That was ten years ago. Think about that. Were going to stay until we have a deal or we have total victory. I learned the hard way there was never a good time to withdrawal u. S. Forces. The taliban is continuing its offensive across afghanistan. Tal taliban fighters have broken through the front line. The Afghan Army collapsed and the central government has fallen. Panic fills the air in kabul. President biden said this is not going to be a saigon. Guess what . There has been an Explosion Outside kabul Airport. 170 afghans killed. 13 american troops killed. I stand scquarely behind my decision, its time to end americas longest war. Is it a mistake . I think it is, yeah. I think the consequences are going to be unbelievably bad. I must see its defeat for the United States. I think the president is right. Enough is enough. What was all of this for . That has to be the question veterans are asking. Two decades, more than 2 trillion, more than 6,000 american Lives, more than 100,000 afgha
Because there is nowhere to receive them. Ill talk about just bottlenecks and i think i talked about that earlier. As we those that Depart Kabul and get to those staging bases within U Com or Cent Com aor, we are ensuring that we place evacuees in one of the 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck sos that our increased throughput, increase that number that theyre able to hold there, Cent Come and U Com are continuing to coordinate together and with the Joints Staff in Trans Com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to leave kabul. Those On Kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. We expect the throughput that we saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck and others. We continue to manage that on an hourly, minute basis to ensure in a we know where to fly people to. Do you have enough people in the Airport Compound now in kabul i dont have the exact number. But there are evacuees On Kabul right now being processed through all stag
Afghanistans effective government. U. S. Military leaders say a decision to extend the withdraw dead line must be made by today. Because that would provide enough time to make plans for pulling out the 5800 troops on ground In Kabul when the mission ends as well as to remove equipment and weapons. More than 21,000 people were evacuated from afghanistan in just the last 24 hours. And an unprecedented operation. 4500 people are now waiting for evacuation flights inside of Kabul Airport this morning. A little more calm than in recent days. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the White House with more on the G7 Meeting underway. I suppose the question is will White House officials bracing themselves for a bit of shilacking from their allies on this. Reporter there is no question that they know that President Biden is going to face tough questions and pressure from the allies. Especially the United Kingdom and france who have been vocal about the need to extend the Withdrawal Deadline past August 31s
The largest number so far of people evacuated from the airport in kabul in a 24hour period. Its a really big number. 10,400 people. 10,400 air lifted out of kabul on sunday by u. S. Military aircraft. Now that again is a big number. It will have to continue to meet the clear need that is there. And it has been complicated by a whole slue of other developments. The airport, the scene of a deadly firefight overnight, involving u. S. , german and afghan forces. Afghan guard helping secure the base was killed by some kind of fire. Unclear whether it was Opponent Fire or friendly fire. No americans were injured in that attack. After president biden said he is considering extending the afghan Withdrawal Deadline now, new this morning, a taliban spokesman tells cnn that all u. S. Forces must leave afghanistan by The End of the month. They dont want to see any extension. Thats raising questions about whether afghan allyies, people who helped u. S. Troops over the course of the war, are going t
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