we understand between representatives the taliban organization and representatives or spokespeople for the government in cobble the top line on that still moving very fast story about canister is that asked rough connie has left the country reportedly heading for or he is already in to just on presumably we assume in a state of safety, i guess to just on might be a staging post on to another country where he would feel perhaps more buried in will he start describing himself as a president in exile a democratically elected president in exile. maybe we will have to wait and see the thing now that we need to know as well is what happens to all the other members of the government. are they going to take up the talents off of a safe amnesty? and we assume as well, an exit out of the country. more on that for you, just as soon as we can here on the news, our 1345, g. let's move on to the other top story. today. people in haiti scrambling to pull survivors from collapse buildings after a powerful earthquake, it struck about 160 kilometers west of the capital. puerto prince, more than 300 peop

why is the taliban organ agreement after agreement with this president? because there's no leadership in washington dc in the white house right now. they are not running down the white house, they certainly burned it down -- the reputation of this great country with their failure to lead. all of that come up one on joe biden. i yield. rep. mccarthy: the mission will last several days, and will have decades, it has ramifications beyond afghanistan. when china wants taiwan, russia wants the baltics, the impression our allies have. the worst part of what we found is that never in my life day believe in american administration with make a decision to leave americans behind. our government told us a few weeks ago there were 15,000 americans there. today they told us 5400 out. all of us that have -- all of us have had emails, phone calls from americans trying to get out, frustrated at being left there. i wanted turned one of our veterans who served afghanistan, sacrificed a great deal, mr. brian mast --. rep. mast: taliban, al qaeda, isis-k, does not matter wha

. >> reporter: this war started when osama bin laden, the guest of the taliban, organized 9/11 attacks can you guarantee that this country will never again be a base for terrorism? >> translator: when osama bin laden became an issue for the americans, he was in afghanistan, although there was no proof he was involved now we have given promises that afghan soil won't be used against anyone >> reporter: you still don't think that osama bin laden carried out 9/11 >> there is no evidence. even after 20 years of war, we have no proof he was involved. >> reporter: so it sounds like even now after all of this you're accepting no responsibility >> translator: there was no justification for this war it was excuse for war. >> reporter: how are you feeling right now after 20 years and the americans are leaving? >> translator: the withdrawal is almost finished these are our happiest moments. >> richard, did this spokesman talk about what the future relationship could look like between the u.s. and the taliban >> reporter: he did. he said he wants to open a new chapter of relations with the united

taliban will keep their commitments. again, relying on a terrorist organization's word. hoping that the taliban will keep their commitments based on what they need and what we need. the taliban have needs the united states have needs through mutual interests that we'll be able to provide those but if you're isis k, and you find it difficult to attack the united states, they weren't able to do so with a vehicle born ied, which the united states we're told blew up, or with the missile strikes which the united states neutralized, but if isis k were to be able to find out some of these americans who wanted out, and just by the way of example, take them and make them an example to the united states in some way, there's just a lot of peril baked into this and i'm not sure that there won't be any, there won't be much of a u.s. journalist presence in there for sure there will be some in my experience with the our united states public is we now have a big storm here and we have infrastructure times 1,000 and you know, often we look away and you wonder how much safety there will be

but keep in mind the taliban is not a unified organization who in the taliban maybe was working with isis. they aren't the sworn enemies people like to pretend they are. they have the same general objective. i worry it was planned, whether from the top ranks of the taliban or not for them to come through, kill americans and embarrass the u.s. on its way out in retreat. >> you are not exactly a fall in line sort of trump maga person what is your message for fellow republicans? you don't have to travel very far down the cable dial to find out what your colleagues on the hill and their followers are doing. it's clear it's already started >> we have become so tribal in this country that it is impossible to believe that two people can share responsibility if they're from different parties. my message is this donald trump was out publically saying afghanistan wasn't worth it we're leaving as he empowered mike pompeo to work with the taliban. the earth, he said, will outlast america. they created a deal that was the worst deal since chamberlain they never followed through on that deal. and

