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leaving. speaking for the first time since the fall of kabul in the face of today s chaos, a defiant president joe biden defended his judgment but conceded he was cut off guard. i stand squarely behind my decision after 20 years i have learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw u.s. forces. the truth is, this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. bret: he said the u.s. gave the afghan forces every tool they could need but couldn t provide them with the will to fight for their future. this comes as fox news confirms the taliban are going door to door searching for afghan special forces who fought alongside american troops further complicating the current withdrawal. we have fox team coverage tonight. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with what comes next, how the u.s. military is trying to bolster its presence at the kabul airport and creating an air bridge for americans and allied afghans on the ground. but we begin with white hou ....
headstones at arlington national cemetery? i am president of the united states of america, and the buck stops with me. the president speaking starkly and clearly about this situation. here s what we can tell you. right now it is night fall in kabul. the taliban has total control of the country. there are also reports the taliban is already performing military executions and reportedly going door to door searching for any people in the country who helped what they view as the american occupation. the pentagon says the airport is currently grounding all flights. hundreds swarmed the tarmac. we have seen the up believable picture of afghans literally on the side running with and clinging to a u.s. c-17 military plane. people desperate in any way to get near anything that might get them out of the country. seven dyed monday in the chaos at the airport. 1,000 troops have been sent to kabul trying to complete the evacuation process. in all, 6,000 troops will be in afghanist ....
launched in october of 2001. this was just a few hours ago at the presidential palace in kabul. the taliban militants sitting at the desk of the president, the former president, we should say. a clear sign the war for afghanistan is essentially over. meantime, president biden is sending an additional 1,000 troops to protect the airport. one of the last places in afghanistan that is not under ban control. take a look right here. this is scene at the airport tonight. a mad scramble to get out of kabul before it is too late. but no one can say if there are days or just hours before the last plane departs, leaving afghan people to an unknown fate. events are moving with lightning speed tonight. time evacuate americans from afghanistan is running out and the pentagon is already making some tough choices. i m joined now by orrin lieberman. on sunday they said there were 500 staff evacuated but a number to go. the total number that need to be evacuated from the embassy is 4, ....
3,000 will be in place. deaths and devastation after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake hits haiti. we see new harrowing images, new accounts of dead being pulled from rubble, people being treated in the open air. haiti s prime minister declaring a state of emergency as the u.s. geological survey warns of rising casualties and widespread destruction. hospitals overwhelmed by seriously ill patients as the delta variant tears across the country. the situation is dire, and we are simply out of time. we have zero icu beds left for children. i m pamela brown in washington. you are in the cnn newsroom on this busy saturday. the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan is taking a major turn right now. president biden a short time ago announcing he is sending a total of 5,000 troops to afghanistan. that is double the number of u.s. forces that were there when the president announced the u.s. exit four months ago. the additional troops are deploying to help get americans out as t ....
week. climate envoy john kerry will help us understand the prognosis of it. but first here s my take. as we watch the tragedy that is unfolding in afghanistan, let s first dispense with the fantasy that the united states was maintaining the peace there with just a few thousand troops and that the situation could ve been managed with this small commitment. for the last couple of years, it sure looked that way to americans because washington had made a deal with the taliban, and as a result the taliban was deliberately not attacking u.s. and coalition forces. for the afghans, the war had been intensifying. in the summer of 2019 the afghan army and police force suffered their worst casualties in the two decades of fighting. it was also the worst spirit for afghan civilian casualties in a decade. in 2018 when the u.s. had four times as many troops as this year, 282 civilian afghans fled their homes in the countryside. a government survey done that year showed that afghan ....