- While breaking his silence finally,

President Biden has spoken.

Did he take blame?

Did the buck stop here?

Oh no, he doubled down on his decision

to leave Afghanistan andhe played the blame game

for the horrific follow-up.

So why was no one prepared forthe rapid Taliban takeover?

Both Republicans and Democratsare demanding answers.

Meanwhile, the world iswitnessing horrendous images

of desperate Afghans trying to flee.

Some cleam clinging tothe fuselage of a plane

and then falling to their deaths.

CBN's, Jenna Browder hasmore from Washington.

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- After a full day of dramatic images

of Afghans trying to flee,

President Biden address the nation Monday.

And while he stuck to his decision

to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan,

he offered no explanation for why the US

wasn't prepared for the rapid collapse.

Chaos and desperationat the Kabul airport,

thousands of Afghans crowding the runway

surrounding this massive military jet

clinging to the outside of the fuselage.

Some of them falling to their deaths,

inside 640 of the lucky.

The Taliban announcing they're now

in full control of Afghanistan.

The outcry over the scenes,

forcing President Biden tocome down from Camp David

and talk to the American people.

- I stand squarely behind my decision.

- [Jenna] The president blaming

the rapid fall of Afghanistan

on the Afghan government and military.

- The truth is, thisdid unfold more quickly

than we had anticipated.

So what's happened?

Afghanistan political leadersgave up and fled the country.

The Afghan military collapsed,

sometime without trying to fight.

- [Jenna] And his predecessor.

- When I came into office,

I inherited a deal that President Trump

negotiated with the Taliban.

- [Jenna] On Capitol Hill, few lawmakers,

Republican or Democratare defending Biden.

- What we have seen isan unmitigated disaster,

a staying on the reputation ofthe United States of America.

- [Jenna] Senate minorityleader, Mitch McConnell,

adding that the country could once again

become a safe Harbor for terrorists.

- Every terrorist around the world,

in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, in Africa

are cheering the defeat ofthe United States military

by a terrorist organization.

- [Jenna] Even top Democrats are critical,

Senate intelligence committeechairman, Mark Warner

issuing a statement callingfor an investigation

into the collapse.

"I hope to work with the othercommittees of jurisdiction

"to ask tough but necessary questions

"about why we weren't better prepared

"for a worst-case scenario

"involving such asswift and total collapse

"of the Afghan governmentand security forces."

There are also growingconcerns over human rights,

especially for women and girls.

Biden says he'll continueto speak up for them,

but many worried that won't be enough.

- In an effort to calm the population,

the Taliban is offeringamnesty and inviting women

to be a part of their government.

At the same time, there arereports of girls as young as 15

being forced to marry Taliban fighters.

In Washington, Jenna Browder, CBN news.

- It's a horrible stain,

and the buck does stopwith the number one man.

You know, former secretaryof defense Gates said that,

"I've known him for many years

"and Joe Biden has never made

"one right decision on foreign policy.

"Every time, everything he'san unstated has been wrong.

"And this is a disaster

"and he's trying to putthe blame on somebody else

"and it makes you sick to your stomach."

Well senior internationalcorrespondent, George Thomas

has made several trips toAfghanistan since the US invasion

he's joined us now.

George, the Taliban treatmentof women has been horrific.

What's this move about invitingthem to join the government,

is that for real?

- Yeah, exactly, is that for real?

We both know that is not for real.

This is window dressing Pat,

wait for the, between5,000 to 10,000 Americans

to finally be evacuated from Afghanistan.

Wait for the 6,000 troops

that are now controlling the Afghan,

the Hamid Karzai international airport

as well as the other NATO troops,

trust me once all of our forces are out,

all of our Americans are out,

then the real crackdown begins.

This is window dressing, there is no way,

this is a seventh century medieval group

that believes that womenare second class citizens.

There is no way thatthey're going to allow

women to participate

in the governing process in Afghanistan.

Today, Pat, a few dozen Afghan women

took to the streets ofKabul, the capital city,

demanding that they wouldhave access to medical care,

that they would have access to education,

they'd be able to workin some of these places

that were manned by by women,

Afghan Taliban forces wentin and told them to go home.

The reality is that in thenext few weeks, months,

we are going to see theseverity of this group

and what they believe in, andthis is Islamic Sharia law.

Let's not kid ourselves, 20 years later,

this is a group thatwants to take vengeance.

And in fact, there are reports today

that over the last 20years, United States,

as well as our coalition forces

created a biometric database

of all the Afghan security forces

that participated with coalition forces

as well as Afghan special forces,

including NGO is thenon-governmental organizations

that worked for thebetterment of Afghanistan,

including women, including Christians,

the reports are that the Taliban

now has the entire biometric data list.

In fact, there are reportsas we come on the air today

that from Herat to Mazar-i-Sharif,to Kandahar, to Kabul,

Taliban are going door-to-door

checking with them, theyhave in their hands,

the biometric information,looking for people,

those who worked withthe Afghan government

and those who workedwith the United States

these past 20 years, this is no joke.

- George, one last question.

Biden has done something, itseems to me rather foolish.

He's putting more troops into the embassy.

I mean, how are theyever going to get out?

- Yeah, I mean, this is, you know,

the state department yesterday said

that they were preparingfor all kinds of scenarios,

but clearly you can see,

we only had about 2,500 troopsprior to a few weeks ago.

Suddenly we have this influx,

if you are all concernedabout getting troops out,

why would you have thismassive influx of troops?

This is going to be the challenge.

And to tell you the Al-Qaeda today,

from the streets of Sweden,to Yemen, to Saudi Arabia,

to Iraq, to the deserts sands of Morocco,

all the way to Pakistan, Al-Qaeda

and all of the various alphabet soups

of terrorist organizations

are praising what has happened.

In fact, a major groupthat monitors traffic

and charter amongst the insurgent groups,

the Al-Qaeda groups said,

"Jihadis have portrayed theTaliban conquest of Afghanistan

"as a watershed event,akin to the 911 events."

- Thanks, George.

- Ladies and gentlemen, unfortunately,

the commander in chief is incompetent

and his military advisors maynot be too competent either,

but he did go against theadvice of his senior leaders

who warned him, thiswas not the right course

he went ahead and did it anyhow.

And we have at the head of our government,

somebody who is just not with it.

And boy, if there was ever a time

to ask for God's mercyon America, that's it.

But we are, unfortunately you have to live

under the actions of yourleaders and if it's wrong,

then you have problems.