rapidly changed. this kind of indication from within the administration also shows the degree to which this is viewed as a crisis both of optics, politics and then, of course, all the humanitarian pieces of it which, of course, are most important. but there wouldn t be this sort of bleeding out of criticism and, hey, we told you so if this wasn t a dire circumstance. that s just one measure of how critical this is for the biden white house and the president s leadership and even ultimately his legacy. here they acknowledge that this is an hour-by-hour situation on the ground. and that the efforts on operational push right now. how to deal not with what happened before, but to try to repair as quickly as possible the functioning of the evacuations, obtaining order. all of those kind of things are their focus right now. there are big questions still to be determined. like americans who are not in the immediate vicinity of