And the taliban saw, then we would have been back at war with the taliban. We trained with modern equipment over 300,000 afghan forces. Theyve got to fight for themselves. Im Pamela Brown in washington. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom on this sunday evening. Afghanistan has fallen. As americans scramble to get out, more are heading in. A short time ago the pentagon approved sending another 1,000 troops because of the worsening security conditions. In all, a total of 6,000 american Service Members are now being deployed. It has been a day of breathtaking developments and heart wrenching images. The crowd you see in this Social Media post, believed to be americans and their allies at the kabul airport, waiting to board planes and leave the country. Scenes of complete chaos as people clamor to be evacuated. Americas longest war has ended in humiliating collapse. Take a look at this. Al Jazeera Video showing victorious taliban fighters laying claim to the president ial palace. They swept into the capital with little resistance as Afghanistans President fled the country. Smoke came from the grounds of the u. S. Embassy as workers burned documents to keep them out of taliban hands. They removed the american flag before abandoning the Building Nick Paton walsh is in kabul. Jeremy diamond is at the house. Former director of national intelligence James Clapper is standing by to make sense of this all. Lets begin in kabul. Nick, is the taliban clearly in control of kabul right now . Reporter pretty much, yeah. I mean, obviously its dark. We have a limited perspective from where we are. But there are intermittent crackle of Gunfire Weve occasionally heard, lots of reports of taliban checkpoints around the city. There could be pockets of resistance elsewhere, but they have since the morning slowly moved their way in. There has been a Power Vacuum by the unannounced secret departure of the Afghan President , who 24 hours ago gave a speech saying he needed diplomacy, he was going to stay. And then, quote, one of his former officials ran away with a C Coterie of close aides. Its unclear where he landed but he did put out a Facebook Post saying he had to get into negotiations with the taliban. They wanted to enter his palace with arms so essentially he had to run for his life from the country he said hed served for 20 years. Theres lots of anger amongst afghans who feel betrayed by his departure. Its the taliban who are in control. Certainly those images, startling as they are, of them inside his president ial palace in one of these key offices, sat at his tables with their weapons. They brought in a camera crew, asked a couple of questions, made some answers. One of them spoke in english briefly about how theyd been in Qu Guantanomo Bay for 18 years. So far we are comparatively seeing a relatively relaxed takeover here in kabul. This has not been street fighting. There have been clashes here and there, but there is a broad sense of Chaos And Panic to some degree in that many are worried about what comes tomorrow when The Sun rises here and they wave the white flag of the taliban on many streets around here. Chaotic scenes at the airport. Thats the hub of the u. S. Evacuation plan. Thats where all these incessant helicopters weve been hearing here are headed. Normally thats a sign of the i. P. Traffic or that The Americans had some significant Military Offensive underway. Now its a sign of weakness. Its them leaving, flat getting out of here. Unclear how far down that road they are. The embassy appears to have been evacuated now and is now empty. So the staff will be at the airport getting out. We hear quite a lot of aircraft in the air. There are Tens Of Thousands of afghans who want out who worked for The Americans. Almost impossible to imagine they can all be processed in time given the deteriorating Security Situation here. The taliban saying to foreigners and diplomats you can be assured of your safety and security, stay. But a situation of many more americans coming in and the possibility of these two sides, who have been at war for 20 years, clash in this final moment. Back to you. Nick payton watch, tremendous reporting, setting the stage of what is playing out right now in afghanistan on what is a historic day. President biden in the middle of all of this, noticeably absent from public view on such a moment ous day. Reporter were hearing that discussions have been underway about when President Biden might address the nation, when he will return to the White House from camp david. Now a sr. Adminiadmini Administration Official saying the president is expected to address the nation in the coming days. Where and when is being worked out. This situation is clearly involving. The Department Of Defense sent an additional 1,000 u. S. Troops, which would bring the total in country to 6,000 to help with this evacuation of american personnel. The president was briefed this morning by his top national security advisors while he was at camp david. The White House very much trying to portray this image that the president is involved in this situation and overseeing it even as he is at camp david. Obviously his silence is notable. Instead we heard from the Secretary Of State Tony Blinken explaining the rationale for this withdrawal. There was an