taliban or telling the taliban about getting the people through the cordons to the airport? you went right to the heart of the matter. i was shocked at president biden. i ve had more experience. i got provoked into that answer about staying beyond 31 august, if we have to get the americans out. we do not want to be putting down red lines in public. chris donahue who is now going in as a direct negotiator to the taliban military get through these things. it could possibly be that the majority of americans will be out by 31 august. it sounds highly unlikely that 18,000 interim rhetters and 20,000 commandos and 30,000 people who work for the u.s. directly, and ngo s, would all get out with their families and prior to the end of the month. this is something, that air