vietnam as its capital fell. on the right, kabul today. u.s. diplomats being evacuated from the u.s. embassy as kabul false to the taliban. this morning, tony blinken on whether there s a parallel here. isn t that exactly what we re seeing now. even the images are evocative of what happened in vietnam. let s take a step back. this is manifestly not saigon. cnn s international diplomatic editor nic robertson has reported on the taliban and was in afghanistan on september 11th. nic, how are you dissecting what we re seeing in kabul and beyond in afghanistan? i think the taliban are on the verge of accomplishing their aims all along which was talk, talk, talk with the u.s. in
have supported in the past. and could be very much part of a plan. we hope that they ll also see the benefit in modernizing our schools, making sure all schools have good science labs, getting jobs in the short term but also investing long term in our kids future but we agree, it has to be paid for. we re not planning on having any revenue increase in the next this year and next. and you ll see the details of the president s deficit reduction plan in the next two weeks. ok. we ll look forward to that. thanks so much for taking your time to talk to us. thanks for having me. ok. meanwhile, these boys grew up together. you re about to see them. they played army together. now they re going to war together. the twin brothers heading to afghanistan on september 11th. they ll be here live. taxpayers gave them $535 million to build solar panels but they went under. so what happened to all of that taxpayer money? the f.b.i. is actually now on the case.