. >>> joining me now, matt rosenberg who covers national security who wasco expelled fro afghanistan in 2014 not when the taliban was in charge of the place. matt, what's your sense of what is happening right now? >> you can see from the pictures the country hasro fall tony the taliban. i am looking at pictures out of kabul stunned. i am hearing a lot from various politicians. the congressman you just had on saying he drank the cool aid sums it up just about right. for years now -- i spent six years in and out ofpe that country,ut for years, every bitf available evidence showed what the u.s. government was doing was not working that what we had built was run by former war lords, by corrupt politicians. the corruption went from the uniformed police officers on th street who were seen by most afghans as little better than thieve asks drugbe dealers all e way to the top of the government. these filled our newspapers and our television reports.ed for the u.s. government now to say we are so surprised is just -- i don't know where to start withst that. but it's clear there was no real func