Hi everyone, Jake Tapper here.

If you're a fan of the lead, I think you're going to like this special mini-series I'm

about to share with you.

It's called America's longest war.

What went wrong in Afghanistan?

And it's a documentary that we put together during the final months of America's withdrawal.

In it, you're going to hear conversations I had with eight former U.S. commanding generals

who led the war effort over two decades and four administrations.

We try to examine the mission and the missteps, how political decisions hurt the ability of

service members to succeed, whether the Pentagon misrepresented the Afghan military's abilities

to the public and how after twenty years of sacrifice, the U.S. withdrawal resulted in

the return to power by the Taliban in August.

Here's the first part of America's longest war.

What went wrong in Afghanistan?

Where we take you back to the very beginning.

Thanks for listening.

Good afternoon.

I'm speaking to you today from the same spot President George W. Bush informed our nation

of the United States military and his gun strikes against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps,

military installations of the Taliban regime.

We went to Afghanistan because of a horrific attack that happened twenty years ago.

Would you deliver justice to Ben Laden a decade ago?

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