afghanistan's civil war? when afghan troops will not. how many more lives, american lives, is it worth? how many endless rows of headstones at arlington national cemetery? >> the president, also, spoke to the mess we are seeing now, saying the buck stops with him. he had less to say, though, about precisely how the administration got things so wrong. just six weeks ago, you will recall, president biden called the taliban takeover of the entire country, quote, highly unlikely. we will talk more, shortly, about how in the space of just a few days, unlikely became inevitable. first, cnn's clarissa ward with the latest from kabul. clarissa, where do things stand right now with the evacuation of u.s. and allied personnel? >> so, basically, what we're hearing is that hundreds of u.s. personnel from the embassy have been moved, via helicopter, to the airport. evacuations have been going on, pretty much, nonstop.