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connected, who are not really educated for that matter. the they re in their early 20s, late teens. they re power hungry. all they know is how to fight. they ve been trained for that their entire lives. the way of forcing the rule of law is with muscle. a woman opened her passport and said i m an american citizen and she was beat. they are beating them with whips and their butt of rifles. yes, there may be top communication with the top brass of the taliban. but that means nothing to the foot soldiers on the ground. i appreciate your perspective on this and your reporting on what s been happening there. joining me now is a press coordinator for the former afghanistan president. first off, i know that you have
0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didn t have the capacity to take any more people. this has its situation outside the airport gets more desperate. thousands of afghans hoping for a chance to get inside and get on a plane out of the country. the president defended his situation to get out of afghanistan in a report that nearly two dozen diplomats at the u.s. embassy in kabul sent a cable to tony blinken warning of a possible taliban takeover and urged an airlift operation. i made the decision, the buck stops with me. i took the consensus opinion. it would not occur if it occurred
especially if you knew there was an option to go. that s the big question. we want to bring in alvin stone, he s on the phone, the press coordinator for the expedition to antarctica. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. the spirits were very high, especially through the new year, but i bet they are glad to be heading home. there was pure joy when they saw the helicopter coming in to land. the moral has been high. i ve been impressed, actually. talk about the rescue effort. did it go smoothly and without incident? it changed quite a bit. the initial plan was actually to fly them to the chinese ice breaker and take them by barge to the aurora australia.