critics, it is from democratic lawmakers as well who are typically their allies. so right now they are focusing on how this departure is still under way, and they are saying that is their primary mission, is making sure they get everyone out of there safely given the conditions on the ground that you just saw from clarissa. and we did just get an update from the white house. they say today that they did evacuate 1,100 u.s. citizens, u.s. permanent residents and their families on 13 flights. they believe now that they ve established that flow, they ve got flights actually leaving the airport after being temporarily suspended, that it s only going to go up from there, anderson. i think this is a critical role the white house is playing right now in trying to make sure they patch up a lot of the fallout that s happened given the way this takeover by the taliban happened and just how quickly it surprised the white house. they are trying to ramp this up, though of course we should note ther
american pullout appears to be accelerating from a country if not on the brink of collapse, it s certainly falling. cl clarissa ward is on the ground in kabul. what s the latest you can tell us about the plans the u.s. government has put into motion about the american embassy? the situation is really going from bad to worse. 12 provincial capitals now under the control of the taliban. among them, harat, the third largest city in the country. also, kandahar appears to be on the brink of falling. this would be a huge one. it s a strategically important city. also the birthplace of the taliban, so it has a lot of symbolism behind it. because they re seeing how quickly things are unraveling, the u.s. state department and pentagon now saying they re going to be sending 3,000 u.s. troops in the next 24 to 48 hours. their mission is to simply help the withdrawal of u.s. embassy
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panel of international correspondents nick paton walsh, cl clarissa ward and arwa damon. what is happening in europe? essentially, i think you re seeing these moments like in italy is purely a vote on constitutional reform. these moments in which perhaps the electorate who have seen the choices they have in front of them for elections being pretty much about shades of gray. i ve always seen the last two years of choices being a slicked back hair in a suit. go along with your sort of choice of pr spokesman depending on your mood that day. these choices like brexit a lot more sweeping. as we saw, i think, large numbers of people in britain who felt disenfranchised and live in rural areas and broader part of that sweep of reform in urban areas want to trash the train
reporting we just showed a moment of it where you were trapped inside a house for more than 24 hours as the war was going on around you and maybe we can pull up some more of this. we can see that it was just happening out there. but, clarissa, you have been there, that s what the generals say, you have to deny them territory because otherwise the caliphate will grow and if you deny them territory that is somehow connected to detingui distinkuishing them. isis is in a worse position and diminishing territory is the only caliphate and that was a huge recruitment tool. there s no question that they are in a much worse position than they were. at the same time, what arwa is saying is very important. all the geo and political components this intense feeling