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i m poppy harlow. i m jim sciutto. the u.s. president defiant while kabul remains in chaos. president biden pushing back against criticism in a new interview saying the report by the wall street journal that he ignored advice from top generals to keep at least a small number of troops in afghanistan while seeking a peace agreement is not true. your top military advisers warned against withdrawing on this time line. they wanted you to keep 2,500 troops. no, they didn t. that was split. it wasn t true. they didn t tell you they wanted troops to stay? not in terms of whether we were going to get out in a time frame, all troops. they didn t argue against that. so no one told you, your military advisers didn t tell you, no, we should keep 2,500 troops, it s been a stable situation the last several years, we can do that, we can continue to do that? no, no one said that to me, not that i recall recall. the united states is increasing, ramping up its efforts t ....
on booster shots for most americans. we re also following dangerous and fast-moving developments out of afghanistan. we just learned defense secretary lloyd austin and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, mark milley, will be briefing reporters this afternoon. this will be the first time we ve heard from them since the taliban seized control of afghanistan. this comes as we get a new and clearer view of desperate afghans trying to get out of the country and a faltering u.s. response despite evacuation flights resuming at kabul s airport. reports of taliban fighters opening fire to disperse large crowds. witnesses reporting protesters being beaten by taliban fighters as well. cnn s clarissa ward is on the ground with reporting on the mayhem on the streets near kabul s airport. we ll bring that to you in just a moment. we are moments away from a big announcement from president biden s covid response scene, that booster shots will be recommended for the general pub ....
arriving at the white house today. we understand that they met with president biden. the administration is aiming to evacuate tens of thousands of people from afghanistan by august 31st. but there appears to be a major disconnect between the stated u.s. evacuation plan and what s actually happening on the streets of kabul. okay, so what you re hearing are these pops of gunfire used to control the crowds. these are crowds of civilians trying to get inside the airport in kabul. a warning, these pictures we re about to show you are graphic. a photographer for the l.a. times captured this. you see these are children, one of them at least, people being beaten with whips and sticks and what that photographer described as taliban violence. the pentagon says that it is aware of this, quote, harassment and that u.s. military leaders are communicating with the taliban in kabul. now, the pentagon says in the last 24 hours, 18 military planes have flown roughly 2,000 passenge ....
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, president biden on his way back to the white house. this is the taliban makes their presence known across afghanistan. today holding a press conference. they had a whole press conference and releasing a video of their co-founder arriving. it is the first time he s stepped foot in afghanistan in 20 years. hugely symbolic picture and a huge victory for the taliban. taliban forces are negotiating with the united states to ensure the safety of americans still stuck inside afghanistan. the takeover comes as the white house is mounting a full throated defense of the administration s response to the withdrawal of the few remaining u.s. troops who have been holding afghanistan firmly. national security advisor jake sullivan says the president takes full responsibility for every decision. decisions of course that led to the sobering images we ve seen from kabul like the packed military plane with 700 afghans inside. and the ima ....
pressure on administration to do certain things however. right. every read from the ground is consistent. if the biden administration does not find a way to fix the problem of abandoning people who put their lives on the line for american fighting men and women, it will be a stain on this administration forever. i don t disagree with that. there is political push back and people on the trump fringe trying to make it like look at the people he wants to bring here. these are men and women talk to our veterans. listen to our veterans about what they did for this country and for our fighting men and women. yeah. and now they will be left there and they will be hunted down like dogs. i think it s i agree with what you said but i think it s too early to judge what is going to happen. we don t know what is going to happen. the exit, yeah, those pictures are horrific. nobody can deny the situation that happened at the airport there and the pictures that we re se ....