Bill: terrified women have been begging u. S. Soldiers for help there. Dana: desperate parents are hoisting children over checkpoint barriers pleading with american and british troops to put them on the next flight out. Bill: if you leave 2500, do you keep the peace there. Do you need to increase it is what this administration is arguing? if we say we ll have to surge forces and we don t want to do that. More from the interview on abc now. Top military advisors warned against it and wanted you to keep 2500 troops. , no they didn t. It was split. That is not true. We should keep 2500 troops. We can do and continue to do that. No one said that to me that i can recall. You don t think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? president biden: no, i don t think it could have been handled in a way back in hindsight and look. Bill: listen to this carefully. A clip they released last night. Much more this morning on abc. He is hell bent on getting out of afghanistan and dam
Thousands of americans and afghans are still desperately trying to get out while movement at the airport has picked up. That is good news. This is still the message from our state department and all caps warning in an email, safe passage to the airport is not assured. Now after saying the taliban was not going to take over the country and any sort of short order, was biden now saying in an interview that this was pretty much inevitable. The idea that somehow there s a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, i don t know how that happens. General jack keane is standing by with us. First, an update from lucas tomlinson live at the pentagon. Lucas? martha, there s now more than 5,000 u. S. Troops on the ground right now at the airport in kabul, including special operations forces. Another 1,000 troops are due in any day now and the pentagon is concerned about their safety. Isis and alqaeda is a planning factor. You wouldn t expect it to be otherwise. I m not going to talk about spec
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Are describing. while there s on going evacuations from the airport in kabul, the scene outside remains chaotic. the heart wrenching videos with people handing children over the walls, desperate to get them to safety. a group of afghan refugees that arrived in germany described what it was like getting to the airport with taliban fighters hitting people with sticks and firing rifles. nato officials say 12 people have been killed since sunday in an around the airport. protests continue. a report of 200 people gathered in kabul to mark afghanistan s independence day. the protest was violently disbursed by the taliban. several people were also killed during a similar demonstration after taliban fighters fired into the crowd. there s reports today that say that a military opposition is forming in afghanistan. it s led by the son of a former afghan gorilla fighter and the former vice president of the