problematic nature of a government and the military in afghanistan. so you re saying the intelligence agencies have been warning, in effect, this president and previous presidents for years about the fragility of the afghan government. do you then hold president biden responsible for in effect ignoring those warnings? well, i don t know that he ignored it. i think he is well aware of this background. i know for a fact that he was aware of it, was briefed on it consistently when he was vice president. so i don t know about ignoring it. as much as but i do think he s certainly aware of the situation. and that pertained in afghanistan. okay. let s look ahead now you say it is only a matter of time about al qaeda reconstitutes in afghanistan. is it likely that afghanistan becomes a terror haven much like it was before the u.s. invasion, before 9/11? absolutely.
the secretary of state reads an looks at every response to the dissent memos. important reporting. kylie atwood and barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you very much. this hour president biden will meet with the national security team to be briefed on intelligence, security and diplomat updates on this ongoing crisis in afghanistan. this afternoon biden is said to address the nation. we ll speak about the evacuation efforts of our afghan alleys. we re live at the white house. john, been some difficult messaging from the white house. you can t sugar coat what we ve been seeing out of afghanistan but i m sure the white house is aware of that. will president biden have something different to say today. i think what he s going to do is focus, jim, on the one thing that could salvage this situation from his point of the view, from the administration s point of view and that is try to describe the efforts that the u.s. military is making at the kabul airport and diplomatically throu
did the intel community get this wrong? did it underestimate how quickly the taliban would take over? well, jim, there is an old saying in intelligence about the difference between mysteries and secrets. secrets are noble facts and mysteries are imponderable. the intelligence community for years led by cia has been very weary of the viability of the afghan government and the competence and willingness to fight of the afghan military. and certainly this goes back to the obama administration when president biden was vice president. so he s well aware of this. so if you look at this historically, there has always been concern about how strong the government is. now did the intelligence community call it right and say in 11 days the government is going to collapse? certainly not. but certainly there was a general awareness of the
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the people who are investigating him. here, he said it s been looked at over and over. while these tax records of never been looked at and that s because he fought like hell to stop them from being turned over. now that silence has them he s going to present them to a grand jury and will see where that takes us. actually parker, you know the trump playbook better than most and it certainly wasn t your typical presidency. it certainly isn t your typical post presidency but tell me how might this legal challenge differ from those in the past that we ve successfully filed off? it differs sort of existential. he s not the president. president biden said he s the former guy and so there s a lot of questions we don t know yet about the challenge but i can get close to him, his family members, his business, the people in the organization but it s just not going to affect the nation the way it would have if he was president. keep in, mind this is a person