Thank you, Anderson. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime. Let's look again at that picture of the last service member to leave Afghanistan earlier today. This will be in history books.

Pentagon just put it out. They say the war has ended. Army Major General Christ on a huge commanding general, the 82nd year born boarding a C-17 to depart Kabul, lifted off at 11.59 PM local just before the clock struck midnight.

So that means it's August 31st in Afghanistan right now, right? Remember that date, arbitrary set by the Biden administration. It's about 530 in the morning there now.

Taliban knows the United States is gone and is celebrating with gunfire.

Now the government can tell us that the war has ended and they can put out the picture of the last soldier they say, but we all know it isn't over.

Okay, two reasons. Now what we do know that is true is that America has lost the last clear chance to cut a different deal or to maintain a force in Afghanistan until everyone is out or to reclaim the Bogram Air Base to secure exits and to keep an eye on one of the most if not the most fertile terror spots in the world.

So you can say this is ended, but it's certainly not over two reasons. First, the immediate as many as 200 Americans are still there. And look, I have never trusted the numbers not because I'm cynical. I'm just being skeptical from a practical perspective.

I don't know how they know how many people there are on the ground and they have said themselves even at the White House level that they can't be sure. So they say 200, 100, 200, Americans are still on the ground who wanted to get out and couldn't.

An unknown number of families who believed America when they were told that they would be saved if they worked with US troops are also still there.

The concept of no man left behind is centuries old and it is a concrete commitment that inspires loyalty. Do we still believe in that commitment?

The president and his secretary of state say yes, they point to an unprecedented evacuation that freed over 120,000. And that was something.

And it was something impressive. We've never done anything like it before yet. Why did it have to happen? That's something that must be in the analysis as well.

And on top of what the president says, the secretary of state says those who were left behind will still get out even without US troops being there.

Even with them being in the grip of one of the most barbaric groups in the world. Here's the secretary of state.

If an American in Afghanistan tells us that they want to stay for now and then in a week or a month or a year they reach out and say I've changed my mind, we will help them leave.

We've worked intensely to evacuate and relocate Afghans who work alongside us and are at a particular risk of reprisal. We've gotten many out.

But many are still there. We will keep working to help them. Our commitment to them has no deadline.

We will hold the Taliban to its pledge to let people freely depart Afghanistan.

The Taliban is committed to let anyone with proper documents leave the country in a safe and orderly manner.

You learn in this business that things have to be repeated. Can't just say things once. So for the record, Biden didn't get us into this situation.

Many presidents have a hand in what should be blamed if you want to look at Afghanistan as a failure. Certainly the most recent iteration was Trump deciding to negotiate with the Taliban.

That absolutely undercut the confidence of the government and hastened the decline.

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