Hello, every one. Second hour of newsroom. Any Moment President biden will address the nation from State Dining Room there at the White House and con front this new place in american history. The president who ended the longest war in u. S. History in afghanistan for the first time in two decades and after a chaotic and deadly two weeks. U. S. Troops have ceased all Military Operations in afghanistan. The taliban is declaring victory and flaunting some elements of their new arsenal. With us now, we have cnn chief national affairs correspondent. What does the president want to tell the country . Reporter you know that President Biden was meeting with his national Security Adviser here at the White House earlier. Some of the details from the meeting are likely to infuse his speech that hell be giving. Hes running a bit behind here. They are putting a lot of thought into this speech because it must carry a lot of weight. The historic weight of ending a 20year war. Something hes long wante
To those websites, the air space over afghanistan is empty now. there aren t aircraft going in or out. getting those last 100 or 200 americans in or out has been incredibly difficult. it will be interesting to see what president biden acknowledges about what kind of efforts there will be and what those efforts will look like because it s a very difficult task right now. one that still requires, you would imagine, to some extent, taliban cooperation and coordination. they have been a part of this process since the negotiations began. they may still be part of the process to get the last 100 or 200 out. this is the promise from president biden to extricate the americans that want to leave. are you committed to make sure the troops stay that every
There s going be an economic crisis. they are tie rying to stake the saving out of the banks and get out of the country. despite the noises the taliban is making which are positive, the reality is there s a huge concern about whether the taliban has the wherewithal to properly govern a country. for the past 20 years they have been in insurgency. when they were governing, they were doing a poor job. can they preside oaf a modern education system? can they have infrastructure projects? i think a lot of people are looking to friday when they expect to announce a tran transitional government. if you bought into that project and spent 20 years thriving as a result of the u.s. presence in afghanistan, this is a dark day
For helping them? it becomes a diplomatic mission. that means the u.s. works with allies to find some way to u.s. get citizens to kabul international airport or some other location where they can be brought out of the country. what was unmentioned was the prohibition on flights from the faa that makes it impossible for u.s. aircraft to go into afghanistan or u.s. carrier to go into afghanistan. that has to be arranged with somebody else through another country s airline or privately operated aircraft. everything about getting the americans out became far more difficult after the last c-17 took off than before. it has to be a diplomatic mission because there s no military presence on the ground to carry out that mission. at least not one the pentagon is acknowledging. because of the restriction on flights has become more difficult. i ve been looking at flight tracking website and according
Ended up getting more than 5,500 americans out. we got thousands of citizens and diplomats from those countries that went into afghanistan with us to get bin laden. we got out staff and their families, totaling 2,500 people. we got thousands of afghan translaters and interpreters and others who supported the united states out add well. now we believe that about 100 to 200 americans we main in afghanistan with some intention to leave. most of those that remain are duel citizens. long time residents who earlier decided to stay because of their family roots in afghanistan. the bottom line, 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to