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we will have the latest on the cities effort to curb the from nbc news world headquarters in new york, i m joshua johnston. welcome to the week. we begin tonight with evacuations from afghanistan. by all accounts, it is chaotic outside the airport in kabul. thousands of people are desperate to flee the country, as the taliban consolidate power. the british military said today that seven people were killed in a stampede of people who were trying to get into the airport. the biden administration has come under fire for how it has handled these evacuations. the situation could be hurting the presidents performance with voters too. a new nbc poll out today shows the president s approval rating has dipped low 50% for the first time in his presidency. today, he acknowledged the realities on the ground, but defended his administration s handling of the situation. let me be clear, evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when ....
they re in the crowd. we asked the pentagon for comment. we have breaking news as well. new details of the top american commander in afghanistan. to be clear, these are not the ongoing talks between diplomats in qatar. this is a rear admiral speaking directly with the taliban. also tonight, new groups that foresaw this. telling you about the extraordinary action they saw to warn their boss that the situation could rapidly deteriorate and that they feared a catastrophe which is exactly what came to pass. which is exactly why the biden administration is scrambling, why it s now knows negotiate with the taliban and why despite evacuation efforts some of the growing number of transport planes are leaving kabul less than full. people who want to leave cannot safely get through taliban checkpoints to the airport. they have made it clear they re not getting afghans and neither do they know how many afghans are still in the country. john kirby wouldn t say. he wouldn t give a n ....
rapidly deteriorate. and that they feared a catastrophe, which is exactly what came to pass. which is exactly why the biden administration s scrambling and why it s now necessary to negotiate with the taliban. and why, despite evacuation efforts speeding up, some of the growing number of transport planes are leaving kabul less than full. people want to leave simply cannot safely get through taliban checkpoints to the airport. senior pentagon officials have made it clear they re not going into kabul to get afghans or even americans. nor, do officials and this is remarkable even know how many americans, let alone afghans, are still in the country. when asked today, pentagon spokesman john kirby wouldn t say. he wouldn t give a number. i do not have a breakdown. i i suspect that over time as our manifesting process gets more refined, we may be able to be that be there but we don t have that specific breakdown. today, how many americans american citizens remai ....
conditions on the ground remain volatile. the taliban blocking the airport in kabul making it difficult for those desperately trying to get out. plus critics claiming that biden administration for a lack of transparency and mixed messaging. the pentagon admits it still does not know how many americans are stranded in afghanistan tonight. so let s get to the team coverage and the fall of afghanistan. kevin corke is in washington gauging the political fallout from the chaos. the evacuation situation that we began with diane with the latest developments with friday morning done in afghanistan. actually, we have a little bit of technical difficulty so charles let s go with the evacuations, good evening, charles. shannon, the u.s. is in control of karzai international airport and chaos ensues as thousands of people including americans desperately tried to flee afghanistan here there is major crowding outside of the airports north and east gates as people tried to make thei ....