilities. it makes it much more difficult to track their activities. as we saw with that drone stri

so clarissa, just give us the big picture. since you were last there? >> i think there's no question, alisyn, it does feel different on the ground. it's less fraud, it'sl less chaotic, less kinetic of violent activity but there is tension under pinning it all. a lot of people in kabul believe this is a lull, a transitional period where the taliban wants to show the international community it can be more pragmatic, it's keen to be integrated and accepted by the international community, and it's desperate to make sure that funding and aid that has been frozen by the world bank, by the imf, by the u.s. is unfrozen because this country is also dealing with a major liquidity crisis. a huge economic bomb shell, poised to explode here, alisyn, with teachers' salaries not getting paid. health care salaries not getting paid. food prices rising. fuel prices rising, and people waiting in line for often six hours to try to take out their weekly $200 from the bank. so there is a serious economic crisis, and then more than that, there is de

reportera: decidida a aumentarse los glÚteos, clarissa se sometiÓ a un procedimiento clandestino en unatodo las personas que no estÁn preparadas para esto, si esto sucede, pueden provocar complicaciones como embolismo. reportera: ambas fueron arrestadas y se sospecha que realizaron ese procedimiento durante aÑos. >> mezclaban la silicona con otros productos quÍmicos que no son apropiados para ningÚn procedimiento mÉdico en seres humanos. reportera: de acuerdo con la policÍa, la vÍctima tuvo complicaciones y las sospechosas huyeron de la escena. quien aspiraba convertirse en actriz para pelÍcula para adultos falleciÓ en un hospital. una vendedora de fajas dice que el aumento de glÚteos es una tendencia que ha aumentado en popularidad. >> tenemos clientas que ha venido que se les ha abierto la operaciÓn, que no les ha cerrado bien lo de las pompis. a veces se basen en el paÍs y a veces se lo hacen fuera del paÍs y hay mÁs complicaciones. reportera: reclutaban a las pacientes en instagram y podrÍa haber muchas mÁs vÍctimas. patricia: con la salud no se juega. california se convirtiÓ hoy en

clarissa, great to see you. the world was gripped by your coverage from afghanistan.t like on the ground. what was the desperation like in the air? >> it was horrifying. it was just a crush of humanity, pushing, shoving, biting, screaming, shouting, anything they can do to try to get in the airport, try to get their children into the airport. when we were able to get in, we were surrounded by babies. >> we watched some of the videos from back here in the u.s. and awesome of the kids being passed over. and there is always the stories of humanity. what did you see on the ground of people who were trying to help others? >> the situation around the airport was chaotic, i was dangerous and we have seen it again and again, alisyn. they don't appear on the evening news, and they want to remain anonymous. but i saw networks emerging of former soldiers and civilians on the ground, afghan women helping others that were still stuck inside the country, trying to coordinate and help people on the ground with information about how they could get out with no real incentive for thems

let's start with cnn's clarissa ward live in kabul. how does what you heard from american military leaders today square with what you witnessed during the withdrawal on the ground in afghanistan? >> well, i think there was a lot of candor that we heard today, jake. i was struck by general milley's description of it as a logistical success, but a strategic failure. we saw the success on the ground. we saw the enormity, the scale of this airlift. the largest in u.s. history. we saw the fact the u.s. went from fighting the taliban to cooperating with them in a matter of hours. it wasn't a perfect agreement, but the taliban were there kind of holding the front line, the perimeter of the airport trying to keep the crowds back. we also heard a concession that at certain stages, they were overwhelmed by the scale, particularly in smrth basis outside of afghanistan. we saw the knock-on effect of that firsthand. planes stopped for more than eight hours carrying evacuees out on u.s. planes. and that, of course, meant there was a backlog. chaotic

