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, switching sides, not putting up a fight and there would really just be a route all the way to kabul. >> mike memoli, jake sullivan was asked about this during the white house press briefing.