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people, afghan citizens trying to withdraw whatever cash they have in atms, banks, trying to also secure flights out of the country. as all of this unfolds, the u.s. is sending troops into afghanistan. 5,000 to ensure what president biden calls an orderly and safe drawdown. we have yet to hear from the president today. but his secretary of state this morning defending the decision to withdraw forces from the country. when the president came to office, he had a decision to make. the previous administration negotiated an agreement with the tall wan that said our forces, only about 25 00 would be out of the country on may first. and the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there, i think is simply wrong. let s go straight to kabul afghanistan cnn international security editor nick paton walsh is there for the breaking developments. nick, while we have reported from our state department correspondent that all u.s. personnel have be ....
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. they ve got to fight for themselves. i m 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. america s longest war has ended in humiliating collapse. take a look at this. al jazeera video showing victorious taliban fighters laying claim to the presiden ....
of lives, and billions of dollars, the entire u.s. military effort is collapsing over the course of a weekend in embarrassing fashion with the type of scenes we haven t witnessed since the fall of saigon in vietnam in 1975. cnn s nick paton walsh is live in kabul. nick, all of this is so stunning. you ve covered this for so many years. we just learned that the presidential palace was officially handed over to the taliban. did you ever think it would end like this? what can you tell us? reporter: i mean, look, it is utterly breathtaking to see those images of one of president ashraf ghani i should say former president ashraf ghani s main offices inside the presidential office where the taliban sat confidently holding their weapons at his desks. it s just startling to see. briefly in those images filmed by al jazeera, let s just say we have over the last sort of half hour or so heard an uptick in helicopters in the skies. that normally means american activity. that s ....
widespread destruction. hospitals overwhelmed by seriously ill patients as the delta variant tears across the country. the situation is dire. we are simply out of time. we have zero icu beds left for children. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. our breaking news tonight, president biden is authorizing 5,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. a mere four months after he announced the u.s. was pulling out. it s the latest sign the afghan government is on the edge of collapse, after 20 years and a trillion dollars the u.s. has spent backing it. these images show afghan civilians on the run from the fighting. five more capital cities have fallen to the taliban in the last 24 hours. now 22 of the 34 regional capitals are under the militant group s control. only two major cities, kabul and jalalabad, remain under the afghan government. this time lapse from the long war journal shows the speed that the taliban gained territory. see how quickly ....
not because there was no evidence. and so he resigned without explanation in lieu of being fired. we also know that the replacement that donald trump put in the job, somebody shifted over from the u.s. attorney position in savannah, also found there was no evidence. the picture that s emerging from some of these interviews, including those of jeffrey rosen, former acting u.s. attorney, is that donald trump was pushing across the body politic, looking for soft places where he could work his will. and it is fortunate for american democracy that where he tried and where it was most sensitive, he encountered resistance, from rosen, from people like brad raffensperger in georgia. the challenge of course is what happens next time and are republican officials facing similar pressure willing to do the same thing again that was done with donald trump. we don t know the answer to that, and the senate judiciary committee led by dick durbin, the chairman, is trying to get some answ ....