important. what you saw there and what is happening now are drastically different scenarios. >> because they miss that opportunity to expectations, you are already seeing the white house start to shift into crisis communications mode. if you look at that statement from the president just yesterday, he talks about the fact that this was a deal that was cut by the trump administration in terms of that -- those negotiations with the taliban for u.s. troops to leave by may 1, so making very clear that while he owns this decision and he is happy to own it he does not want to pass on this war to another president, he is also making clear he owns it with the former president donald trump. >> officials have repeatedly said they felt backed into a corner by that decision trump made. >> the thing is right now we're hearing from multiple afghan officials that the u.s. peace envoy is surrendering -- is negotiating what they consider a surrender deal. it's being called an interim government. and the departure of people like president ghani and his national