joe biden was talking about that, pressed on that. so far, of course, the united states has airlifted about 5000 people out of afghanistan. that leaves around 75,000 american citizens and afghan support staff still to go, with just two weeks left, less than two weeks on the calendar, before the self—imposed deadline. it's starting to look, even given the accelerated pace of the evacuations, that the us won't meet its deadline. joe biden was pressed on that in the interview with abc, and he somewhat reluctantly conceded that it might be that us troops remain in afghanistan beyond that american deadline of august 31, in order to get all the americans currently in the country out of it. and this is only likely, i think, to fuel criticism ofjoe biden�*s approach to this withdrawal. the chaotic scenes, of course,