going to stay till we get them all out. >> reporter: today the administration said u.s. intelligence consistently identified the risk of a rapid collapse but general milley insisted those predictions were for weeks or months. >> there was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated a collapse of this army and this government in 11 days. >> kelly, did the president talk at all today about those striking images from the base in kabul of afghans desperate to get out? >> reporter: he did, lester, and dismissed those as scenes that happened four or five days ago, stressing the important thing is that the u.s. needed to get control of the airport and did. lester >> kelly, thanks in afghanistan, two distinct worlds. order now restored at the airport in kabul as the u.s. military steps up evacuations. and the chaotic situation in the rest of kabul and beyond under taliban control. richard engel is there for us >> reporter: the u.s.-led evacuation today is finally moving quickly and smoothly from the military side of kabul airport. planes arriving and