pressuring the government and finding ways to make more evacuations happen? >> so first of all, congress actually authorized an emergency appropriation just about 30 days ago seeing this problem coming. i can't say we saw the taliban offensive moving this fast, but the administration actually does have additional resources with which to use to bring these evacuees from afghanistan back home. as someone who has long supported american military withdrawal i think the president has made the right decision to temporarily surge forces to bring them home. it probably does mean we have to have some dialogue with the taliban as richard engel reported, right now the taliban seems to be at least standing aside as we seek to get some of our close allies out of the country. and in the short term it is probably going to necessitate us having some conversation with the taliban to make it clear to