something the congressman said, talked about designating the taliban a terrorist organization. akes a lot of sense to those who understand the nature of the telegram. but we are hearing reports from some in the state department would like to recognize the taliban as the legitimate government in afghanistan. explained the gulf in this view 20 years after 9/11, once i said they are still terrorists, they would like to kill americans, the one saying accept reality, they are the ones in control and maybe if we bestow legitimacy on them they will behave and we can work with them. >> there will never be a world we can bestow legitimacy on the taliban and. i reject the notion we should mainstream them, as someone who fought against them for 485, safe harbor, and the taliban and killing american troops. they kill american marines and president biden, such an insult that he's trying to mainstream, the taliban sitting around in caves talking about climate change and how to decrease their carbon footprint and make the transfer from a toyota pickup truck to a toyota -- >> and women are goin

he talk about designated the taliban as a terrorist organization. that's one side of the conversation. makes sense with us that understand the nature hoff the taliban. at the same time, we're hearing reports from some in the state department that would like to recognize the taliban as the legitimate government in afghanistan. explain the gulf in this view. 20 years after 9-11. one said says they want to kill americans. the other says accept reality. they're in control. maybe if we bestow legitimacy they'll behave and we can work with them? >> there's never a world that we can trust the taliban. i reject the notion that we could mainstream against them. i fought against them. believe me, they're the enemy. they gave al-quaida safe hey bore where they killed thousands of miles per hours on september 11th for 20 years, the taliban has been killing american troops. the taliban were the ones that released isis from the prison that killed american marines and a navy corpsman yesterday. joe biden believe me -- it's a -- it's such an insult that he's trying

we should declare the taliban a foreign terrorist organization. we should recognize the panzir valley as the capitol of afghanistan and empower or allies on the ground. we should take bagram fair force base and connected to it the panzir valley and let it be an evacuation route for those left behind and we should bleed the taliban dry by allowing afghans who hate these bastards the capability to fight back. if we'll do that, we will be safer. if we abandon afghanistan more, another 9-11 is coming your way. >> sean: senator graham, we're out of time. going to give you the last word, congressman. we'll follow your efforts closely. mr. vice president, i applaud your efforts to free your country and i pray for a better day for every afghani. women will be under tyranny. it will be a mess in all likelihood, many innocent people will die in the days and weeks to come. i pray i'm wrong. after the break, the biden's communications with thele that ban now risking the lives of americans? how many have they exposed with their list that they gave the taliban?

. >> reporter: this war started when osama bin laden, the guest of the taliban, organized 9/11 attacks. can you guarantee that this country will never again be a base for terrorism? >> translator: when osama bin laden became an issue for americans, he was in afghanistan although there was no proof he was involved. now we have given promises that afghan soil won't be used against anyone. >> you still don't think that osama bin laden carried out 9/11? >> there is no evidence. even after 20 years of war we have no proof he was involved. >> reporter: it sounds like even now after all of this you're accepting no responsibility? >> translator: there was no justification for this war. it was excuse for war. >> reporter: how are you feeling right now, after 20 years, the americans are leaving? >> the withdrawal is almost finished. these are our happiest moments. >> reporter: after the interview we made our way to the airport. inside the airport the evacuations are moving along, but the mood is somber. these are afghans who don't take the taliban at their word. escaping while they still can. ge

while all of this is happening the taliban was organizing,, training, pre-positioning equipment and peoplento these districts to expand control. this is a massive intelligence failure, a massive failure in creativity and understanding what the taliban is about by the top level generals and political leaders, our department -- secretaries of states secretaries of defense. they bought into the peace process while the taliban was organizing the military takeover of afghanistan. when i see general miller saying things like " we have to ask ourselves why and how this happened," frankly i am furious! i can answer those questions! i watched this developed over the course of a decade! if i can do this myself, how can the entire u.s. military with billions of dollars at its disposal fail in understanding the nature of the taliban fail in understanding its ideology, fail in understanding its maximalist strategy and objective? this is a failure in leadership of the highest order and on the intelligence side, it is probably the worst in the last 10 years. host: when you said the taliban's rural strate

