But it's my privilege to bring in Mike Morelle.

He is the former acting and deputy director of the CIA.

He's got a great podcast and that podcast is called

Intelligence Matters and he joins us now.

Mike, welcome back.

Brian, it is fantastic to be with you again.

I've always enjoyed being on your show.

Well, I appreciate it.

We've been rolling your sound bites against your will

for the last few days to get your assessment

on this unprecedented situation.

Mike, if I want to you July 15th and I say,

it looks like we're really getting out of Afghanistan.

Do you think we'll do it smoothly?

What would you have said?

I would have said, based on not talking to the folks

I was talking to on July 15th, I would have said,

yeah, this will go smoothly because they've

had months to prepare for this.

The preparation actually should have

started before the president made his decision.

But once the president made the decision in April,

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