could be a trap but in the m meantime, the world hangs its hope on this idea of a better understanding for now between the united states and russia. much more on this coming up. clarissa and nick, thank you both very much. all right, big news this morning in terms of the legal piredicament for the former president. we will be joined by his former communications director amid reports that trump held secret meetings in the white house ahead of last year s attack on the u.s. capitol. and the very sad breaking news this morning. he was a bat out of hell who would do anything for love, except he wouldn t do that. today the world says good-bye to the legendary meatloaf. and now broken tide b it s gentle on her skin, and out cleans our old free detergent. tide hygienic clean free. hypoallergenic and safe for sensitive skin.
through diplomacy and dialogue. that s clearly the way to do it. it s clearly the responsible way to do it, but it s also up to russia. we ll take a final question. a very important news conference conference following a 90-minute meeting with russian foreign minister. this comes as there are more than 100,000 russian troops near or on the ukrainian boarder and very real fears of invasion. we heard very carefully chosen words from blinken. he said he leaves this meeting with a clear path forward. the u.s. and russians have a better understanding of each other s, positions he says, but no breakthroughs. and he made sure that say that any crossing of the boarder by russian troops would be met with swift and severe and a very united response. i want to bring in cnn s cl clarissa ward who is live in can i ev. nick robertson in moscow. clarissa, what did you hear
intensity and in terms of despair and also desperation. and today s crowd at the airport was a lot more calmer. everybody seemed a lot more tired. they were also resigned to maybe not leaving but they just wanted to hang on for hope that maybe leaving the country. with that said to see so much indiscriminate violence, it doesn t bode very well and i m really very worried. marcus yam, please be careful. it s extraordinarily brave what you re doing, and i appreciate it. and i appreciate you talking to us. thank you. thank you for having me on. i appreciate it. marcus yam, clarissa ward and all of the reporters and their teams in the country risking their lives. much more ahead on this next including the president cutting short his stay at camp david, heading back to the white house to handle the crisis as the administration also tries to do
and they thought they had longer to prepare for this moment. they didn t realize that within a matter of hours their lives will be turned upside down and within a matter of weeks the u.s. would essentially have washed their hands of this. yeah. cl clarissa ward in kabul. thank you. be careful. now, the l.a. times photographer whose photos we showed you at the top of program we ll be showing again in the course of the conversation. so again a warning, they are graphic. i spoke with marcus yam just before air time. the photographs you took these are people, are they trying to get to the airport and they re being stopped by the taliban? these are people basically who are waiting outside the airport. basically lingering outside the airport waiting for an opportunity, waiting to hear about an opportunity basically a chance to try to get into the airport. some actually have tickets and
remains were found in a wheel well of one of the c-17s on arrival from a flight out of kabul. there was also of course another round of finger pointing today, some of it partisan, some of it not, on what a mess the pullout has become. but we want to keep the focus right now on what matters most right now, the situation on the ground in afghanistan. clarissa ward is in kabul for us tonight. so just how quickly have things been changing now kabul is under taliban control? yeah, it s surreal, anderson. within a couple of days normal life is sort of starting to creep back in. the taliban announced yesterday that government workers can return to their positions. we saw traffic policemen for the first time in days guiding traffic on the streets today. but you know, what we really wanted to get at in our reporting today was this idea of people who weren t out on the streets, people who were too frightened to get out there and to show their faces. and that you have to look a little harder fo