once a taliban is in control of afghanistan, whether going to do is build not just the old taliban organizationgoing to build a full-fledged to define a state with advanced work and they're going to play with ron and also have those pakistan themselves so they may have other ideas in the head which is to actually have an insight with pakistan with her supporters and people deeper in the institutions to bring pakistan to their influene another other way around this would pakistan need to attention to and one thing is to fuel the afghan taliban for certain geopolitical reasons but then this would turn against them. eric: finally this hear from you your concern about the attack on pakistan at the delavan and the interior taliban movement in pakistan, can they take over that country and you have taliban terrorists with nukes pretty. guest: yes eric, that is a major nightmare many of those who studied area have in mind, not talk about it because were still dealing with afghanistan. so the goal of the taliban is get help from their cousins in pakistan. they give money and all of jihadist to pakistan.

of the intelligence came from and the other factor here is that the taliban is a sworn enemy of isis-k. these are rival organizations. so this may be an instance where the taliban was cooperating and provide information to the u.s but it underscores the precarious security situation that even though they knew it was coming they couldn't stop it because they are inside of the gates and they just don't have the same kind of footprint that they used to have in that country and that really sort sort of underscores the situation going forward, shep. jen psaki as talking about standoff capability for counter-terrorism. well, it is true that the cia has waged a drone war against al qaeda and other terrorists groups very successfully, and we've done drone strikes, the united states in pakistan, iraq, syria, yemen, but in all of those countries, shep, we had people on the ground agents that were helping identify where the targets are, where they're bgoing to be at a certain time it is noft just satellite and signal or intelligence and we won't have that in afghanistan because there is no embassy, so there are no cia officers

it is shameful president trump negotiated a deal with the taliban organization. our current president underestimated the impact of his announcement and the chaos that would ensue. worse, the lack of strength being shown by our commander in chief is embarrassing. thanks for being with us. but before you get to the foreign policy, i want to talk about this former u.s. marine we're talking about. it is the first person whose name we know his family spoke to rylee mccollum is his name. his wife has a baby due in a couple weeks. wanted to be a marine, so much so he wanted to carry around a toy rifle as a toddler, which i love the image of that. this was his first deployment. when you see in black and white who this person was and the devastation that his family will feel for the rest of their lives, it is just -- it is just another -- it's just horrific. >> it is. it's obviously incredibly sad. and as we get the rest of the names, it's going to be repeated over and over and our sorrow will pale in comparison to the families. it is a reminder. i heard somebody earlier

the taliban organized this offensive, it planned it, it prepared, it organized, it recruited, it deployed fighters, it pre-positioned war material all under the nose of the u.s. military, n.a.t.o. and afghan intelligence. this story has to be told. it's what the taliban did in the north, particularly, is significant. everyone was caught offguard. remember that president biden and his administration, basically it's their estimate that the afghan government was able to hold out. now they're talking the latest u.s. estimate is kabul could fall within 90 days. >> reporter: there are mounting critiques now to have the u.s. withdrawal, but the u.s. mission, as you know, in afghanistan, was explicitly to deny al quaida a safe haven after 9/11. so if the taliban do return to power, do you think al quaida again will be able to plot attacks against the united states from afghanistan? >> absolutely. the taliban-al quaida alliance is as strong as it ever has been. the taliban claims with that doha deal, which really was a deal to get the u.s. to withdraw from afghanistan, the taliban claims they won'