agreement that the forces without come out on may 1st. Had we not begun that process, then we would have been back at war with the taliban and back at war with Tens Of Thousands of troops having to go in, because the 2500 troops we had there and the Air Power would not have sufficed to deal with the situ situation. Especially as we see the hollowness of the Afghan Security Forces. From its not in the national interest to remain there. Reporter that reflects the sense from officials who tell us the president has no regrets about his decision. Obviously hearing from the president directly in the wake of The Fall Of Kabul is an entirely different situation. It certainly is, jeremy. Also, theres a big question about whether this was a failure of Intelligence Or Logistics or both. What is the viewpoint of the White House . Reporter it appears from them its neither. They insist this was not an Intelligence Failure. They rejected that characterization. One thing that is very clear is this was a miscalculation by the administration. Theres no other way about it when the Intelligence Community is talking about 30 days for kabul to fall and it happens in a matter of days. We heard from Secretary Of State Tony Blinken acknowledging that quite candidly, saying the u. S. Believes that the Afghan Security Forces would hold out longer against this taliban offensive. Instead, they crumbled very fast, much quicker than the u. S. Had estimated. That is one of the reasons were waiting to see what President Biden will say, because he just a month ago was talking about it being highly unlikely for the taliban to take over kabul and certainly that is what is happening today. That is something the president will have to answer for. The State Department said kabul was not an imminent threat of falling to the taliban. Now 48 hours later, it has fallen to the taliban. Joining me is James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence in the Obama Administration. First question to you, do you view this as an Intelligence Failure . Not surprisingly, pamela, no, i dont. I think whether the kabul collapsed immediately or in 30 days, the outcome was the same. So we can argue about whether the number of days was predicted or not. That in itself is not just an intelligence call. Clearly the State Department and particularly the embassy itself, i think would be the best source of gauging how long it would take before kabul fell. Just to understand this as i pointed out on friday, the State Department said it was not an imminent threat of falling. Now it has. The u. S. Is pooling now embassy Personnel In Kabul as the taliban is literally taking over. Help us understand how that cannot be viewed as an Intelligence Failure . Do you think its a failure of planning, logistics . What went wrong here . I would characterize it as a whole of Government Failure perhaps to see this. Because, again, i dont think this is exclusively an Intelligence Failure. No. The big message, pamela, to me is something were relearn ing after my war in southeast asia. That is we Cant Buy will to fight. The issue here, of course, was the Effectiveness Or Lack thereof by the afghan Military And Security and police forces. They just completely melted away much faster than anyone foresaw. Even though weve spent a fortune organizing, training, equipping and making the Afghan Military look like us, to include vehicles, you have to wonder. The taliban, in contrast, are prevailing and prevailing quickly in the absence of virtually any external support. Well, why is that . Well, the big reason is the afghans, the taliban have an ideology and a narrative to go with it that appeals to some, not all, afghans. They could not get away from the image that whatever government in kabul, corrupt though it may be, was supported by the west and supported by infidels. Again, you Cant Buy will to fight. We heard that exact same line in iraq several years ago when the iraqi soldiers that the u. S. Had been arming and training didnt have the will to fight against isis. And also if you talk to troops who have been on the ground in afghanistan working with these afghan forces, they could tell you that this was going to happen, that this was inevitable. How did the u. S. Make such a Big Miscalculation In Overestimating Afghan Forces and their ability to fight back against the taliban . I think we had probably more confidence than we should have in what is an intangible thing to measure, will to fight, particularly on a predictive basis. Youre quite right, the example of isis being triumphant almost overnight in the city of mosul in iraq, when five divisions worth of iraqi Military And Law enforcement components literally melted away overnight. We had the same thing again. So, again, this is a big lesson. You Cant Buy will to fight, and its very hard to gauge. Help us understand the national Security Perspective of this, the threat moving forward. Because now you have a scenario where the taliban has taken over afghanistan and now they have all these u. S. Weapons that the u. S. Had given to the afghan forces that are now at the disposal of the taliban. The taliban has said they are more disciplined now, they are more empowered. What kind of threat do they face to the united states particularly in harboring other terrorists in afghanistan . Thats, of course, the concern. Will they repermit terrorists such as Al Qaeda or isis to regenerate or expand. I dont think things are quite as rosy for the taliban as we might think, because theyre going to have to run things on a very decentralized basis, and theyve got some competitive factions within the taliban movement. But youre quite right to cite the fact that the concern here is acting as a harbor, a haven, for Terrorist Groups such as Al Qaeda and isis. It puts a big burden on the Intelligence Community to watch this from afar and pro provide adequate warning. Thank you for your expertise on this unfolding situation in afghanistan. We have more breaking News Coverage of the chaos in afghanistan with republican Congressman Michael Walt who served in afghanistan and is on the armed services committee. 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He has utterly failed to protect the american people from this challenge. I wouldnt have let my 10yearold Son get away from this kind of pathetic blame shifting. Lets also not forget that pompeo supported negotiations with the taliban for a Troop Withdrawal from afghanistan. Congressman Michael Walts joins me now. You served in afghanistan. You have been there multiple times over the last 20 years. What is your reaction to seeing these images showing how quickly the taliban was able to regain control . Its heartbreaking and its infuriating and it didnt have to be this way. I think this is going to go down as the worst foreign Policy Disaster in modern american history. Its a disaster from a humanitarian standpoint. My heartbreaks for the afghan women, the journalists, the Civil Society leaders that are being hunted down as we speak. Its a disaster for u. S. Credibility. Can you imagine what Ukraine And Taiwan and others are thinking now, watching how this administration abandoned allies. We will see Al Qaeda 3. 0. We will see a repeat of what happened in iraq when we pulled out too soon under the Obama Administration and isis came roaring back, caliphate the size of indiana, attacks across the west. There was no plan. There was no plan to help our interpreters, there was no plan to help those in Civil Society and now theres no plan for bases in the region to go after Al Qaeda if they come back. Were Flying Blind in afghanistan right now as we approach the 20th Anniversary of 9 11. Were both hearing from va veterans, from Gold Star families, from 9 11 victims saying what was it all for, was our sacrifice in vain . On that note, what you would you say to the White House who would say, well, you dont want to keep Combat Troops on the ground, risking their lives. You dont want to be in another countrys civil conflict in perpetuity, and also this argument that theyre just carrying out the deal that the Trump Administration struck with the taliban. Number one, President Biden has shown no problem with tearing up Trump Administration deals, whether it was keystone, the iran policy, israel and palestine. So to say you Cant Pivot from your predecessor, i think, frankly, is a febckless excuse. What were dealing with here is an ideology. Americans need to hear from the commander in chief of all administrations that it takes a long time to defeat an idea. Its easy to bomb a tank. Harder to take down an idea. Its taken decades to beat Communism And Fascism and its going to take a long time. Al qaeda intends to reconstitute. This problem will find us home. The next pulse nightclub, the next san bernardino, the next 9 11 is going to be on this administrations watch. I have seen no plan from the pentagon, the State Department or anyone else in their briefings to congress. You know, when we have to send our soldiers back, sadly, to deal with Al Qaeda 3. 0, no bases, no local allies, theyve been hunted down and no one that will trust us again. How many soldiers are we going to lose in the future because we put arbitrary timelines on defending america . The White House also argues that the taliban is in a stronger position now because the past administration did dealmaking with them and gave them legitimacy. That was a bad deal. I was clear on the record. I thought the taliban were using these talks the entire time to get us out and thats exactly what theyve been able to do. Look, the Buck Stops at the president. If he thought that was a bad deal and he was advised by the pentagon and his Intelligence Community, leave a small presence to provide that support to the Afghan Army and to continue our counter terrorism. We have to stay on offense. We cant wait until it strikes back home. Talking about the national security threat, Al Qaeda 3. 