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been often been bombed. thank you very much for all of that and joining me in brussels, chief white house correspondent, kristen welker and chief white house correspondent, kelly o donnell. great to have my colleagues and pals here. we ll be hearing some good news from kyiv. they re holding them off. but mariupol in the south is a disaster. what the nato secretary general said is we can no longer take peace for granted. that s what he said at the news conference. how unsubtle. nato has, for 70 years, been the guardrail against war in europe for the most part. and here you have nato standing guard but ukraine falling piece by piece to russia. and that s why there s so much pressure on president biden and thenatedo allies to announce something significant when they
troops, ligase taliban special forces soldiers, decked out in u.s. supplied military gear. standing guard at kabul airport after the last of u.s. forces left. also in their arsenal, thousands of u.s.-made armored vehicles and trucks. taliban fighters can be seen today in the cockpit s afghan air force aircraft. the pentagon set all those vehicles were disabled. we are seeing these amid increasing warnings that taliban victory and afghanistan will inspire other terrorist groups to launch attacks on the west, while hurting the west s ability to stop them. bret baier, your thoughts. bret: it s a major problem. the taliban is one of the best armored governments. they have more equipment, more helicopters than australia. they have night vision. they have all this material we left. at the end of the operation, the
saying they re keen to stress, it is not over because of this attack. it is over because that was previously scheduled. this was the moment whereby they were going to end their evacuation operation. but what we also saw, brianna, i think will help our viewers understand a little bit how this could happen was that essentially you didn t have a huge amount of space between the first line of defense, which were these taliban check points and then u.s. servicemen sort of standing guard at the entrance to the airport. and what we experienced when we were dealing with these taliban check points is that they were not actively searching for weaponry, for ieds, things of that nature. they weren t necessarily patting everyone down. they were much more concerned with seeing people s documentation and with trying to push back the crowds, trying to reduce the number of afghans who were getting in and things of
on this side american soldiers glance at papers. british soldiers standing guard. doing whatever they can to contain the chaos. translation: these americans are inexperienced. they asked the people to come in a very short time. they made this rush of people. this is the mismanagement of the americans, and nothing else. and at a news conference today and even starker message. my message to the americans is they should evacuate all the citizens by the deadline of august to 31st. they have the resources, they have the planes and the airport and they should evacuate all the forces and contractors and those belonging to them. we will no longer allow them to evacuate afghans. in the heart of kabul behind another gate, another place of hardship and heartache. families displaced by fighting.