Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper. We start with breaking news in our world lead.

Any moment, President Biden will address the nation from the White House about the chaotic

and rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. Today, the Pentagon announced nearly 1,000

additional U.S. forces heading into that nation's capital of Kabul that makes more than 6,000

now in total. Just to be clear, after ordering the withdrawal of most of the 2,500 service

members who were in Afghanistan when President Biden took office, Mr. Biden is now ordering

more than double that to go back into the country to help Americans and others escape,

a clear indication of inept planning. And a suggestion that President Biden was perhaps

not heating the advice of the national security and intelligence experts who told him that

the Afghan government could fall quite quickly, as was predicted, and as we covered months

ago.

Many of the American troops will be there to help manage desperate scenes such as this

one, thousands of Afghans swarming the Kabul airport and attempting to flee the country

as the Taliban take full control. The madness at points devolving into violence, officials

telling CNN that U.S. forces shot and killed two armed Afghan men who fired on them at

the airport. Videos also show Afghans running toward departing Air Force C-130s, trying

to grab a hold of the airplane fuselage as the planes start taking off presumably these

Afghans desperate to escape before experiencing the wrath of the Taliban. Even more horrifying

and graphic we should warn, our other video clips that appear to show bodies falling to

the ground from a U.S. Air Force plane as the plane gains altitude.

And Biden reportedly told his advisors he wanted to avoid tragic and humiliating images

like those from the fall of Saigon after the humiliating U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam.

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