expecting to hear anything from secretary of state blinken today. he is going straight from the airport to dinner with the amir of qatar and secretary of defense lloyd austin also here and the facts that the leader of this relatively small middle eastern country is having dinner tonight with the two most senior members of president biden's cabinet shows you how indebted the biden administration feels to qatar right now for pulling this evacuation off. in terms of what is happening in mazar sharif is confusing and the state department is not doing very much to make it less confusing. their line basically is we don't have people on the ground. we don't control the air space and these are private charter planes so we don't really know what's going on here. we do know as you said, there are a number of flights waiting to take off and the taliban have said they are not going to let them go, and so even without knowing all the details, even without knowing how many or