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While not really knowing how many priority cases they re really seeking. how many americans american citizens remain in in afghanistan? i don t know. what we do know is that 6,000 people are now at the airport. 6,000 people have been able to make it. have made it through the processing. and as of a couple of hours ago, we had received only a small handful of reports otherwise from american citizens. reporter: inside, it is messy. but there are flights often many of them where lives are walked onto c-17s and changed forever when the doors close. the story of the airport. the last place america controls in afghanistan where the chaos outside the wire means the promises inside fall perilously short. now, don, the u.s. today talked very lofty goals about 5 to 9,000 people being flown out, every day, if they can. and claimed that they d got 6,000 processed inside that airport for flights in the hours and days ahead. ....
reporter: this is the only way out for so many. the airport road jammed, chaos, over a trillion dollars spent and this is what the end looks like. walk where you can t drive. just ahead of us is the gates into the airport and this is the panicked scene of many people still moving despite how hard it has been. entry into the last bit america controls, there is panic. tanks, someone shouts. but who is doing crowd control outside america evacuation spot? the taliban. with vehicles that they have taken from the afghan army, paid for by america, now used to keep the desperate crowds back, people whose only hope is to get out. possibly with american help. crowding at gates, trying to climb walls originally built to keep an insurgency out, being sent running. ....
Pompeo talk about it yesterday. this is how you have freedom of access for trade. freedom of seas is the most important thing. we have senile for the past 10 years china building up islands in the south china sea. they are trying to take land away from south korea. islands away from india. pete: militarize. first thing they do is militarize that island. i think this is getting a lot of us navy people kind of excited because we have a competitor again as it relates to the asian pacific arena. their long-term goal with the navy is to control that theater, pete. and it s also to keep us out. we have dozens of bases around the world. the chinese only have one base in africa. they have ambitious plans for more. right now america controls. we make sure there is freedom of navigation and freedom of seas. chinese want to stop that and remake it in their image. pete: navy s slogan was once a global force for good. we were the only garnl tores of free navigation. china is challenging that ....