Getting out. he just said americans. that s a key distinction here. there are many thousands, as we pointed out in our report, and hundreds of thousands of afghans who work with us, who are not covered by that, pledge you are likely almost certainly being left behind at the august 31st a few days after, you already saw the military beginning to pull, out the troops they ve sent into effectuate the evacuation, you ll see more that in the days to come, which will limit the number of people who will be getting on planes and getting out of there before next week. senator mccaskill, to the point john just made, does the biden administration have enough friends in washington, enough friends in their party? to help them make their basic three points, that trump agreed to this deal, that the presidents of afghanistan skipped town, and that any early up of this evacuation, would have caused absolute
Bin laden organized 9/11 attacks. can you guarantee that this country will never again be a base for terrorism? [interpreter] osama bin laden became an issue for americans, he wasn t afghanistan, although there was no proof that he was. involved now we have given promises that afghan soil will not be used against anyone. you still don t believe that afghanistan that osama bin laden was involved? we have no proof that he was involved. so it seems now that even after all of this, you are accepting no responsibility. [interpreter] there was no justification for this war it was excuse for. wore with [end of translation] how are you feeling right now after 20 years and the americans are leaving? [interpreter] the withdrawal is almost finished, it was our happiest moment. we [end of translation] they all said they want the taliban to open a new chapter of relations with the united states, including exchanging
Peter i m told your back and it s glad to have you back indeed. have you any indication in your reporting, that our embrace of the 31 august deadline, has any wiggle room, at all. as we speculated last, night can we treat the 31st as the day when all of our passengers are out, in the military can hope then for some slop time to get vehicles, aircraft, personnel in all those c-17s off the ramp? they seem to be pretty firm and saying that s not going to happen. at least if they have any say in. it doesn t mean it s not going to happen, but that s what they re seeing right, now that s the message they re sending to the taliban because they don t want the taliban to be taking shots at americans, or even our afghan allies. as we re trying to get them out. the president did say the other day that he d asked the pentagon for continuous plans in case we had not completed but we need to by august 31st. that take you short of secretary blinken, said there is no deadline for americans
Kabul. the taliban is stressing, it is time for its the u.s. and its allies to pack up and get. out traveling civilian planes are evacuating vulnerable afghans but there is a huge bottleneck at transit hubs. in doha, qatar, thousands are crowded in holding areas. temperatures well over 100 degrees. it was so hot there. i think was four times hotter. in kabul, the taliban are helping speed up the evacuations. this time, keeping people out handing out food and. water but many afghans are feeling abandoned, especially women and girls who were press when the taliban rule 20 years ago. now the taliban promised to be different. but have they changed or are they just playing nice until the americans leave? tonight, i met the taliban spokesperson the united states is evacuating, and it is taking out americans who worked
Panic on the ground, you can t move c-17s in and out, and fill them with americans and afghans and not gather attention. it s kind of ironic that people should say he should ve quietly evacuated, you don t quietly evacuee. several hundred thousand people, without the taliban, and others on the ground knowing what s going on. the afghan government knew, for a long time, that both this president and the previous president, wanted to get out. and the lack of planning, the lack of real insight, is not joe biden s fault, they re way more afghans who aren t taliban who are taliban, and they decided they were not going to stand and fight, and that was their decision, now, honestly brian, there are some criticisms coming from democrats, but i don t know how, this ever was going to get and smoothly. i don t think it was possible. knowing where afghanistan is and when it represented, and frankly, i don t have any