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courtney, let me ask you about the relationship between the u.s. and the military there in terms of what is happening. i spoke with a taliban spokesperson yesterday. let me play for you something about i asked him specifically. watch. do we have permission that there will be no attacks on the americans. not now. it was for the last 14 months. that s him saying there is an agreement. there will be no attacks on the americans like there hasn t been over the past 14 months certainly during this evacuation. the u.s. military is maintaining that they won t see combat with the taliban. do we know about further negotiations with the taliban right now on all of the various fronts that the u.s. is engaged with? i know that, yes, we are focused on kabul. but there are still thousands of other afghan that s the americans want to get out and they re not able to get to the
so far not. we re looking forward to see how and get out of here with the family. but so far we contacted the embassy and we fill out the form to be evacuated. but so far we haven t heard anything. what is your reaction to what the u.s. government has said in terms of trying to get everybody out of afghanistan by the end of the month? do you feel abandoned by the u.s.? do you feel confident that they will be able to help you get out? we re very oept mystic about getting the help and getting out of here. i want to ask you finally about americans who may be
watching this. what do you say to americans who see this situation in afghanistan and say, yes, it is tragic. but it is not our tragedy? we lost so many lives. we were all working together. and right now everything is like severing gone on to sacrifices. and it is really sad. and it was our war. we worked for the government there, you no he? we hope you and your family get out of that country safely. i appreciate it. coming up, we have a lot more including the people of haiti still reeling after being hit by both an earthquake and a tropical storm within days of each other. we re going to be live on the
country by the end of this month? according to john kirby, they will tun to evacuate americans and afghan civilians until august 31st. that s when the u.s. military presence is supposed to officially end. as far as where the evacuations go, they started several days ago. they were stalled as of monday. they had a complete stoppage of all aircraft coming in and out of the airport on the civilian and military side on monday. they are flowing once again and now more than 1400 people have been evacuated. 200 are americans. the rest are afghan civilians and third country nationals taun out of the country. there was a goal to have the number of u.s. military there in kabul at about 3,000 by sunday neutral. now they re working on getting