airport opening and functioning if there are afghans, americans who need to get out beyond the end of the month. there certainly will be. it email be interesting to see how america executes on the promise made yesterday to get them out. geoff bennett, thanks so much. joe, that s the question now, on september 1st, if the troops are gone, there s still americans or allies there what does that look like based on what secretary blinken said yesterday, how does the world do it and what s the united states role in that. let s bring in he len cooper and sam stein and david leonard to get those answers. helene, the president is holding strong to the august 31st deadline, wants to get the troops out of there, and yet we see a package that there s