0 is your concern, and now there are u. S. Weapons in afghanistan that the u. S. Had supplied to the afghan forces that are now at the disposal of the taliban. Thats right. There are literally dozens of massive caches of artillery, heavy armor, ammunitions that are now at the disposal of the taliban and Al Qaeda. They will come roaring back. They fully intend to. The intelligence is clear there. Again, i havent seen a plan to deal with that. When our military goes, our intelligence eyes and ears go, our contractors go, everyones gone. Thats one of the reasons we saw a collapse so quickly, because weve been blind the last several months on the ground. As we wrap this up, your personal experience on the ground, you worked with the afghans, you had interpreters, you worked very closely with them. Theres a lot of talk, the administration conveying that theyre surprised that the afghan forces essentially melted away so quickly in facing the taliban. What do you say to that . One of the things you have to understand on the ground is the battle nfield psychology. We saw this in iraq and now were seeing it in afghanistan. When the overall narrative from the taliban is america has abandoned you and you hear it from the White House and theyre given a choice to that Afghan Army commander. Were going to win eventually. You can surrender and go home to your Family Or Face beheading and a gruesome death. Thats kind of the narrative on the ground. Or even for those Afghan Army commanders that stood strong, they dont go after them, they go after their families. Imagine if our soldiers families were at risk when theyre out there fighting . Thats the psychology that the taliban used so effectively. Just some Air Support you know, what the afghans have to hear on the ground, they dont care about 200 troops, 2,000, 20,000. They need to hear america is with you. What we saw in 2001 when we invaded is american Air Support bolsters their spine. This could have been prevented. One more piece, pam. The taliban havent done this on their own. Pakistan is behind them and pakistan is complicit. Im calling for sanctions and im calling for a freezing of aid on pakistan for this proxy war. We need to take a drastic new strategy. The decision for the administration going forward is what now. Do they shrug their shoulders and just accept this Festering Cancer of terrorism . Or do we support a resistance, do we take additional measures, do we change strategies . Youre saying that because pakistan has been accused of harboring Al Qaeda and the taliban. Theres a lot more to talk about. 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You can get a scale for what happened here. If you look to the right, that would be part of the roof, a part of this building that collapsed into the swimming pool. If you look further to the left, you can see kind of a Teetering Set of columns up there. Back down here, you can see an excavator that was presumably part of the Search And Rescue efforts that took place. According to authorities, there is very much likelihood that there remain bodies in this rubble. Yet theres not really a lot of Search And Rescue efforts here ongoing. What is ongoing is looting. People are coming through this site taking basically whatever they think they can sell. Metal, we saw a dresser be taken out. This goes to the desperation in this area. This is a very poor part of haiti that has been devastated by previous natural disasters over the last decade. These are opportunistic people coming here to try and take what they can get from something that collapsed during this earthquake. There have been people here trying to help, trying to look for survivors. That is not the majority of what is happening here right now. What you dont see here is haitian authorities. There are no police, firefighters or Search And Rescue crews. There are just people from the community and this lone excavator thats not currently in operation. You see a lack of authoritative stance from the government trying to help people get control of this situation. Unfortunately this is the reality on the ground at this moment. Unfortunately it was a reality i saw there on the ground in haiti after the 2010 earthquake. We have more Breaking News on the fallout from The Fall Of Kabul. We have just learned the u. S. Is curtailing the evacuation of afghans who worked for the u. S. To prioritize americans who are trying to get out of the country. Ill get Fareed Zakarias take when we come back. Gillette proglide. 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This morning, cnns Fareed Zakaria spoke with admiral mike mullen, the top Military Advisor to president s george w. Bush and barack obama. Listen to his take on what went wrong in building an Afghan Army. I think all of us, myself included, underestimated the impact of what a corrupt government does. And that was with president karzai and it is sustained in president beghani to this day. Many of the afghan people had Great Expectations for us, but looked at us In The End and said how can you support this government which is ripping us off right and left. Fareed, we just heard what Admiral Mullen said. So many officials across multiple administrations underestimated what a corrupt government could do. When you look at history, how is it possible that the u. S. So badly underestimated what could go wrong here . This is a very familiar historical pattern. Unfortunately, it is eerily reminiscent of vietnam. We had the South Vietnamese government as allies. We sent in half A Million troops and we convinced ourselves this was a strong fighting force, a legitimate government. We tried to give it all the assistance we could. Meanwhile all the reports that said it was corrupt, that it didnt have the support of its people, we dismissed. Ultimately we saw what happened when we left. The South Vietnamese army just couldnt fight. This is frankly more staggering. The South Vietnamese Army And South vietnam lasted two years