So i m going to have to pay attention but if i can do the job, i will on sunday when the storm is there. Stay safe and keep your family safe. Everyone is thinking of everyone out there that needs to do the same. We re all in it together, l coats, we re all in it together. That s what they say and i m waiting for humanity to act on it. You have to say it. Thank you, chris. Talk to you soon. Be safe. This is don lemon tonight. I m laura coats in for don lemon and in the past week, we ve seen the collapse of the afghan government. The taliban takeover. The chaos at the airport as thousands and thousands of desperate people try to get on planes. Their only hope of escape, that as president biden is holding firm today in his view that getting out of afghanistan was not only the right decision but the only decision. Committing to do everything he can to evacuate afghan allies and promising that any american who wants to come home will get ho home. We re going to do everything to provide safe
In for d. Lemon right now. It hasn t let up. A hurricane. We re all watching this. I hope people heed your warning better safe than sorry. Scary time. I ll tell you. In a weird way, the act of nature, the tropical storm is more predictable and more understandable than what is going on afghanistan. And how we re making ourselves sick with this pandemic. I m torn. I got to see what this storm is going to do because i have to be there for my family. Long island is vulnerable. You lose power very quickly. It s hard to restore it. It gets wet. It floods very easily out there. So i m going to have to pay attention but if i can do the job, i will on sunday when the storm is there. Stay safe and keep your family safe. Everyone is thinking of everyone out there that needs to do the same. We re all in it together, l coats, we re all in it together. That s what they say and i m waiting for humanity to act on it. You have to say it. You got to say it to make it true. Thank you, chris. Talk to you
We begin tonight with new developments in the pullout from afghanistan. Evacuation flights are back up and running after being on hold part of the day, the first airport transport landing in germany. At the white house what some saw as effort to project resolve and competence after a chaotic week in kabul and punishing week in washington, president biden renewed his promise to get any american home who wants to leave. He made a similar promise to evac all evacuate all afghans who helped in the war effort. We have breaking news on exactly how the operation played out. When asked today, the president said he s considering operations as well to get the americans and afghan allies who might be stuck behind taliban check points. He continued to portray the country s sudden collapse as unforeseeable, down playing the internal state department memo we reported on last night which warned of such a fate as american forces withdrew. We re going to have more on all that coming up. First we want t
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 haven t 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