we re talking about american citizens, american green card holders, afghan nationals who have helped us, fought alongside our soldiers. they lost over 60,000 soldiers in the 20-year conflict. we ve lossed 2500 soldiers in the conflict. as you point out we have american military members right there on the ground right now heroes going to try to save these lives of americans and afghan allies all in harm s way. they are congregating at the gates where they are being let into the airport. thousands of people at various gates around the airport. i don t want to describe which gates people are at. but i will say this. there are taliban checkpoints all around the airport that you have to proceed through just to get to the gates that they are being advised to go to. at times they re being told draw back from the gates, step back. they are told if you want to get out of the country before withdrawal happens you have to go to the gates. there is a tension.
americans will be gone. this is a hostage crisis of the biden administration construction and yesterday we heard tony blinken saying 1500 americans is in conceivable that they would be evacuated by august 31st. under any circumstance. and that doesn t let s not forget the green card holders and the siv 1 visa holders and others. so it seems that the evacuation surely will be halted or suspended and maybe it is over. peter burgen, one final question, the taliban, the u.s. one evacuationplace plan is dependent to the taliban. you ve heard the taliban say they will allow access to the airport. thoughts about evacuations post august 31st and u.s. officials have said we hope to be able to negotiate a arrangement with them to get people out after the deadline. but we should remember, folks at
evacuations are still ongoing and they are aiming to meet that august 31st deadline that joe biden has stuck by for several months. she said today, he did not reconsider that deadline, whether leaving sooner or extending it, as some have called for. and instead, citing the advice he got from his top military aides, he is sticking with that 8/31 deadline. the questions it raises about the hunt of those who called this attack, he has instructed the pentagon to draw up plans to target isis-k assets. joe biden said today there are still u.s. citizens, green card holders, applicants and other endangered afghans who are waiting and want to get out of afghanistan. so of course, the situation has become even more perilous, given the attacks that they had been warning about, did become true today with those attacks on
0 operation, which says you have some fidelity on the intelligence. that s different than a lot of what i saw. bottom line, if they had that fidelity, eventually they will find these guys. all right. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. the horrific attack outside the kabul airport. moments ago, president biden honored the heroes of the mission in afghanistan, the 12 u.s. service members killed and 15 wounded in suicide bombings. the president making a solemn vow to the isis-k terrorists responsible for the attack, and i m quoting when he said we will hunt you down and make you pay. the loss of life even greater among locals so desperate to flee the country. the health ministry in kabul now says more than 60 afghan men, women and children were killed and 140 were bounded. now we re standing by for a white house briefings. we ll have live coverage of
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