so what we re seeing is that we have to do so much of what we have seen. we re going to try to help the afghans that helped us. we re going to stay on this, we re going to stay on our state department. we re going to use every level that we have to try and protect those that risk their lives to help us. this 20 year occupation that we have there is a complete collapse of the government in a short space of time. there are folks not able to get to the airport by august 31st. we as americans can lose faith in them. we have to keep the pressure up. we have over 70% of their
airport by august 31st, for heaven sakes we need to stay and make sure they are evacuated safely. harris: senator and pete from everything i m hearing from former leadership it will be hard to do that with 7,000 on the ground. we ll need a lot more to make it happen. i wonder how much the president will budge? absolutely. harris: we ll have to fight our way out if that s the case. thank you for being with us on set today. thank you for watching the faulkner focus . outnumbered is after the break.
0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and that s what the president was referring to. i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little more specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers were the taliban first. i would like to go back to the deadline. the french foreign minister said today that it s quote, necessary to continue the afghanistan evacuation beyond august 31. can t rule out who the hostile actor was in the incident last night. central command s statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. this just happened. i don t know when we ll have