after The Americans left. This is a collapse within a matter of days. This may be the most stunning Military Collapse in history. Even the fall of france to hitlers armies took a few weeks, took about five weeks, may to june in 1940. I think were all going to have to take a Long Hard Look and ask were we deluding ourselves when we talked about an Afghan Army of 300,000 . Was that a Paper Army . Were the commanders actually just taking the salaries of these people . When we talked about their effectiveness, were we creating metrics to convince ourself there was progress when in fact there was really very little progress. You mentioned vietnam. More recently there was the Rake Example where iraqi soldiers dropped their weapons and frled and didnt have the will to fight in the face of isis. When you talk to troops on the ground, they say how this has played out, working with the afghan forces and how they think, this was inevitable that this happened and happened so quickly. You said this is the worst Military Collapse in history. How does the u. S. Justify this outcome after 20 years filled with loss of Life And Spending billions of dollars . I think i hope there will be a Long Hard Look at the lessons we can learn from this. Think about just the Intelligence Failure. The united states spends 60 Billion on intelligence, more than the rest of the world put together. This is not a question of what kind of intelligence do we have about some far off country where we dont have much of a presence, i dont know, Myanmar Or Something like that. This is afghanistan. We have had a massive Troop Presence in afghanistan for 20 years. At its height, the u. S. Had 130,000 troops, not to mention the contractors, cia people. We penetrated the society deeply. And the Intelligence Agencies got it spectacularly wrong in terms of what would happen if The Americans started to withdraw. The capacity of the Afghan Army and the capacity of the taliban. So all of it requires some very hard soul searching. I hope we appoint some kind of a national commission, frankly, to look into this. This is a failure on the scale of pearl harbor, 9 11, any of them. You mentioned 9 11. Were just about to reach the 20th Anniversary of 9 11 as the taliban now takes over afghanistan. Fareed zakaria, thank you for coming on. 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We had some Viewer Questions and one question just about that. Generally, this viewer asks, what symptoms or actions should make me a fully vaccinated person suspicious enough to get a Covid Test . Right. So early on in the pandemic, we were talking about the shortness of breath, fever and chills. You can still get all of those flulike illness. Im seeing a lot in my praf patients with just a cold. You can have a sniffle, which is scary, and you can still actually have covid. And remember, because the vaccine works really well, it decreases the viral count, you could may not be short of breath. You may have a headache and a cold and youre feeling off. It is best to get tested. There is been a lot of focus on the Pfizer Moderna vaccines but ive been getting a lot of questions about the J J Vaccine. This viewer is asking, how is it doing against the Delta Variant . Will we be eligible for boosters sooner than later if it is losing efficacy more quickly . Right. The reason the J J Vaccine is getting if you will a little of that reputation like it is a second Class Vaccine is because were comparing it to moderna and pfizer. Remember, with them youre almost 100 prevented from dying and going into the hospital. If you look at the J J Vaccine, it holds up pretty well for hospitalization. But as you expressed, people who have had the J J Vaccine, they should be talking to their doctors and getting a second shot with an mrna vaccine. That i know has not been officially recommended yet but sometimes in medicine you have to go with common sense. If the J J Vaccine is not as effective as moderna and pfizer, i think they are eligible for the second shot with the mrna vaccine. Ive talked on several doctors who say, who are questioning why it is taking so long for kids younger than 12 to be approved to get the vaccine. They say you have to do a Costbenefit Analysis with school starting, what should you do . This apparently reached out and said whats the status of the Research Trials on kids younger than 12. Im very nervous. My state has prevented schools and municipalities from mandating masks. Thats a big concern for lots of parents i just talked about this morning on cnn. Listen, for kids younger than 12 of parent are really anxious. The reason that theres a little hold on this is because young kids, 5 and 6yearold kids, they are not mini adults. Their Immune Systems are brand new. They havent seen a lot of disease and viruses so it is really important to find that right dose. And that is what is taking so long. Just likes physicians like the american academy of pediatrics, were trying to put pressure on the fda to get these kids vaccines approved. We have two months of data. I think we should get it out there. This Delta Variant is really affecting a lot of children on a daily basis. All right. Thank you. And in the cn. In newsroom, our coverage of the Taliban Takeover continues. U. 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