people and bring them to the airport. it s the third time this type of rescue mission has been launched despite the pentagon insisting the taliban are granting safe passage to americans. last night, during the period of darkness, there was an operation to be able to go out and safely evacuate evacuees back into kabul. yesterday, two members of congress seth moulton and peter meijer, a democrat and a republican, both combat veterans, flew unannounced into kabul airport in the middle of the chaotic evacuation. stunning u.s. forces on the ground who had to divert critical resources to protect them. having them there? there was certainly a pull off of the kinds of missions we were trying to do to pull off that visit. to be clear congressman moulton and congressman meyer they took seats that would have been for refugees leaving and they took time away from the mission. they certainly took time away from what we had been planning to do that day.
El estremecedor relato de una familia que en medio del caos logró escapar de los talibanes
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are being prevented by the taliban from accessing the airport. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. even before afghanistan s national government fell, tens of thousands of afghans were leaving the country every week according to the u.n. an afghan living in canada, his sister was one of three female journalists killed by gunmen back in march. that happened just a few months after another female journalist from the same tv station was killed. a total of four out of the ten women who worked there. their family is still in afghanistan, and he fears for their safety. but he said he wants to tell the world what life was like for regular afghans, and here is some of our conversation. do you think that your family might be in even more danger because their daughter was a journalist there in kabul? i mean, what s their situation right now? they as i said, we are hiding.
and where they are. reporter: flights in kabul were paused for at least eight hours, as the u.s. scrambled to find refuge for afghans as other locations surged to capacity. we paused flights in kabul a few hours this morning to make sure we could process the arriving evacuees at the transit points. reporter: biden claimed no americans have had trouble reaching the gates of the crowded kabul airport. we know of no circumstance where american citizens are carrying american passport are trying to get through to the airport. reporter: that account contradicting reports on the ground from cnn s own team. anyone who says that any american can get in here is, you know, i mean, technically it s possible. but it s extremely difficult. and it is dangerous. reporter: biden s latest remarks follow days of defensiveness over the botched drawdown. there will be plenty of time to criticize and second guess when this operation is over. but now now, i m focused on
of brutality that makes many afghans scared to stay in the country. on friday, the pentagon confirmed it had flown 169 americans by helicopter from a hotel near the airport after large crowds blocked access to the gates. it s the first-known rescue of americans outside the airport perimeter. the first flights of evacuees have begun arriving in the united states. now, we don t know how many americans were among the passengers. but a source tells cnn that about 1,500 people who evacuated from kabul in recent days are expected to arrive in the washington area this weekend. and others are being flown to the u.s. military base in germany until permanent relocations can be arranged. so we are getting a picture of just how dangerous it can be outside kabul s airport. disturbing, new video has emerged and we want to warn you it is graphic. a local employee of a u.s.-based ngo captured images of two people wounded on the ground outside the airport thursday morning. it was filmed while several
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