taliban. keep in mind, they are labeled a terrorist organization by russia on paper. ite the fact high-level contacts have been going on between the taliban and russian officials. interestingly, the kreml's special envoy said today that recognition of the taliban would depend on its behavior. they said we would watch closely how responsibly they govern the country in the near future. ros: china is another country that is not evacuating its embassy, though it has told its citizens in kabul to stay indoors for the momt. the chinese foreign ministry said it's willing to develop friendly relations with the taliban. >> the afghan taliban has expressed they hope to develop good relations with china and expect china to participate in the rebuilding and would never allow forces to use afghanistan's territory to harm china. we welcome that. for a long time, china has respected afghanistan's sovereignty and integrity, has not interfered in their fairs and followed a family policy toward all afghan people. china respects the rights of the afghan people to decide their own future

the taliban is organized. but the problem is there are several different divisions within the taliban and some are more extreme than others. but what's missing in all this is the strain that this is putting on the u.s. military. the extraction is taking place, but on the base itself they weren't exactly prepared for this. this base is now an island that has thousands of thousands of troops, additional troops placed on it. the troops are sleeping on the ground. they are eating mres. they are working around the clock. they are facing moral challenges as they are trying to decide who gets to be let in on the gate and who doesn't get let in. and then these flights, the flights are running around the clock. this has become an emergency air lift. and i spoke to one of the airmen on the flight that we came out on, and he said that the u.s. is putting the cart before the horse. why didn't we do this before when they were american combat troops in the country when the country was stable, it would have been much easier w

because if the taliban were as badly organized as the west, the taliban would never have been able to bring the regime of terror back into place. david: i now give the floor. >> thanks mr. chairman and thank you, mr. borrell. as a member of italy, founding member of the eu, i speak on behalf of young people in italy who are now the second-largest contingent in afghanistan after the usa. 554 of them have died and 9 billion euros have been spent by italy on this mission. all of this just to give the country back to the taliban? it is impossible to believe. we need to look at the fate of afghanistan and the huge impact it will have in europe. migrant flows we won't be able to control, security-style emergencies, in particular a boost to international terrorism, so it is up to us europeans standing together to show that the sacrifice our kids made in afghanistan is not going to be in vain. what can we do? stop making mistakes we europeans made in the syrian crisis, which has caused the -- millions of refugees, which we still have on our conscience and are still trying to cross the mediter

they literally give up an area number 2, once the afghan, once the taliban paramilitary organization talk me, take these provincial capitals. the afghan military is cut off from its supply lines on the other side of those provincial cities. that's just fallen. i've just fallen to the taliban. i think you're absolutely right, and i think it's a, it's a lot to do with conventional military fighting the law and the for generation war walk with, with the militia, which are half of them a part of the local population. what living there have a live history. and then with that also, i think the last 2 years for what, you know, whenever we talk about typing skill them in ability of military, whether it's an organized national army or a militia, the morale off the group is a big factor. i mean, it's steven because sometimes then the equipment or the technology that they're using, i think the morale since last week. 5 with us announcing its departure with then of course the areas support which is longer, very central window and when the military the good up to the thought on and going to spend.

found the international community here work stream li, skeptical eve and cynical about the taliban as an organization that with memories of what happened 20 years ago. with more recently the way it's acted in negotiations, for example, meant to have had negotiations directly with the government device rep gunny, which didn't happen. although the taliban says it's not their fault. they were acting in good faith. there is a lot of suspicion about the taliban. and then more recently, in the conflict that we have seen the some of these really nasty, isolated incidents by groups of taliban fighters allegedly involved in war crimes which international organizations, human rights groups said should be investigated. so it was really the international community which i think needed to be convinced. so in addition to these very important messages, which we were expecting about assurances on the rights of women about maintaining a healthy media media culture for example. although, oh, be it within the framework or dictates of sharea, whatever that means and on who defines exactly what those are. so that's more