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you had cnn's clayly say ward -- clarissa ward, richard engle.chaos, was disaster, was absolute insan sigh, especially when they report r&d that state department and military officials kept americans from getting through the checkpoints and getting on airplanes to get them the heck out of afghanistan when they really wanted to be. howie: i praised them as well, including fox's jennifer griffin. always good to see you, governor mike huckabee. thanks for coming by. >> you bet. howie: still to come, why mike richards can no longer produce jeopardy, al roker and he'd asner, that's coming up on the buzz meter (vo) unconventional thinking means we see things differently, so you can focus on what matters most. that's how we've become the leader in 5g. #1 in customer satisfaction. and a partner who includes 5g in every plan, so you get it all. a lot of snacks are packed with air but not planters nuts. our dry roasted peanuts have an incredible ratio of size to substance a delicious, salty, crunchy ratio. planters. a nut above. howie: see if i can beat th

you know, clarissa, you're there in kabul for us. the joint chiefs chairman says the enemy is in charge in kabul right now. you're there on the ground. is he right? what does he mean for afghan -- what does that mean for afghans? >> well, wolf, you know the old adage, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. i do think it's really important to be transparent about the fact there are large parts of afghanistan who are delighted that the u.s. has left, who are delighted that the taliban is in charge, who are happy to see an end to drone strikes and air strikes and it is important to note as well that security situation is better now, right? there isn't as much fighting. but for countless other afghans, particularly those living in cities, particularly for women, there are huge concerns. and honestly, desperate panic, as they stare down the barrel at an uncertain future. the taliban is treating this as a transitional period. they're trying to adapt a more pragmatic tone, in large because they they seek recognition from the

clarissa, the president, he was clearly on the world stage as well earlier today at the united nations promising this new era of american diplomacy, but do his words ring hollow right now, at least with some key u.s. allies? >> reporter: i think it's definitely fair to say that this narrative that the president is trying to project, that america is back, that liberal democracies will prevail, that we're entering an era of global unity, that's a lot more challenging for president biden to present right now than it was at the g-7, for example. and a big part of that is because while he's standing there and trumpeting the same power of democracies, it's set against the backdrop of the u.s. departure from afghanistan which, of course, precipitated the taliban sweeping to power and now you're talking about a lot of the democratic gains that were made in afghanistan over the last two decades being erased and beyond that you're also talking about quite a few u.s. allies who felt sort of blind-sided by the way in which this withdrawal was carried out, and, of course, you're now seeing even mor

if you'll be transplanted, clarissa foby is now combined with the green climb and ideology that completely forget that we will have to deal with these natural resources for many, many, many years. considering that we're not going to give up natural gas anytime soon. i think diversification through modern pipelines remains a logical and not only economically viable option. the german government continue to say that nor stream to not only essential to germany's energy needs, but also those of the white european union. they also stress that the current increase in energy prices is down to multiple factors. attendance of food coating taller information should complies with exists in supply agreements, price bargain associated with manufacturers. a tough winter market changes and increased demand for gas. underneath this whole is utilized a very simple state of affairs, europe needs, gas, russia has gas, and very soon a new pipeline will be open running capable of transporting more of one to the other. while moscow maintains that this is purely a business venture, others will continue to sugges

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and we just had our chief international correspondent clarissa ward live for us from kabul.nd we asked her, you know, what kind of question would you want to ask of general mark milley and so i'm just curious, are you curious, are you going to ask anything like what she suggested, which was why wasn't there more preparation in place to make a less chaotic withdraw? she said knowing the u.s. had to get out of afghanistan, that's not really in the question, why wasn't there more preparation in place? >> well, absolutely. i heard that interview and i think that's a great question. and certainly is going to be one of my questions, although i suspect it is going to be asked by practically everybody. there are a whole series of questions, but what is really important about this hearing is that this is the first time the public will have a chance to hear from these officials about why they left bagram, why august 31st, was there adequate preparation, what was the intelligence on the likelihood of the fall of the afghan government, all of those questions. i should mention we have ha

cnn's clarissa ward, i think did a phenomenal job talked about a family from texas all with u.s. passports who were also unable to escape. a three year old american boy from sack meant offensive line california couldn't also get out, also trapped tonight. and last night, an interview with an american woman named sarah, who is also desperate to get out herself. you know what? you don't think this could have gone any better, joe? you don't think that doing this in may, june, july? we show you the map every night. we give you the dates and the time and the quick geographical possession of the taliban. you knew they were on the march. now the intel community is releasing information because they're not going to take blame for your mistake. you really think anyone's going to buy your lies from today? do you think we're that dumb? are you that dumb? this evacuation could not have been any worse, and it's going to get worse. but, get this. according to joe, we're all just overreacting. americans behind enemy lines, we left them behind, something i never thought i'd see in my lifetime, a

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