at kabul s airport and allies like italy and spain have ended their mission in afghanistan. we have the ability to include evacuees on u.s. military out of afghanistan until the very end. reporter: the walls of kabul s airports are now stained with blood, as afghanistan counts down the final days of america s longest war. sam kiley, cnn, doha. question and concerns are growing how the taliban will rule afghanistan going forward, will it be similar or vastly different compared to 20 years ago. well, cnn s ivan watson has covered afghanistan extensively over the years. and he joining us from hong kong. the taliban has said all the right things, they ve allowed women to work and calls itself
just to get the troops out, and that means there s a very narrow window to get the people into the camp and out of the country. and it seems to me it s going to be almost impossible to guarantee that the afghans who risked their lives to help us to get them out of the country. david? ian pannell reporting from the kabul airport. ian, thank you. and presidnt biden indicating he will try to meet that august 31st deadline. as you heard ian report, to get u.s. troops out, evacuations will have to end even sooner to give time to get the u.s. military out. the state department tonight saying they did make that contact with every american who checked with the u.s. embassy, but that does leave open the question, what about getting out all of the afghans who helped the u.s.? let s bring in martha raddatz tonight. martha, i was struck by what the taliban told the afghan people at this news conference today, they said, afghan nationals should head back to their homes, their jobs, their normal
so they re getting literally tens of thousands of people out every single day. if they can maintain that pace, until the end of this week, they will get a lot of people, many americans and afghans and third country nationals out before they have to start pulling the u.s. military out. now there are about 6,000 u.s. military at that airport. there is also some other u.s. embassy and staff that need to be taken out as part of the withdraw. that could take three to four days. will they try to take equipment with them when they try to leave? if it means making additional room for people to get people on the flights, we ll leave the equipment behind. they will blow it up in place. the u.s. has things like the big vehicles. they even have aircraft. there are artillery. there is counter drone equipment there called crams. defense officials have said if it means making more room for people, they will prioritize
rich edson is at the state department with the latest. rich? reporter: good afternoon, dana. secretary of state mike pompeo, other top security officials are meeting in new jersey with president trump on these discussions with the taliban. the top u.s. negotiator is back in the united states after his 8th round of discussions with taliban leaders in qatar to srepb khully try to reduce the u.s. military presence in afghanistan after 18 years of fighting. senior administration officials said there is no announcement expected on afghanistan this afternoon after this meeting. he has repeatedly said nothing is agreed to until everything is agreed to. the taliban wants the u.s. military out of afghanistan. the u.s. wants to deny afghanistan as base for extremist groups and for discussions to begin between the taliban and the elected government of afghanistan. the taliban has refused to meet with the afghan government. despite the negotiations, attacks and fighting in
this tweet is enough toic diet someone. it never is, it requires full contextual analysis of intent and mens rea, and it s something bob mueller takes notice of. any time president trump tweets he sort of hurts his legal standing and it s too bad that he s been critical of courts and critical of the rule of law. i don t think this tweet makes the case, but i don t think it hurts. rory little, thank you very much for your analysis. we appreciate it. coming up, president trump calling alabama senate candidate roy moore, saying go get em roy, as others are now having a change of heart. we ll discuss that. also an ominous warning from one senator who says it is time to start moving the families of u.s. military out of south korea as the nuclear standoff there intensifies. we are back in a moment. is time you make for yourself. aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion