white house flat footed. on saturday after pulling out almost all of the 2500 service members there when he took office, president biden said he would deploy more than more u.s. troops, 5,000 now total for the limited mission of getting americans and others fleeing sa safely out of kabul warning of a, quote, swift and strong u.s. response if the taliban interfere. with the constant thereon of helicopters overhead sources tell cnn this morning a total of americans from our embassy in kabul is well under way and should be completed by tuesday. that is a sharp turn-around from six weeks ago when president biden called it highly unlikely the taliban would overrun the country an assessment that even at the time struck many experts in biden's own administration as unrealistic. now as american diplomats rush to shred embassy documents and escape it seems shocking that president biden could have been so wrong. the u.s. has not yet been able to evacuate the 18,000 afghan