say, just came from a u.s. military official speaking to courtney kuby and others at the pentagon. it s about that convoy. the convoy now estimated to be 40 miles long with hundreds of armored vehicles and tanks. according to a senior military official, the convoy has slowed. it has been plagued with logistical problems, fuel shortages, food shortages and appears to have been perhaps a deliberate decision by the russians to regroup, reassess and take a pause before they continue. no indication that it is stopping. no indication it is not continuing to come to this city and carry out an attack but it has slowed and that the quote, if i remember correctly is we re not seeing it move very much. so, that, at least, is a temporary repreevl for the people of this city and one more thing before you move on. about the attack on the
russia doesn t own it, ukraine doesn t own it. russia is overwhelming it but the ukrainian air force is still able to fly. same with in the ports and the black sea. but the reality is the russian military has at least 10 landing ships down in that area. they will likely gain superiority of that space as well in the coming hours. courtney kuby at her post. thank you so much. and joining us is former cia director, director of defense in the obama administration and former white house chief of staff to president clinton. thank you very much for being with us. this is a dire situation, certainly for president zelenskyy, for the government. the stated purpose, according to vladimir putin, is to topple the government and take control of ukraine. i don t think there s any question that the russians are
fly into kabul unless they know that it s safe to do so. now our understanding is that the qataris are pushing the taliban to accept an international presence at the airport to oversee security procedures, but the taliban are the new rulers of afghanistan. they are rejecting any international presence at the airport because they see it as a violation of their sovereignty, but what s interesting here is we ve been talking over the last couple of weeks about the u.s. and the taliban, enemies of 20 years, finding ways to cooperate and the airport might be one place where they can work together because the taliban want this airport open, too. they want to show that they are the legitimate government of a functioning state, and to have a functioning state you need a functioning airplane. chris? without a doubt. courtney, many people are skeptical actually that the taliban will ever be stable or allow stable passage going forward for those 100 to 200 americans, for the afghans who are stil
joining me now nbc new correspondent raf sanchez live from doha, qatar and courtney kuby is live in washington. i know you have information on the reopening of the airport. what can you tell us? chris, a source familiar with the matter tells us that a qatari technical team flew into kabul today for talks with the taliban about what it s going to take to get hamid karzai international airport up and running again, and this really matters to the u.s. for exactly that reason you just said. the biden administration needs that airport open so it can start getting both americans and afghan allies out. there is no timeline right now for when the airport might reopen, and you can imagine that is a whole range of very complicated issues here. some of them are technical. can the taliban run an air traffic control system? but a lot of them are to do with security. civilian airlines do not want to
c2 smart bed is only $899. plus, 0% interest for 48 months. ends monday. a symbolic end to the u.s. mission in afghanistan today. 50 days before the u.s. is scheduled to complete with the draw, general austin scott miller stepped down today nearly three years after he took over this post. transferring authority to general frank mckenzie. miller s departure comes two months before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks which led to the u.s. to invade afghanistan. before he left afghanistan, general milly talked with my colleague courtney kuby. you said you made a lifetime of memories here. can you chair the memories with us? i wasn t talking necessarily just memories. it s the people. it s the friends i met here. and that s also within the