kaitlyn. and again, because you have chaos unfolding, it s a much more difficult challenge that it could have been or some would say should have been. it is, but it also raising the question of how do you know when this mission is over, that you can have u.s. troops all leave if you don t know you ve gotten all the americans who are in afghanistan out. and one thing the white house has said repeatedly, and this is true. they have warned for months that americans who are in afghanistan needed to leave. because they could not secure safe passage for them. that s a warning. that s when the situation was very different and the president was saying publicly that he thought it was highly unlikely the taliban was going to be able to take over and run everything. so this is an issue, and jake sullivan, the national security adviser explained it well, i thought yesterday by saying that when you re an american and go to afghanistan, you have to register with the embassy. this is something that
disruption of our operations at the airport will be met with swift and forceful response. we re also keeping a close watch on any potential terrorist threat at or around the airport, including from the isis affiliates in afghanistan who were released from prison when the prisons were emptied, and because they are, by the way, and make everybody understand, that the isis and afghanistan are the have been the sworn enemy of the taliban. i ve said all along, we re going to retain a laser focus on our counterterrorism mission. working in close coordination with our allies and our partners. and all those who have an interest in sharing stability in the region. secretary blinken is with me today, met this morning with our nato allies in consultation about the way forward so that afghanistan cannot be used in the future as a terrorist base of attack to attack the united states or our allies.
under difficult circumstances. i cannot promise what the final outcome will be or what it will be that it will be without risk of loss. but as commander in chief, i can assure you that i will mobilize every resource necessary. armed forces are carrying out this mission. they re incredible. as we continue to work the logistics of evacuation, we re in constant contact with the taliban working to ensure civilians have safe passage to the airport. we are particularly focused on our engagements on making sure every american who wants to leave can get to the airport. where we have been seeing challenges with americans for americans, we have thus far been able to resolve them. we ve been able we ve made, look we ve made clear to the taliban that any attack, any attack on our forces or
it s quickly, and then you ll get chaos. the diplomats who sent the cable, offering recommendations to get people out faster and like kaylee reported, also my own reporting that the administration has been speaking to colombia about possibly taking 4,000 of the afghans temporarily. now there s a scramble, what to do with them. how can we process them when the embassy is functioning on a bare phones capacity? now we re having to deal with this sort of chaotic situation. you have the taliban outside the airport for now we hear that they re not fiering at these people, and it could change at any time. a dangerous situation. very important reporting. thank you for sharing your time. we know you ll stay on top of the story. remember at the top of the hour, we showed you photos of the baby being handed to a
resources, the aircraft, the personnel, the processing capability, and, of course, the very tough issue of getting afghans through those taliban checkpoints outside the airport. the u.s. continuing to talk to the taliban about trying to get that part of the process moving more freely, getting the taliban to back off from their very violent tactics. but right now it is hard to see where all of this goes. there are less than two weeks to august 31st which continues to be the stated biden administration timeline, deadline for getting out. if they decide they want to stay later for all practical purposes, they are going to have to get the taliban to agree to it. david, this is the backdrop as the president prepares to speak to the american people. any moment now, be his second formal address to the american people since kabul fell. he also had the interview with abc this week.