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. we are ten days from the negotiated deadline to remove troops from afghanistan. the situation remains chaotic. they are trying to flee the country. more than ry20,000 people have beenpl evacuated so far, and th includes approximately 2500 americans. this morning,te president biden met with his national security team. they discussed the security situation inis afghanistan, and counterterrorism operations. the government says the kabul airport is security. nearly 6,000 troops are nationed there. however, nbc learned the u.s. is tracking threats from isis against americans and others trying to reach kabul. the military is trying to find an alternate path. despite the challenges on the ground, president biden made this promise yesterday. let me be clear. any american who wants to come home, wets will get you home. meanwhile, the bipartisan group of governors has committed to taken in afghan civilians. sponsor cotts wrote to biden tuesday, and offered to resist. g ....
an isis or al-qaeda angle to this? i think an isis or al-qaeda angle to this? think you an isis or al-qaeda angle to this? i think you can understand, courtney, why we think you can understand, courtney, why we are think you can understand, courtney, why we are not think you can understand, courtney, why we are not going think you can understand, courtney, why we are not going to think you can understand, courtney, why we are not going to get - think you can understand, courtney, why we are not going to get into- why we are not going to get into specific why we are not going to get into specific details why we are not going to get into specific details about why we are not going to get into specific details about the - why we are not going to get into specific details about the threatl specific details about the threat environment specific details about the threat environment or specific details about the threat environment or what specific details ab ....
intelligence is giving us. we have said havfrom the very beginning of this we re going to try to do this in a safe and orderly way. that means making sure nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible. so what you re seeing out of our state department colleagues, i think, is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is from the gates from outside the airport is done as safely as possible, and that people have the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves going forward. i do understand the question and the interest, but i hope you understand we re going to be very careful about what kind of extra context we re going to put out there in the information environment. there was a crown threat that led to the evacuation via helicopter on thursday of some americans from right near the airport. what we re trying to figure out is, is this just a, there s large crowds and it is difficult for americans to get there, or is there actu ....
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 ameri ....
to travel to the kabul airport because of potential security threats from islamic state terrorists reported thousands of people are still trying desperately to escape the country nearly a week after the taliban take over welcome to fox news live. heartfelt and neville are off today. the alert from security less than 24 hours after president biden pledged to get all americans home safely and to do whatever we can to illuminate afghan allies but still so many trying to escape the chaos continues. john her because money. we are going to try to save and orderly way making sure nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible so what you are seeing out of our state department colleagues is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is propagates from outside the airport is done as safely as possible and people have the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves. we have team coverage on this developing story. president spending ....