Situation. In the past 24 hours, 2,000 people have been evacuated, far short of the goal of 5,000 to 9,000 a day. Of those the pentagon says only 300 were u. S. Citizens. Its not about the math. Its about whats ready to fleig fly. You know, who is on the airfield ready to leave a Holding Area and get on the aircraft. Reporter the dangerous scene unfolding on the ground underscores just how difficult it may be for these words from the president to come true. There are afghan women outside the gate, i told get them on the planes. Get them out. Get their families out if you can. Reporter Defense Secretary Lloyd austin and chair. Joint chiefs general Mark Milley arriving at the White House to brief the President And Vice president. The president spent the day out of public view after insisting in an abc News Interview on wednesday that chaos was always inevitable. But the idea that somehow theres a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i dont know how that happens. Reporter congres
Fallout from president Bidens Denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. Cnn now learning that u. S. Diplomats wrote an internal memo last Night Warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. This hour i will get reaction from the president , the deputy national Security Adviser. Hes standing by live. Our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. We begin with cnn national Security Respondent over at the State Department for us. This is major. What are you learning about this memo . Reporter wolf, what were learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified Dissent Memo to the Saek Tear of state Tony Blinken In July. They were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive Evacuation Effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different visas and Refugee Status in the United States out of the country. The context in which they were making this suggestion is the fact the taliban wer
Fall-out from president biden s denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. cnn now learning that u.s. diplomats wrote an internal memo last night warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. this hour i will get reaction from the president, the deputy national security adviser. he s standing by live. our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. we begin with cnn national security respondent over at the state department for us. this is major. what are you learning about this memo? reporter: wolf, what we re learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified dissent memo to the saek tear of state tony blinken in july. they were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive evacuation effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different
You heart kailey s report on this group of diplomat sending a dissent memo to cemetery of state blinken warning of spending collapse, urging that steps be taken to help the afghan allies in the country be able to escape more quickly. cnn reports that this warning was labeled as, quote, alarmist. what do you make of this? boy, when you are dealing in the threat business, which i did for years, you get alarmists for every day. everybody is whispering in your ear, here is where they re coming at you tomorrow. you have to determine what to filter and whatnot to filter. this reminds me of january 6th. the question is not whether the memo was perfectly accurate, whether it was perfectly predictive. the question is when you see a major event looming on the horizon in a week or two weeks a month, and clearly we saw the withdrawal of afghanistan from
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