Quickly the taliban would race to and enter kabul? reporter: the surprise factor was that the afghan military collapsed, not just the line forces, but the special forces, the best fighters that they had. that they not only surrendered without firing a shot, but just turned over their equipment, surrendered. some were reportedly executed as they were surrendering. but they just gave up completely and ran from the fight. and this is after billions and billions of dollars spent over 20 years to build up that force. they had a force of 300,000 which vastly outnumbered the taliban. but you can t fight a guerrilla force as we learned in vietnam so many decades ago, without having a will to fight. and despite the best the american forces, the highly trained american forces could do
Eye on the ball with china. i wonder if this would be so much media hype if this was a u.s. summit between, say, biden and xi jinping or perhaps you know, anybody from china in general. but, because it s russia, we seem to have we give this country, this aura like the old soviet union of the 1980s and they are simply not. so, again, what i have said before is that we have to judge joe biden on his words and not on his deeds when covering situations like this. and during the obama-biden administration. a previous guest brought it up before. russia was allowed to invade and take over crimea without firing a shot and the obama-biden administration basically stood by and did nothing. they allowed russia to interfere in the 2016 election. recently the nord stream pipeline from russia to germany was allowed to go forward without any sanction sanctions being leveled whatsoever. again, base this president and biden on his words, i m sorry, not on his words because those
Prepared to do. no someone killed him. without firing a shot what yes he s leaned over face forward in the bathtub with his throat sliced and the man on the foam reporting the crime? k s older son. what it wasn t long before case wife darnella have made it to the mouth of the canyon, and was led to the command post that was set up just on the hill before their home. that s where they gave her the rooms. your life just comes tumbling down. you had it all planned out, you thought you knew it was going to be, then everything is gone. one k caught off guard, not k, but dara. impossible. but that seemed to be just what happened. at least, that s what roger and pam told the police and later us. and a very strange story it was. that began, they said, when pam
reality check. 30 years ago this weekend, the berlin wall fell, and the world changed. it felt like the future was endlessly bright. the cold war had been won without firing a shot and an evil empire was ending. it was a celebration about libration and the rise of liberal democracy, what seemed like a new consensus elevating individuals over ideological successes. the gaps between the hopes of 1989 and the facts of 2019 are stark. we ve gone from tearing down walls to building them. from autocrats being on the run to autocratics on the rise. with states secured by fear and greed while democracy itself seems in retreat. the liberal idea has been declared dead by a former kgp officer who has been president of russia. someone who called the end of the soviet union the 20th century s greatest tragedy. while one time liberal student
reporter: hi, craig. of course the secretary of state is here doing business as well, he s meeting with his counterpart, the foreign minister. he s meeting with the defense minister. he s meeting with angela merkel, chancellor of germany. they ll be talking about russia, china, iran, syria, all the big topics of the day. as you mentioned, craig, this is also about looking back. mike pompeo just unveiled a statue of ronald reagan on top of the u.s. embassy just over my left shoulder right here. it was more than 30 years ago that the president made that historic speech here just on the other side, on the western side, where he said, mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. now, for those german politicians, european politicians who are old enough to remember, there is a glaring difference between the way diplomacy is conducted by the u.s. versus before. before, under reagan, that massive geopolitical change was engineered without firing a