there are many reports of the taliban going door-to-door, trying to find government workers and people who worked for the security forces, and for international organizations. the taliban are not a monolithic group. there is a huge gap between what is said in doha and what the actual fighters and commanders believe. reporter: as political heavyweights went to doha to meet with taliban negotiators, the international community started weighing their next move. written's foreign secretary said the strategy now was to be pragmatic and to moderate the impact of the taliban takeover. anchor: as well as looking at what is happening now within afghanistan, there is much speculation how the taliban will begin to build relations across the world. one of those possibilities is perhaps some kind of working relationship with russia. it is something that has been discussed. the russian embassy in kabul is still open, it is worth noting. moscow is cautiously optimistic about the new leadership, the prime minister saying today that the taliban so far have behaved in a civilized manner. let's hear more from our correspondent in moscow. felix: the relationship between russi

unlike the taliban, the hakani network is designated a terrorist organization. kidnapped and held americans, have ties with al qaeda and pakistani intelligence. chris, this underscores why many intelligence officials believe the taliban can't be trusted to prevent terrorist threats to the west from bubbling up in afghanistan after we leave. in fact, two taliban officials told our local correspondent yesterday that they regret the way they emptied prisons as they advance the country. among the thousands released were hardcore islamic state commanders, master trainers, bomb makers. those are people now posing the biggest threat to american troops. >> do we know how many are out there? >> hundreds to thousands is the best estimate i have heard. >> director brennan, clearly yesterday was not an intelligence failure, the warnings were out there, but as general mackenzie put it, anytime you build a plan like this, you expect to be attacked. what do you see to be the biggest threat in the waning days and who? >> it is almost an impossible task to provide security to th

what you said and i want to see if you believ the messaging the taliban is giving the white house. >> i never trust a terrorist organization at the end of the day, the taliban is an army of militants so the way you negotiate with a army of militants as you can have discussions, but what is the force behind that? what i'm concerned about is where is the belief that we wil execute in back up at fort totally out of the country in ten days. i don't see how that's working. you can negotiate with a militant army if you have strength, and if you can execut on that great when they see wha happened to iran, they know wha will execute. that is my concern, where is th backup behind our words. >> i think that is a valid concern. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> fox news contributor joey jones, i know you have been joining with the channel at length through this crisis, he just heard the president, what was your reaction? >> 11 years ago this month, i was laying on the battlefield both my legs were gone in i had a bunch of in in that moment when i felt like i was going to die in had no regrets and no worries my regrets we

i believe that taliban is a foreign terrorist organizations and should be designated as much, i thinkaid to taliban would provide aid to al qaeda, and isis, terrorist organizations that would set in motion -- a series of events dangerous for us, that is the path this administration is going down they are about to take a terrible situation and make it a horrible situation, if we begin to negotiate with terrorists, god help us all. trey: senator thank you for coming oand sharing with us the latest we're not even we have closed gates, thank you for coming on. >> thank you for spending part of your sunday night with us, i hope you have a great week ahead, until next week, you can find us on-line. good night from south carolina. live team coverage of hurricane ida, is next. ♪ ♪ >> trey thank you, "life, liberty and levin" will air at 10 p.m. eastern tonight. we are bringing you special coverage of hurricane ida, slamming the louisiana gulf. right now we have live team coverage, mike tobin and caroline schively live in new orleans, but first meteorologist adam klotz who is tracking the stor

i mean that the taliban relationship with organizations like a islamic state is a slightly complicated one. a national level, the taliban say that they have nothing to do with i so they do not. they do not tolerate. i still in fact they, if that's one of the assurances they've given into the international community that they will be no safe haven for groups like i so who me to do harm to countries western countries in particular, they've given that assurance. so the taliban regards iso lives arrival. it wants nothing to do with it. and yet a local level in some of the provinces, there is a suspicion that it is not as cut and dry does that. but there is some sort of crossover that maybe the res, kind of collaboration at local level that the taliban will argue that all of these attacks happen because they have targets here. you go to the airport and you have us military, you have the military of other countries who have been the, the enemies of that organizations like islamic state for decades now. so as long as they remain there at the airport, then the implication is, or the, the impli

