they say they have 6,000 people processed and ready to go as they are trying to move as swiftly as possible here. it is unclear how many of those 6,000 people will be on these 20 flights that are leaving. but president biden made clear he does not like to see any empty seats on these planes. the race to evacuate thousands from afghanistan is underway tonight. we are processing people as fast as we can. reporter: the pentagon says approximately 2,000 people were evacuated in the last 24 hours, still short of their goal to evacuate 5 to 9 thousand people per day. it is not about the math. it is about what s ready to fly. reporter: of the 2,000 evacuated overnight, the pentagon spokesperson says roughly 300 were americans. thousands more u.s. citizens remain in after fwan stan, but the pentagon can t say how many. how many american citizens remain in afghanistan? i don t know. in every country, americans
in an interview he talks about getting rid of it s not a lot of money. he s going to lower their taxes in other ways they re going to be better off. dang those hedge fund guys, they always get ahead. david on the front page of every newspaper, taliban tests the united states. it s on the front page of the wall street journal and new york times. we know they re trying to beat that back this mornings, afghan forces with the help of the united states. how significant is this moment? it s very significant. this is northern city outside the taliban s normal areas of strength and u.s. interestingly has been pulled right back into the fight in after fwan stan as have the authorized bombing