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the chaos. for the u.s., job number one is getting americans out safely. 3,000 u.s. troops arrived in kabul. they have helped evacuate staff from u.s. embassy sunday. now they re trying to get them out of the country all together. that is not an easy task. this morning, national security adviser jake sullivan told nbc the u.s. military is still in the process of fully securing the airport. those are afghans under an air force plane, trying to climb on landing gear as it is trying to take off. if that is not a picture of desperation, i don t know what is. across the country, thousands of afghans are selling what they have, grabbing life savings, trying desperately to escape all at the same time. chief foreign correspondent richard engle is in kabul with the latest. richard? reporter: afghans are tlonging to the airport, desperate to leave the country at any cost. scaling the airport walls, rushing in this morning. no streeng, no security checks. just force of numbers. ....
the embassy to help facilitate their departure from the country, to also help with the process of moving special immigrant visa applicants out of the country, and to provide additional security at the airport. again, we believe this is a prudent measure given the security spacing. 3,000 s a lot of people, though. can you give any better sense of, like, on a day-to-day, what are they doing? sounds like they must be that shall. that people, sounds like they must be getting people to the airport and they re take over security. i wouldn t go that far, courtney. the turkish force are still at the airport. they re in the lead of security at the airport. we already have some security forces, united states security forces at the airport, including some aviation elements. these 3,000 would be going to bolster that presence and to make sure that the airport is secure enough to facilitate the movement of all these people over the next couple of weeks. again, this is about prud ....
eastern europe. about 2,000 troops are going to poland and another 700 are going to rumania as well as other countries in the southeastern flank of nato. the reason for this is because of the anxiety these allies are feeling in the midst of this massive russian troop buildup in ukraine. the president did hint at this last week. he said he would be moving those troops to eastern europe in the near term, but he did not say when that would be happening. we are told these deployments could be coming in the coming days. what we re told is this is coming at a time when these allies are feeling very, very anxious about this russian aggression there, and this is a show of support for those allies. this is not a precursor to any kind of u.s. troops on the ground in ukraine. this is just those troops going to eastern europe to shore up that flank and reassure them that the u.s. is there in the event that russia does invade ukraine and tries to move even further west, jim. ambas ....
bill: that is jg jefferson on the left and john painter on the right. they were best friends known as the dynamic duo on campus and we are told that j.j. married this year and john was his best man in that wedding. dana: in new york city, an off-duty nypd officer was shot in an attempted carjacking. police say it was happening when he was on his way to work. two men tapped on his car window and when he got out of his vehicle, one shot him several times. bill: police have arrested a suspect a few blocks away. a gun recovered on the scene. thankfully, that officer is expected to recover. dana: all of this is unfolding as new york city mourns another fallen hero. he is one of two officers shot and killed last month responding to a domestic disturbance in harlem. not only did he die protecting new yorkers, but he donated five organs saving five lives in the process. bill: an inside look of st. . a funeral will begin an hour for an outfit for the second time in ....
news chief white house correspondent, peter alexander. nbc news foreign correspondent, matt bradley in eastern ukraine, jonathan la mir, politico white house bureau chief as well as host of way too early here on msnbc. and he lane cooper, the new york times pentagon correspondent. both jonathan and helane are msnbc contributors. peter, what more can you tell us about the president s decision to u.s. moves troops already on standby to europe? reporter: that s exactly right. we have now learned that it s a total of 3,000 u.s. troops who will be moving, about a thousand of them already in europe will be going to romania, a native member nation. another 2,000 presently here in the u.s. will be going to germany and to poland, as well. this comes, according to a senior administration official at the president s direction, and following the recommendation of the defense secretary, secretary austin. i think you re going to hear this officially from john kirby, the press s ....