essentially providing life spoet for the afghan pill terry and government. we have problems at home with the economyt and covid and infrastructure and ay million other thing. and that s where he thinks our focus should be, 20 years later. as andrea was saying, we have accomplished the mission of getting bin laden out and al qaeda out. the pictures is raising questions about the veg of the biden administration and of the last 20 years of how u.s. failures equated. it is not just the u.s., obviously allies were involved, too, but how that s failures added up to this moment. want to go to kabul where richard engle is standing by. he has been reporting on the activity there allpo day. richard, what is the situation in kabul? well, we are still seeing the evacuation. we are hearing now more solid ground that it is going to take three days, and that the u.s.
0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, it s important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. yeah. the current plach is according to defense officials is to continue to flow those people in. but this is all happening so in quickly, you have to wonder in the next 48, 72 hours f they are not in there, are they going to have time to get all of them in. a looking at pictures, with helicopter evacuations from the green zoneli to the airport, th are looking to get this place cleared out faster than it would probably take those extra troops to get in there. let s reset. it is sunday, august 15th.h. i m ali vel