afghan women going out on the streets holding placards saying women s rights must be defended and today in the city of jalalabad, some afghans went out and they were carrying the old afghan flag, the multi-colored afghan flag saying that s their flag, the national flag and not the taliban flag. according to witnesses, taliban opened fire and killed at least three of them. so far on this base today things seem to be moving more smoothly. richard engel with the situation on the ground in kabul and general mccaffrey, i ll go right to you picking up from what we heard from richard that the taliban leaders seem to be saying all of the right things rid now, but in less than two weeks, this air light of and extraction operation is supposed to be over. i guess my question is is this over when we decide it s over or when the taliban decides it s over and do we have the military and logistics capacity to get everyone we need to get out before that happens?
their military counterparts in the taliban and talking about safe passage to get to the airport and potentially have safe passage to afghans and that opens up an entirely new set of problems with having the afghans move through as general mccaffrey was explaining can they move through the taliban check points and it doesn t appear to be the case yet. i m glad you mentioned those conversations in theater and that was one of the most fascinating things we saw in the briefing. peter, the biden administration is trying to send the right messages responding to the circumstances on the ground including a joint statement today calling on afghanistan s new leaders, the taliban to protect women and girls. you know how it is, the politics of this when you are responding you re shally losing and the president is trying to respond to pretty rough politics at home and take us through what the white house is reviewing these developments and what they ll do next. the white house has said that pol
children filling the beds. please get vaccinated. the best action you can do to protect yourself and others is to get vaccinated in the first place. we begin this hour with the situation in afghanistan, and nbc national security and military correspondent courtney kubi and weekend today co-host peter alexander, david ignatius and retired four-star army general mccaffrey. let s go to foreign chief correspondent richard engel. garrett, things here are looking more orderly than a couple of days ago, this is the kabul international airport and on monday this is where we saw thousands of afghans climb on to the fence, storm on to the runway and hanging on to civilian planes and u.s. military transport jets stopping the evacuation process. more troops have been brought
they may regret their support for the taliban in the coming year or so. they ve got their own taliban inside the ungoverned spaces and the tribal area. i don t know what s going to happen. i don t think the continuing counter terrorism mission in afg was worth staying any longer. i think we have other tool, the fbi, local law enforcement, the cia, special ops, but having said that david ignatius is the best voice on this issue every time. the chaos in afghanistan is brutal. biden does own it. i personally think he had very political option to get out when he did. we ll be following it for a long time. courtney, peter, david, general mccaffrey, thank all of you. we ll be on this story for sure. coming up, abbott in isolation. the texas governor who blocked mask mandates in his state now has a breakthrough state for covid.
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