we have experts like general mccaffrey who guides us through all this as well. what are we not hearing? what is sort of the buttoned up and more opaque view from inside active duty military and pentagon leadership about the events of the last 72 hours? >> there is a level of depression, i think. there's two things. the military people that we cover, the active duty troops, the officials are very good at compartmentalizing. at the building, at the pentagon, everything is about evacuating this horrible situation going on at hkia, hamid scar die international airport in kabul. there's a lot of focus on getting the mission, not just the americans out but as general mccaffrey mentioned, the afghan interpreters and translaters who worked for not just the american military and the state department but for american institutions, as well in afghanistan and getting these people out because the people in the military have strong relationships with all of these people, but on the other hand, beyond the let's get these people out is there is a lot of, it's a level of despair

and as general mccaffrey was saying, as the u.s. taliban. just a few weeks ago the u.s. was bombing the taliban. now they have become security partners. that is not unprecedented in war where an old enemy becomes a foe. this has happened extremely quickly and it has happened with a foe that is very, very ideologically diverse, a foe that claims to be different, a foe that now says it wants to open a new chapter of relations with the united states, an enemy that still denies that osama bin laden was responsible for 9/11, but now an enemy that at least in the short term is cooperating closely with the united states through, as general mccaffrey just said, i'm sure a very, very taxed, very stressed out delta force general who has probably the most complicated job in the world being that liaison. >> indeed. no doubt about that. richard, a time check for you and our viewers watching here domestically. we have about two-and-a-half minutes before we hear from the president. what is your basic primer curious to what isis-k is, starting with

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what else could this white house and this president have done, general mccaffrey? >> nothing.0 years. and had we said it was an open-ended commitment to the afghan people, i think the war would have dribbled down dramatically over time. politically that wasn't viable for the president of the united states, and so, again, i'm not holding him responsible for this, but the minute you took out the u.s. special ops intelligence community, u.s. air power and presence on the ground, it was end game obviously. i might add a corrupt and incompetent government on top of that, a government that tried to build a federal national police and a federal national army in a balkanized society where people fight for their tribe and their home, not for a distant government. i don't think we have any options at all. girls and women are now at great risk. millions will flee into adjoining countries. the taliban don't give a wit about our recognition. there will be no u.s. aid to the taliban. they're counting on being supported by pakistan, china and russia to some extent, and the iranians will inte

army general barry mccaffrey. a decorated combat veteran of vietnam. former cabinet member, former member of the national security council. good evening and welcome to you all. andrea i would like to begin with you. biden was forceful in defending his decision, was he forceful enough about the debacle portion, that we've watched unfold? >> critics certainly and both parties say not. you're hearing in fact, finally from the chairman tonight, who's been strangely silent as such a key player, he and others, tim kaine, jackie speier, people who have always been very strong defenders of his foreign policy, feeling strongly silent. or critical. saying that they are not at all happy, the way that it took place. in getting afghan colleagues, comrades who have been translators, and drivers, and really on the battlefield with our troops. and had these people with them every day. and we're under fire. and for them to have it so backed up by red, tape despite the fact that congress a month ago, cut that red tape in approve legislation to speed up the special visas

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army general barry mccaffrey decorated former battlefield -- former member of the nationally security council. and irwin redlener founding director of a columbia university's the national -- professor of pediatrics at albert einstein college of medicine. good evening and welcome to you all. general given, i would like to begin with you. 15,000 americans left in afghanistan, what do you make of the presidents comments of staying beyond 31 august if necessary, and i don't mean this in any way but seriously, are we asking the taliban or telling the taliban about getting these people through those court to the airport? >> you went right to the heart of the matter. i was shocked at president biden who has more experience got provoked into that answer. by -- get the americans out. we do not want to be putting down red lines in public. maybe genital chris donahue who is going as direct negotiator to the taliban military talks through these. things it could possibly be that the majority of americans will be out by the 31st of august. it sounds highly unlikely that 18,000 interpreters and 20,0

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joining us now are nbc's mike memoli, msnbc military analyst barry mccaffrey. former advisor to canada and france, ambassador omar. the "new york times" headline is this, "intelligence warned of afghan military collapse despite biden's assurances." even as the president was saying that kabul was unlikely to fall, intelligence was painting a grim picture. >> the pace of warnings over the course of the summer starting in late june through july grew and presented an increasingly dire picture of the state of the afghan military and really the ability of the afghan government to hold on. we know famously that president biden said on july 8th that kabul is unlikely to fall and you're never going to see images of helicopters on the roof of the embassy like you saw at the end of the vietnam war, which of course we saw something very similar. at this time the intelligence is basically showing a picture of an outcome that could be exactly that. as they get through july into august, this was this picture of almost inevitability that the afghan forces were melting away, sw

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barry mccaffrey, decorated combat that veteran of vietnam. former cabinet member and member of the national security council. and dr. nahid bhadelia, an infectious disease physician and the founding director of boston university's center for emerging infectious diseases and policy research. good evening, welcome to you all. general, we'll begin with you with this urgent matter overseas. since you and i spoke at exactly this hour last night, the taliban has made incredible progress overland. i'm tempted to say that if paton's third army had moved this fast after d-day, idai would have come in two weeks, and europe. question to you is, what happens when they take kabul? and what, god forbid, happens if any americans are harmed? >> it could be a very tragic event for afghan people to start with. the consequences of summary execution, women and girls being forced into near slavery conditions, it's a sad event. we are out. we now can easily protect and hold the kabul international airport. we have very strong security around the u.s. embassy. ther

where people don't have masks and the ad vaccination rates are 15 or 25%. >> let's go to general mccaffrey, and general it is with a sense of urgency that i ask you about your life's work and your valley wick. i'm curious, are you surprised about the speed with which the taliban has galloped across large portions of afghanistan. and do you think, really, kabul is threatened with falling sooner, rather than later. >> well, it's shocking. on paper, the afghan security forces, police and army could easily dominate the taliban guerrilla force that has now captured two thirds of afghanistan. it's really astonishing. they are coming apart. they are liquefying. and so i think president biden and secretary austin are taking prudent emergency measures. they are deploying a package of around 8000 troops. one battalions will initially go into kabul international airport, backup rugged 82nd will go into middle areas to stand by. and other troops, air force and army, we'll be processing afghan refugees coming out of the country. simultaneously, the staff at the embassy, which was over 4000 people, will

and barry mccaffrey, commanded forces in latin america and iraq.ourtney, start with situational report if we can. give us a sense how fast things have fallen apart in cities like harat or kandahar, places they don't know about it, but are some of the biggest strategic cities in afghanistan. >> that's right. the four big cities you worry about falling, kandahar, harat, kabul. two of those have fallen. one is under serious threat and the taliban are on the doorstep of the fourth. the situation deteriorated. what's critical for viewers to understand is how fast it has happened. you put up the map for what the taliban controlled in april. what they controlled a month ago or a week ago versus today is astonishing. they have been able with speed to isolate kabul from all sides, and from a military perspective, they've handled it masterfully. they cut off the north, historic of northern alliance fighters of afghanistan, cut it off, taken border crossings, they have been able to stop flow or control flow in and out of the country. then also as they move th

army general barry mccaffrey, decorated veteran of vietnam. former cabinet member, former member of the national security council, and the founding director of columbia university's national center for disaster prepareness. he advises us on public else. also a professor of pediatrics at the albert einstein college of medicine. given the topic at hand, i would like the begin. but 15,000 americans left in afghanistan. what do you make. president's comments of staying beyond 31 august, if necessary. and i don't mean this any way but seriously, are we asking the taliban or telling the taliban about getting the people through the cordons to the airport? >> you went right to the heart of the matter. i was shocked at president biden. i've had more experience. i got provoked into that answer about staying beyond 31 august, if we have to get the americans out. we do not want to be putting down red lines in public. chris donahue who is now going in as a direct negotiator to the taliban military get through these things. it could possibly be that the maj

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general mccaffrey, let's talk about the criticism, though, because i don't think that they can really wait for those after-action reports. there are going to be hearings as early as this week and a classified briefing for house members tonight. yesterday on "meet the press," we heard from congresswoman liz cheney about what could happen next on the terror front. >> look, the biden decision to completely withdraw has handed them an entire country, has in fact ensured not just the taliban, but al qaeda, isis, the network, terrorist organizations that want to attack the united states now have an entire country as a sanctuary from which to do so. >> so, general, this is the central mission, initially, after 9/11 to go in and make sure that afghanistan could never become a haven for terrorists. the white house has been saying how al qaeda has been designated, but there are links to al qaeda throughout afghanistan, we're told, and they claim they can do this from over the horizon, but without the drone coverage from baram and other ground troops there, as well as the military contractors an

army general barry mccaffrey. he also served under the national security council and now an msnbc analyst. courtney kube will join us as she's able to get in front of a camera. general, if i may, i'd like to start with you on this. first, just your thoughts, your reaction to what we heard today about what happened to our service members and also about how this mission will continue under a continuing threat from potentially isis-k in afghanistan? >> it's a lot of loss of servicemen and women on the ground. 12 killed in action. i guess as many as another 13 wounded. there are potential outcomes as we draw down and extract our forces by tuesday at midnight. this is dangerous work. as general mckenzie says, there are no two ways about it. these are 20-year-old marines. physically having to people at the entrance point. so continuing the evacuation is something that president has to decide whether or not he's going to shut that off now or in two days. the americans are not supposed to be going to the airport. sensitiv

