as cruel and brutal as the taliban still is. i don t know that there is much appetite. americans stopped caring about afghanistan a long time ago. and a lot of americans are looking up saying why are we still there any way? so yeah, when the news covers, and we have images of this kind of chaos and this kind of, you know, human story playing out, it creates pressure. but i don t think there s going to be a tremendous pressure on the administration to do more than it s doing now. david, thank you very much. doug, thanks, appreciate it. outfront next, afghans who came to the aid of american troops, they re now left begging for help as they fear for their lives. they re going to cut our heads off if they mind my location. i m going to speak to the man in that recording, next. plus, three fully vaccinated u.s. senators testing positive for covid. the cases appear unrelated. are we seeing the need for a booster shot play out in
troops out safely was number one. getting additional americans out, which we don t have a complete handle on, and then those supportive of the war effort. that becomes a big question mark about what the u.s. is capable of doing as it s leaving. just quickly, david. when the president commits that he s going to stay there until all americans out, he s not committing the same for the afghans who helped the american effort. how much stomach or patience do american people have for troops staying longer to get americans out and afghans out or is that the very rough reality, that they don t? i think it s the brutal reality. the reality has been true for over a decade now, maybe 15 years. i remember covering this from the earliest days. all the efforts to save the women of afghanistan from the taliban, that s not why we went. and that s not ultimately what the enterprise was about, as cruel and brutal as that, is and
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this. and i have to say i m really impacted by the story we just heard by ayesha who is at the airport. add it to, david, in this moment of crisis, we don t know how many americans are still left in afghanistan tonight. i am wondering how that is possible. what did you think when you heard that today? well, it s horrible. the stories are horrible to hear. this is a tragic situation, and a horrifying in so many instances. but i think certainly this was something that could be anticipated. there s no clean way to withdraw in a country like afghanistan. and that s what you re seeing. i think the priority by this administration, i think he says it, which is they wanted to get out of afghanistan. don t forget when, during the obama presidency, it was his vice president, joe biden, who
in for erin burnett. diplomats warned in july they believed the country could rapidly deteriorate and they feared a catastrophe after u.s. troops pull out at the end of august. and tonight, there is chaos and dysfunction in afghanistan, as the u.s. struggles to get tens of thousands of people out of the country. officials today saying over the past five days, just 7,000 people have been flown to safety. these are some we are showing you of the lucky ones. the afghans able to board a flight. but they represent just a fraction of the tens of thousands whose lives are now in limbo. and as it stands tonight, we still don t know how many americans have left afghanistan, and how many remain. this is the u.s., this is afghan. i do not have a breakdown. i suspect over time, as our manifesting process gets more