to the extent of -- we have a season where the taliban is most organized and conducting most of its operationsmean, in a lot of ways this war has been a proxy war with act stand. many of their -- pakistan. many of their leaders reside in pakistan when it's not the fighting season. i want to know what the president was thinking and how he did not know this could be a possible outcome, and really what i want to know is are the people advising him, were the generals saying a different too often? we referenced many articles this praised president biden for bucking the generals. i'd like to know what he bucked and what those generals were saying. >> emily, we will get to your thoughts on all of this right after the break because coverage of the taliban takeover of afghanistan continues next. for mac. who can come to a stop with barely a bobble. lucia. who announces her intentions even if no one's there. and sgt moore. who leaves room for her room. with usaa safepilot, when you drive safe... ...you can save up to 30% on your auto insurance. get a quote and start saving. usaa. what you're made of, we

women and children do not do not have a future enough dentist and under the terrorist the taliban terrorists organization . there are the same ones that have that we've dealt with in the past. the u. s. never says that we've never deal with terra why. why are we sitting down on the same table and making agreements with me at home? that was not going to be a job that i was going to come to you guys because there are the enemy and the me woman, you know, be out of the market. the, they just need a hot play late was no doubt come knocking your door. the translators are left their left bleeding. taliban are going around killing every single one of them. we're not doing anything about it. the united states government that promised every single one of these workers that wanted to come get you out there or not there. those people are dying, one by one. well, the taliban now has a he, johnson of high tech weapons worth billions of dollars originally gifted by the pentagon to the afghan army. the u. s. national security advisor did answer questions and all of the arms that were left behind. those black hawks were

shall i mean, the taliban seem organized in a way that they haven't been organized before. they seem resourced in a way they haven't been resource before. well, the strategy is certainly working for them. i mean, they took 3 provincial capitals and matter of 6 hours last night. that's not taking 9 within one week to put that into context for you the last time they how the provincial capital was 5 years ago. so they are certainly on a roll last night around 6 pm. we got confirmation that for a city in the south western fall, and then a few hours later, fully comrey the provincial capital of which is only about 200 kilometers north of cobble. and around midnight, the provincial capital of public sean and the north east 5, the bad. we got confirmation that they had taken that also or not baghlan, which is just north of cobble is particularly significant because the highway, if you're going to go north from cobble, you have to go through battle. and so now that they've taken that strategically, it's very helpful for them because of essentially cut off the north from cobble a lo

want to say persistent relationship with pakistan when the pakistani government, as i say, organized the talibanhe first place, organized the taliban resurgence, harvard osama bin laden -- harbored osama bin laden in this technology to north korea and it is -- and the behavior of those afghan leaders that we, the united states, kind of put forward toward their own citizens. and the role of u.s. officials and u.s. development organizations in reinforcing and protecting and enabling, i mean, just an unbelievablyorrupt governmental system. so my afghan friends who are not in university, they were ordinary villagers in and around kandahar, they did not know what to make of it. it was like look, the taliban shakes us down at night by the government shakes us down in the daytime. so i would say that in my experience, even among very conservative kandaharis, it was not so much in ideological issue. not so much the u.s. was an invading country, certainly, not in the first years, my neighbors were saying, they were sick of being abused by their own government and there were sick of the international west

because, phil, it's the taliban internationally recognize terrorist organizations. but the taliban leadership has stressed that what it tries to convey is trying to convey that they've changed. it's been 20 years since they were in power. and over these 20 years, the afghan people grew and grew. and they're not the same taliban there. if they were back then and kind of shows, i guess you could say, because now they have twitter handle their holding press conferences, that by all means are civil. i'm sure many people thought it would be something more barbaric when they heard a taliban press conference. there's a lot of promises made here, right? so it's still remains to be seen if any of these promises will be held. but one thing this press conference has shown at least, is that the taliban has learned p r basic with learn how to communicate with the west. it's learned how to use these key words that the international community generally likes the new look taliban has already failed to convince some with the use foreign policy chief, joseph brown, saying that the onl

