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leaders. those conversations have been happening at sullivan s level as well as the level of the secretary of state. that s different from what s happening with his foreign counterparts in germany, france and england. all of those heads in states have been in touch with each other. very unusual. jeremy diamond, thanks so much. cnn s nick paton walsh joins us now live on the phone from afghanistan s capital, kabul. the biden administration says that their priority is making sure that the kabul airport is safe and secure in order to get people out to evacuate. what s the reality on the ground at the airport? reporter: yeah. i ve got into the airport from this afternoon, and it s exceptionally difficult task even for clearly foreign western reports like myself caught in the crowd up against a gate crushed, frankly. we were trying to see if we could speak to the u.s. marines to let me and the people with me in, and one of them to me very clearly i can t let you over simply because i th
for women s education, to make it clear to all the people in this country that there is a new direction. because the other woman fazollah, as we called her, she told me that her sister went out to buy some milk the other day and the grocer at the grocery store said you should be wearing proper covering. he never would ve said that two weeks ago. but now because the taliban is in town, people adopt their posture. they change their behavior to please what they think is the sort of prevailing lord or ruler at the time. and that s the real problem here. the taliban can t just say these things in passing. they have to actively show by example that there have been fundamental changes in the way they re going to govern. and i would say from people i have spoken to, not many have a huge amount of faith that that is really going to happen. clarissa ward live in kabul, afghanistan, thank you for your brave reporting, as always. joining us now to discuss the
administration about to back boosters. plus, a desperate and unprecedented surge at the u.s./mexico border. we talk to migrants who told us why they ve continued to make this incredibly dangerous journey. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our world lead. the white house this afternoon attempting to defend how it handled the u.s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan as the taliban solidifies its grip on that country, and americans and allies rush to try to safely evacuate. this afternoon national security adviser jake sullivan said that the taliban has agreed to give civilians safe passage to the kabul airport where the u.s. military is hoping to speed up the pace of evacuation flights within the next 24 hours. this striking image obtained by defense one shows nearly 650 afghans packed inside a u.s. military cargo plane. they were safely evacuated on sunday to qatar.
or efforts by the taliban to interfere with the evacuation process. but remember, it s not just the united states evacuating from kabul right now. you also over the past 24 hours have seen the canadians work to evacuate their personnel, also a number of u.s. allies including the british, trying to make sure their ambassador and embassy staff are safe amid the changing and volatile situation but it is really a nightmare scenario for the biden administration to have the acting ambassador and personnel at the embassy come under attack from the taliban. it s difficult to really pars through the information that we re getting right now and that is why all we can confirm at the moment is that a shelter in place order has been called for every american in kabul, afghanistan right now. they are calling on americans not to go to the embassy or to the airport but to remain put amid these reports about fire on