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the u.s. military and taliban tried to expert what authority they could. militants with rifles kept crowds away from the airport gates guarding checkpoints with trucks and at least one humvee by the roads. many with bags at their sides numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands of previous days. the security situation turning the united states and the taliban into strange bed fellows. seth moulton went on a controversial and unauthorized trip to kabul this week described the scene before the bombing and how the marines are working with the taliban. it s an impossible task we ve given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity, thousands and thousands of afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends and their families, their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, literally pull them to freedom. i expected to see a gate with marines on one side and afghans on the other. that s not the way this could work. we have to go out in the crowd. so these ....
at the paralympics in tokyo. australia and china lead the medals table. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in the morning in singapore and 6pm in washington, where the us secretary of state, antony blinken, has said the taliban have made a commitment to allow american citizens and some afghans to leave the country after the end of the evacuation deadline. he said 4,500 us citizens have been rescued so far. in kabul itself, the scramble to leave is gathering pace. the pentagon says about 10,000 people are currently at the airport. secunder kermani has this report from kabul. shame on them! they ve been through so much already. now wading through sewage in the hope of somehow being able to leave this country. huge crowds are still flocking to kabul airport, under the watch of american and british soldiers. despite the dirt, the dust, the gunshots and the chaos, people are still coming here, and they re coming here in their thousand ....
fall-out from president biden s denial of any mistakes in the exit from afghanistan. cnn now learning that u.s. diplomats wrote an internal memo last night warning of a potential catastrophe in afghanistan. this hour i will get reaction from the president, the deputy national security adviser. he s standing by live. our experts are standing by as we cover this breaking story. we begin with cnn national security respondent over at the state department for us. this is major. what are you learning about this memo? reporter: wolf, what we re learning is that two dozen diplomats wrote this classified dissent memo to the saek tear of state tony blinken in july. they were urging the department to take more actions to prepare for what they saw as a massive evacuation effort that would be needed to get these afghans who would apply for these different visas and refugee status in the united states out of the country. the context in which they were making this suggestion is the ....
same level of protection. aide workers around the world rushing to haiti after saturday s devastating earthquake. complicating matters even further violent gangs and tropical depression bearing down on the island. new york state lawmakers will release a final reports on the impeachment probe. leaders faced backlash for suspending the investigation after cuomo announced his resignation. brian: here we go. welcome to the show. we start with a fox news alert. kabul s airport reopening following chaos on the tarmac we all witnessed yesterday as many as 8 afghans dying. many who are riskily. they were trying to flee the taliban. they had one plane. and all the planes stopped after that ugly incident. jillian: there were some people that were in the stow away area and fell. brian: wheel well. ainsley: hundreds of people packed on a cargo ship desperate to escape. steve: president biden plays the blame game. he wasn t exactly quoting harry truman yesterday the buck sto ....
were there, literally right in the middle of it about where we were and where we were going to end up? the reason that i went back there at that time was because it was the obama surge, right, which president biden was opposed to, which he said in his speech today, reminded everybody he was opposed to that and with hundreds of thousands of troops flooded back into afghanistan, the concept was one last push will give them the best chance to be able to stand up a sustainable government military and internal security force. we will do the best that they can and then they will stand alone. this is everything we can do. and the idea was that the surge would happen, you kind of set it and leave. and to see what happened. of course setting it left it set for another eight years before anything after the surge ended, before the troops finally left. the argument was the same the whole time, which is that, you know, likely even if america does almost infinite resource devotio ....