civilian get back up again and the taliban let the people leave. we know some of the people who are still in the country sleeping someplace efrls night and hiding and keeping a low profile. it s a dangerous situation. nick paton walsh, thank you. joining us now is cedric layton a cnn analyst and prior member of the joint staff at the pentagon. ties nice to have you. you heard him talking about the afghans who could be left behind. i understand you re speaking to someone in kabul about that very subject. what are you hearing? well, laura, that s exactly right. what i m hearing is that people that sib recipients are not able to get their visas. there s no mechanism for them, apparently, while they re still in kabul to get the visas they can print it out or put it on their phones and go to the airport. so there s that problem. there s a problem of getting to the airport and then the other thing that these people are dealing with is the fact, and