personnel being lifted off of an embassy in afghanistan. that that was not something that was going to be happening. but as you watch the scenes of these helicopters flying into the country, it is certainly a stunning and shocking image as this administration really watched the speed with which the taliban decided to take control of the country and it is something that caught the administration off guard. arlette, it really seems like they miscalculated just how quickly this was going to happen. thank you for joining us. we ll go back to kabul now where cnn s nick payton walsh is. the u.s. spent 20 years and billions of dollars training and equipping these afghan forces. how did they fall this quickly? reporter: the shortest answer to that is they simply were never what the united states saw them as being. a lot of that money billions of dollars came into this country, was pocketed by corrupt officials, misspent on projects
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