embassy staff who is working to evacuate all personnel. arthel: speaking of those evacuations, how does this new impede on that? reporter: well, it is certainly going to have the officials in washington who were looking at the possibility of reinforcing the 5,000 u.s. forces, they re going to look at that possibility again because the major concern amid all of the changing events right now on the ground in kabul, afghanistan, would be a scenario where the airport comes under attack from the taliban. we know behind the scenes there were reports about the u.s. envoy that was part of the conversation over the past year and-a-half in qatar, speaking directly total ban officials, telling to taliban officials telling them not to attack u.s. forces, we heard the president saying there would be severe consequences if there were any sport of opportunities
in place until they re able to gather more information about the reports of the airport being targeted. but it is certainly a major concern and if confirmed a major escalation because everything s on the table for the american response. arthel: yeah, and have you to wonder what sort of disadvantage this puts the american troops there and on the way there to to help with this evacuation process there. trey yingst, you re standing by for us. you ll bring us new developments as they come up and we ll come back to you, trey. thank you very much. right now we re going to go to eric. eric: for more on the developing story, congressman andy biggs is with us, republican member from arizona. congressman, you re a member of the judiciary committee and war powers caucus. let me pick up on something that trey just said. we ve seen the pictures of the afghan military driving our humvees and sophisticated equipment into iran. will iran get-and the taliban, will america s enemies now get ahold of all
arthel: we re back now with breaking news. in afghanistan, the u.s. embassy now telling americans to shelter in place. trey yingst is live in jerusalem with the very latest. what more can you tell us? reporter: arthel, this is breaking right now. the u.s. embassy, what s left of it, in afghanistan is calling on americans to shelter in place immediately, not to go the to the embassy or to the airport. according to reports, the embassy staff including the acting ambassador and his team are currently working out of the airport. there are reports of fire on this only facility that people are able to exit the country from right now in afghanistan. the reports, though, are quite broad and i do want to caution
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fighters taking over weapons that were given by the american military and the american government to afghan security forces. everything from small arms, piles of small arms in certain cities to artillery to helicopters and you have to wonder what s going to happen to the jets that are at the airport in kabul once ultimately the taliban is able to finish their takeover of the afghan capital. but the equation we re looking at right now, not only do you have the taliban, you have now al-qaida fighters who were in prison next to bagram air base, a base where american troops were at for nearly 20 years and they have access to weapons and they have u.s. forces, what they see as targets on the ground and a small group of u.s. personnel looking to evacuate. so it s not surprising that the american embassy in afghanistan has put this order in place, asking all americans to shelter