Help folks escape and the Oklahoma Mother of 11 helped the group of afghan girls did just that and what our allies are really thinking despite the president s best efforts to say No One is criticizing. We begin at the Pentagon Where we await that briefing. Reporter 30 minutes from that briefing to get the latest on afghanistan and what the us embassy In Kabul was warning when it instructed americans not to go to the airport, quote, because of potential Security Threats outside the gates of the couple airports we advise citizens to avoid traveling to the afforded of What Airport Gates at this time as you are receiving individual instructions from us Government Representative to do so. Yesterday President Biden said the evacuation is going well and americans were having a problem. No indication that they havent gotten through the airport. We need an agreement with them, allowed them to go through so we know of no circumstance where american citizens are caring american passports to get t
On capitol hill. 50 senators demand the president ramp up evacuations as multiple congressional committees are expected to hold hearings. senator bob menendez calling it a flawed execution asking secretary of defense austin and secretary of state blinken to appear this week as republican senator lindsey graham says this is reaching the level of impeachment. if we leave one american behind, don t get all those afghans who stepped up to the plate out then president biden in my view committed a high crime and misdemeanor and should be impeached. reporter: yesterday they briefed lawmakers on a conference call but that s not doing much too slow demand for these hearings. we will see them on the house and senate side. charles: the senate armed service committee among those
That s put together of who is on those aircraft and that decision is made of where that, you know, could go to. let s say some flights were going into qatar and taking some there so that afghans could be held there temporarily and then waiting for other flights to go what we re trying to do is keep the airflow that s in the theater, right, from having to go far, that continue to drop people off to allow other flights to take from qatar forward to, for instance, into dulles. so, you know, we depends on how many folks we have, what is it, a full slight of siv. is it other afghans? is it americans? so that s just extremely dynamic and you know, with trans com and the commanders and those manifests are done, they make those decisions, you know, on the spot. so the idea that only siv s
Operation. it is unclear if it is a military rescue operation, they looking at my military ways to reach american allies at the airport perimeter the president said us forces of not reached that area because it could have unintended consequent is on people are not part of the taliban. nato secretary-general indicated allied nations are scrambling to meet the deadline set by the us. the timeline on the 30 first of august, several allies, the need to extend that to get more people out. our focus is to get our own staff people working for nato allied countries but also afghans. reporter: the president claimed there s been no challenge to america s credulity on the world stage but the headlines outside the us paint a different picture.
We successfully secured the kabul airport. the situation a week ago was different than it is today. the airport remains secure. us military personnel oversee flight operations, us military contracted aircraft as well as for an aircraft operate within kabul airport. additionally the us military has maintained gate security and supported state department colleagues in processing of individuals to prepare for evacuation flights out of afghanistan. critical to afghans at risk out of the dire situation in afghanistan requires additional space at intermediate safe havens and other locations. this impacts our throughput. the us military airlifted