evacuations in the city of kabul, has the u.s. military did any revacuations of any sort outside of the city of kabul because there are a lot of mesh americans not in kabul. i ll let the general take that. when you talk about evacuations, you mean going out and we continue to closely coordinate to ensure the safe arrival of americans and others on h-kai. so we have not gone any further air operations this time but as i said earlier we continue to ensure the capabilities that we ve had and as required that we re able to do so. is there a plan in place to help extract americans who are outside of kabul at this point? we are always planning and assessing what needs to be done to help americans get to h-kai
it s meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. we ll get right to it. one week after the taliban took total control of kabul, the crisis at kabul airport remains a scene of chaos and panic. fearful crowds are now being harassed and menaced by fighters. they re still desperately trying to get into the airport and out of afghanistan. now, on top of all of this, there s an isis threat against americans in the area as well. so we re going to get right to our chief foreign correspondent richard engel. he s been covering this. obviously was in kabul. now in doha, ka ta, where a lot of these planes from kabul are landing. richard, who is making it out? reporter: nobody really knows. people who could get onto the base, could convince the marines that they had a sympathetic case. some have paperwork. some do not.
continue until august 31st. it stands to reason, i know the situation has changed a lot in the last week, but it stands to reason the u.s. military would still have the authority, if not the to carry out strikes if requested by the afghan military. i guess at this point, they have not been requested, is what we re told, right? well, the general said there has been no request. i just want to stress that the military mission that we are executing is a non-combatant military operation. last 24 hours, taliban leadership named the officials in charge of securing the streets and city of kabul. has that been part of the changing situation on the ground and making it less safe for americans to travel to the airport? again, i m not detailing the threat assessments and what the intelligence is saying. it is fluid and dynamic. what i would tell you is we continue to have regular communication with taliban leaders there in kabul,
continue until august 31st. so it stands to reason i know the situation has changed a lot in the last week but it stands to reason the u.s. military would still have the authority to carry out strikes if requested by the afghan military. but i guess at this point they have not been requested is what we re told, right? the general said there has been no request. i just want to stress the military mission that we are executing now is a non-combatant evacuation operation. that is what we re focused on. in the last 24 hours, taliban leadership have named those in charge of securing the streets and city of kabul. has that been part of the changing situation on the ground and making it less safe for americans to try and travel to the airport? again, i m not going to detail the threat assessments and what the intelligence is saying. it is very fluid and dynamic. what i would tell you is that we continue to have regular communication with taliban leaders there in kabul,
it wasn t a decision i arrived at lightly but i m grateful there are still men and women who put their selves in harms way to protect our communities. i hope there s a swing back and we continue to build this profession and keep it at a pace we can keep up with. neil: thank you for your time, best of luck. jillian: incredible rescue in the bronx, a brave nypd officer jumped into action after a man falls onto the subway tracks. the officer and another man dropped onto the tracks helping the man to safety moments before the train rolled in. look at this. police and the man suffered a medical emergency lost consciousness calling him to fall. 23 minutes after the hour the taliban firing on crowds protesting the terrorist takeover is the protests in kabul continues. next two afghan national stuck behind enemy lines this really trying to get out.