and as also under un sanctions, the taliban of phil, organizing the government. but what are the aims of the government? the 1st she was that she over all to maintain and be faithful to what we were fighting for, to serve the afghan people to serve as slum. the people who were working towards the school have been fighting for 20 years, have given their lives, lost family members, and have been locked inside jails. who connie himself was imprisoned for 5 years and seen him to death. he was released 2 years ago to accelerate stored peace talks with the us in cutter. do you know what position you have in government had in santa was, and comes udo due to every human having weaknesses? i question my ability, but we have our elders orders, and we have to do what they tell us. according to our ideology, my personal desire is to finish my education live freely and help the muslim connie network was started by his father, july dean. and since folded into the 10 above its been responsible for some of the worst attacks in afghanistan in recent years. his uncle had legal non

by definition it is certainly a rival because the taliban is a sunni muslim organization around the state. the taliban years ago attacked iranian diplomats in afghanistan. you actually had a period of time in 2000 when iranian forces were mobilizing along the border when the taliban was in control. so the taliban went to war with the taliban let afghanistan in 2000. what we have seen with iran over the more recent years, particularly with its relationship -- particularly as its relationship with the u.s. got worse, it started to funnel arms to the taliban. i think that's was -- that was meant to poke the u.s. in the eye and present more strength to america's rival in afghanistan. for iran, its major interest and concern is the she a muslim community in afghanistan. they are the religious minority in afghanistan, a very vulnerable community. the taliban, many of the murder. i run will wordy -- worry about their security. i think they will look to get reassurances that [indiscernible] iran does have a potential asset in afghanistan. there is a shia built militia on afghanistan that iran cul

the taliban and every other organization in the country knows that. n are in and around kabul right now, but they are not interfering with our operations. to the state department, the taliban are facilitating the safe passage to the airport for american citizens. that is u.s. passport holders. we also have a risk as you saw the other day of unarmed innocent civilians massing on that airfield where it became a safety hazard to our airplanes, crews, and of themselves. we have that under control inside the airfield. as many other risks out there, the troops are dealing with those every day in the volatile environment which can and will change rapidly. let me make a comment on the intelligence. i am saying there are warnings of a rapid collapse. i have previously said from this podium and in sworn testimony before congress that the intelligence indicated multiple scenarios were possible. one of tse was an outright taliban takeover following a rapid collapse of the afghan security forces and the government. another was a civil war and a third was a negotiat

with the taliban and every other organization, they know it. the taliban are in and around kabul right now, but they are not interfering with our operations. through the state department, the taliban are facilitating safe passage through the desk to the airport for american citizens. that is, u.s. passport holders. as you saw the other day, unarmed innocent civilians amassing on the airfield became a safety hazard to our airplanes, our aircrews, and themselves. we currently have that situation under control inside the airfield. there are many other risks out there. the troops are dealing with those every single day in the skeletal environment -- volatile environment which can and will change rapidly. let me make one other comment. i am seeing over the news that there are warnings of a rapid collapse. i have previously sent from this podium, and his sworn test me before congress, that the intelligence clearly indicated multiple scenarios were possible. one of those was an outright taliban take over, following a rapid collapse of the afghan securi

you get the last o of thf these eva out that the security will have to transition to the taliban or organizations agreed with the taliban. the taliban today reached out to the turkish government. theal taliban asked the turks i they would run the airport . >> sam, sorry to interrupt you. we need to go to state department. >> this is the sentiment we heard from the secretary but one that bears repeating. the american you see upon entering and the last upon exit is a u.s. marine. t there is one group he always meets with and that's the marine security guards. they are a constant. we it was wrenching for every single american but it was especially acutely felt by many people here. the deaths of these service members as well as the tragic loss of life on the part of so many afghans seeking nothing more than security and opportunity is something on the hearts and minds of every one here. it was dark day but our service members alongside our diplomatic personnel have been back at it again today. they're guarding the facility in kabul. they are facilitating the most noble of missions. that is the effort