he said he wants those planes cleared for takeoff and is furious at the government s delay and inaction. it simply incredible. this mother and her three children, the state department didn t get them out, these veterans did. course the state department taking the credit, and this woman interestingly, she says the state department told her to go to the airport and when she got there the taliban and put a gun to her head. but i thought president biden told us of the taliban was guaranteeing safe passage to americans. that doesn t appear so, emily. emily: this story is so disheartening on multiple levels. at every moment and every junction we have nothing but lies coming out of the biden administration and i thought actually texas congressman ronnie jackson it quite well. he said that the only thing that biden administration seems to be good at is putting itself on the back for a job that was horribly done. as he points out, my constituents were left behind and then when veterans got
to the airport but there was lots of taliban checkpoints that they couldn t make it to the airport and he got beat up. then they go back home. evacuation flights out of kabul beginning to slow down. over 13,000 people made it out yesterday. 6,000 fewer than the day before. overall more than 95,000 have been evacuated since august 14th, the day before kabul fell to the taliban. $800 million u.s. embassy in kabul abandoned and the taliban are providing safe passage to americans. but some wonder if that s the case, there are still dangerous helicopter missions. last night during the period of darkness, there was an operation to be able to go out and safely evacuate people back into kabul. a veteran in the ranger regimen described the scene at
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.
efforts to evacuate thousands of americans and afghan allies out of the country. 1800 people have been evacuated in the last 24 hours. a total of nearly 6,000 since saturday, but the u.s. embassy in kabul is now warning that it cannot ensure safe passage to americans to the kabul airport. we re covering, of course, all of this from the white house and the pentagon to the state department. let s begin with our barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, that is very significant to hear from the president, and george stephanopoulos gave him an opportunity to clarify, and yet he reiterated, no, never, was he told by these top generals to keep any sort of force on the ground, quote, that he can recall. is that the case given even cnn s own reporting this spring and summer? reporter: well, if the president says he can t recall it, i m not sure we can get inside his head and see what he actually does remember about all this. what we do know is that top commanders thought they should have the o
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