To prevent looting since their predecessors fleed. Smoke rising from the u. S. Embassy grounds as officials scramble to burn sensitive documents no they are destroying classified documents as i speak. The Visa Process is stopped. And now you know, President Biden said in july, this is not going to be a saigon. It is not like south vietnam. But guess what . When i talked to ambassador crocker, we think it is going to be worse. President biden has increased the deployment of u. S. Troops to kabul to 5,000 now to help with evacuations. And debate continues over which administration is responsible for the fall. There is no question that trump, his administration, secretary pompeo, they also bear very significant responsibility for this. President trump told us that the taliban was going to fight terror. Secretary pompeo told us the taliban was going to denounce Al Qaeda. None of it has happened. We go beyond the headlines. We will start with nbcs ali arousi in tehran. From where you see, w
Bring them to justice and make they were that you could not do that again. We succeeded in achieves those fundamental objectives. The idea we would remain there in the midst of a Civil War was simply not in the national interests. Thats the hard decision the president made. This as taliban officials say they will soon enter the palace to declare the country the islamic emirate of taliban. There is no they also bear significant responsibility to this. President trump told us that the president was going to fight Terror None of that has happened. None of it has happened. Ali, the u. S. Embassy issued a statement a short time ago, saying the Security Situation in kabul is changing very quickly. That includes at the airport. The americans there had hoped to get about 72 hours to ferry all of The Americans and their personnel out of afghanistan. If those reports are verified that now gunfire is being opened up on the airport. That means the situation is rapidly deteriorated. And its a bad s
Not have the ability the taliban can bring new le released prisoners to bear on the airport. they can interdict the airspace at any time probably in the next 48 hours. that will mean no of the afghan civilians will be allowed to get into kabul, unless the taliban would allow that. they may start selling them back as hosages. we have to focus on how to get the americans out of there. we are in a potential totally vulnerable military situation on
Some of the more experienced and trained afghan, more conventional forces, they put up somewhat of a fight, they just weren t able to stop the taliban. in some places the taliban was able to move into the areas, completely uncontested and take over provincial capitals and entire provinces. that s been the real determining factor here. what we know that is good on right now, morgan, the u.s. military is moving troops into kabul as we speak. they are still plans to build up to at least 5,000 troops in that city with the mission of evacuating as many americans as they possibly can. these are americans who have worked at the u.s. embassy there in kabul, and to help with assen afghans as they possibly can who are eligible for the special immigrant visa process. the mission will continue, as
Journalist who is on the ground there. fatima, can you tell us a bit about what you ve been seeing on the ground right now? frankly, did you anticipate the speed of this taliban takeover, and as americans, should we have anticipated it? talking about the current situation, afghans don t really know. the speed has been quite fast. none of us, especially residents in kabul, had anticipated such quick taking over of kabul by the taliban. i wanted to ask you, also, to follow up on that point. what is the mood like right now in the city? especially among the most vulnerable populations, women,