between the, the us and thought of on presidential when he also met the the us forces commander john scott miller today to discussed all the support and how to add one security forces in the future. i bye, thanks very much. indeed. that's our boss and was talking to us from a capital. well, let's take a closer look at the history of background, the air base. it was built for the former soviet union in the 1950s, which turned it into its main base during its invasion of afghanistan in 1979 in late 2001. the us took it over and use it as a center of operations to remove the taliban. and i'll have to after the 911 attacks at its peak more than 100000 us troops, a pass through by graham air base. it has to run ways parking space for more than 100 aircraft hospital and a prison which has been run by african forces since 2013. the us military says $763.00 fully loaded c, 17 aircraft of left afghanistan. and it's scrapped around 15000 pieces of equipment or so from a catch the director at the center for conflict in your material studies at the doha institute for graduate studies. and he's joining us now

john: top u.s. general stepping down to the day. austin scott miller marking a symbolic end of u.s. military involvement there with the central base for u.s. forces in a virtually empty. reaction from nikki haley coming up. we begin with greg palkot who is live in afghanistan with more. the taliban seems to take control of that country almost by the hour. >> absolutely. a little bit of history to a day, but as you know, troubled times here in this country. it's called a change of command ceremony, i'll go on command scott miller had to get off end of central command who has been running things overall with the headquarters, but it was more than a change of command. take a look. >> this was just a few moments ago, the symbolic and to america's war in afghanistan. for the afghan politicians and others behind us, there are questions about what is ahead. >> i tell the taliban that they are responsible to the violence that's going on against the will of the people and it needs to stop. >> they are now taking over a third of the country. the afghan military often not up to the task of fle