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saigon in 1975. how do you explain getting this so wrong? first, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. but you know it s not the helicopter. it s not the mechanism. no, no, it s the last-minute scramble. you know that. it s the last-minute scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. it is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. and part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan national security forces, we could not give them the will. the scenes at the city s airport today are staggering. thousands of afghans d ....
and give everything i ve got to my company, and my community. i got you. for the love of people. for the love of community. for the love of progress. citi. we begin this hour with our breaking news out of afghanistan. america s 20-year presence in the country is ending. as our dreams of democracy in afghanistan. taliban fighters entered the capital today. this video from al jazeera shows taliban fighters in the presidential palace. richard engel reports the taliban is effectively in control of the city. nbc news has confirmed that afghan president ashraf ghani has left the country. he issued a statement he had a difficult decision to make and chose to avoid bloodshed. now, afghan civilians are trying to get out however they can. this video posted on social media appears to show a crush of people at the international airport in kabul. all day, people have been being shuttled to the airport. the embassy told people not to come to kabul airport and instead shelter in place ....
after the devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake. relief workers say they are dealing with problems right now. the threat of gangs making it difficult to access areas. speak with one of them a little bit later on this hour. yeah that really country really can t catch a break. their president was excessive needed last month. a tropical storm is heading there. we were gonna talk with one of those groups. but first we do say good morning. i m lindsay reiser. we re talking about two countries right now that can t catch a break at all. of course i m candice gibson. let s get straight to the big breaking news out of afghanistan where the taliban claims every major city accept cobbled, at least for now, is under their control. we re going to take a look at a time lapse mask here and it shows the districts across afghanistan, how quickly the taliban has gained ground. this was compiled by the longhorn journal. and the red you see shows the districts control by the taliban ....
it. and our colleague mehdi hasan had an incredible guest on lost hour, i don t know if you saw it. i did, yes. he had the woman who was the first female fixed wing pilot from the afghan air force who eventually had to apply for asylum in our country because of the taliban hunting her. her talking about seeing what s happening to her country, her fear for her family still in afghanistan right now, i mean, there s no word for it other than dire. i share your view that when mehdi finished his interview, it was remarkable to watch. may this have a better ending. rachel, you have a good weekend and we ll see you monday. thanks, ali. it is friday, friday the 13th. it may seem silly to say this but joe biden is still president of the united states. perhaps you didn t know, but for months the foam pillow guy was telling every poor, sad soul who would listen that joe biden and kamala harris would resign after the fraud of the 2020 election was exposed. it didn t happe ....
city kandahar and consolidating territory in the south, north and west. the taliban took its first provincial capital a week ago. now their territory looks like this. closing in on kabul. panicked afghans are you rush to the capital as aid agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis. at least 241,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes. and the humanitarian needs are growing by the hour. reporter: these men all worked for nato as construction workerless, cooks, interpreters. we are enlisted on the ground we learn the language we translated. we issued them. he is a tourist. we put them in the jail. because of that, they will kill us, every one they will kill us. reporter: many here feel abled and betrayed. nbc spoke directly with the taliban commander in afghanistan who said that the group is aware of u.s. forces in the country and said if any try anything they ll be dealt with the same way they deal with afghan forces. ali. kelly in afghanistan. let me ....