army general barry mccaffrey, former battlefield commander in the gulf, former cabinet member, former member of the national skounz. and former senior policy aid during the obama administration, she is one of our public health experts and a nonresident fellow at brookings. good evening, and welcome to you all. general, given the urgency of the topic, i would like to begin with you again tonight. gutsy call by the ceo to show that we could still pull off an extraction in the dense population, the urban confines, inside kabul. do you expect many more of these, probably we can't expect the kind of thunder runs that became so familiar in the iraq war, but was this a healthy reminder perhaps to the taliban that we still have this kind of air capability? >> well, look, brian, the good news is, we saw that we have control of the airport now. there are 6,000 troops on the ground. elite infantry, back off the care yes battle group. the u.s. air force has a worldwide surge of their air lift going in. and i noticed that general dempsey just tweeted out a comment that one of his c-17s took off wi

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richard engel, courtney kube, peter alexander, and general mccaffrey. as the chaotic situation in afghanistan deteriorates, big questions of how and where the system failed and where the u.s. got caught off guard about the country's rapid collapse to taliban rule. this as we're seeing images of people desperate to leave the country, climbing onto planes like this one in the hopes of getting on board. joining me is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," who is the first american journalist in american after 9/11, and john brannen, former director of the cia and obama administration. director brannen, was there an intelligence failure here, military intelligence? does it appear that the biden administration was caught off guard? were they listening and was the president determined to follow his game plan of withdrawing? >> well, they clearly were caught off guard by the events over the last 72 hours and the resurgence of u.s. military forces into the airport to secure the evacuation of our military and civilian personnel. t

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to be something everybody understood was going to take place. >> all right, peter baker, general mccaffrey, thank you both so much for your time. we appreciate it. >>> we want to get to breaking news out of haiti. officials saying within the last hour that the death toll from that massive earthquake has climbed to more than 700 people. rescuers right now are digging for survivors. many people became lost in the rubble that you see on your screen there, when that earthquake hit yesterday. and then overnight, the island was hit with a really strong aftershock. okay, here's another. a tropical storm is now bearing down on the nation that's still stunned by the assassination of its president. nbc's vaughn hillyard joins us from miami. what are you hearing about the conditions of haiti, the death toll this morning was around 300, now 700. >> exactly. we knew last night that that death toll was only going to increase here. you're talking about one of the poorest nations on earth here, with hardly any electricity. only increasing the toughness in which this search and rescue effort is under way h

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the white house over the years, saying, > gee, we're doing well, go back and look at what general mccaffreyretired at that point and went and did an assessment. he said it was all a sham in terms of the support that the afghan government had because of corruption and other activities, and there was no real military fighting force on the part of the afghan army and police. and he said that back in 2006. presciently, he said if there is hope of training others this country to be able to sustain itself, it will take at least until 2020, and that was said in 2006, so i think congress is going to go back and look at the intel that was communicated to those in decision-making positions to say what was the basis of your optimism? why didn't you tell us what was going on that others could see that you failed to see? >> william cohen, appreciate your time and expertise. thank you very much. >>> still to come a truly devastating story of a father whom authorities say murdered his two children, and the reason, he cited qanon theories about why he did it. he believed they were going to become lizard pe

let's bring in our own nbc monica alba at the white house and retired 4 star army general barry mccaffrey. 9,000 people evacuated is a great accomplishment. i'm glad they are somewhere safe. but we know it is not moving as quickly as it could be. why not? >> because of the challenges that richard illuminated just now. the scene inside the airport, the administration will tell you they feel pretty good about, they feel that the situation is far more under control of course than it was a couple of days ago. but circumstances outside the airport they continue to say are beyond their control. and that is what is presenting to be so difficult for those who want to get through these taliban checkpoints and that we're hearing reports of are simply not able to do so. and the united states has basically told anybody who wants to get on these flight, you are solely responsible for getting yourself to the airport and then we'll help you get on the plane. so obviously still a major logistical logjam there, one we expect president biden to address later this afternoon when he is going to speak on the

army general barry mccaffrey and nbc news pentagon correspondent is going to join us in that briefing and still with us kevin baron and peter baker. kevin, let me start with you. a lot of important messagesing coming out of that briefing. we'll start with what we know about intelligence and why that's so important, that admission, if you would like from general milley saying that there were three scenarios that could have played out. the taliban taking control in a matter of weeks, months, years, a settlement negotiated between the taliban and the afghan government, and the afghan government pushing back and fighting against the taliban leading to civil war. what he said, nothing that he saw suggested the collapse of the military within 11 days, and that raises the question that i think a lot of people have been asking is this at its core an intelligence failure? >>ia. i think general milley there was providing a very interesting answer because first of all he did say this a collapse of the government was envisioned, even a rapid collapse. he simply said it wasn't envisioned to be 11

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