it s wireless so good, it keeps one upping itself. tonight cnn is learning that president biden is still deciding whether to extend the august 31st deadline for removing all u.s. troops from afghanistan. pentagon officials say that they need to know by tomorrow in order to have enough time to get all troops and equipment out of kabul airport by the 31st. also tonight, the house select committee investigating the january 6th attack on the capitol expected to ask telecommunications companies to preserve phone records of
pentagon press secretary john kirby hinting at more. on occasion, where there s a need and there s a capability to meet that need, our commanders on the ground are doing what they feel they need to do to help americans reach the airport. reporter: for now the u.s. embassy in kabul is telling afghan special immigrant visa applicants and evacuees not to come to the airport until they re told. with potentially little more than a week less of this evacuation effort, fear of a totalitarian taliban regime is growing. the brother of an afghan interpreter received these letters from the taliban. a court date for helping u.s. troops and shielding his brother, and then a notification of his death sentence. these court decisions are final, and you will not have the right to object, the third and final letter reads. you chose this path for yourself, and your death is imminent, god willing. there are still some 13,000 people at the airport and more trying to get through every day. but a new ter
where with all to get them out. reporter: the taliban warning there will be consequences if it takes longer. one afghan security member left dead under scoring the situation as the u.s. tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. we re pushing the limits to do everything we can to get every single evacuee out of kabul. reporter: in order to speed up evacuations, the pentagon activating the civil reserve air fleet for only the third time using system aircraft from commercial carriers like united and american to move evacuees from the middle east on wards. for now, though, the u.s. prioritizing getting american citizens out, several thousand have left the country already the pentagon says, a senior state department official says there are still several thousand more. the pentagon acknowledging helicopters left the airport not once but twice to pick up eva evacuees. john kirby hinting at more. on occasion, where there is a need and there is a capability to meet that n
evacuation from afghanistan. in the days remaining, we believe we have the wherewithal to get out the american citizens who want to leave kabul. reporter: taliban warning there will be consequences if it takes any longer. a firefight at the airport sunday that left one afghan security member dead underscoring the tense security situation as the u.s. tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. we are pushing the limits to do everything we can to get every single evacuee out of kabul. reporter: in order to speed up evacuations, the pentagon activating the civil reserve air fleet for only the third time, using 18 aircraft from commercial carriers like united and american to move evacuees from the middle east onwards. for now, though, the u.s. prioritizing getting american citizens out. several thousand have left the country already, the pentagon says. a senior state department official says there are still several thousand more. the pentagon acknowledging helicopters ha
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