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flying out to third party countries. and also looking for other places to fly some of these evacuees. that is what led to a pause. the white house described it as a brief pause. our clarissa ward and team on the ground in kabul described this as an eight-hour delay. hardly a brief pause. it gives you a sense of how difficult this process is to bring people in, fly them to the countries and process them. that caused a bit of a backup. a significant backup, actually, but the white house is saying that president biden will announce that the flights are resuming. they will resume. the order has been give ton start the flights up again. but the question here is is the state department, is this government bureaucracy working as fast as it needs to here? that s one thing on the minds of officials here at the white house as they ve been meeting with the president and others, trying to get some of this backlog unjammed, if you will. that s been a challenge of the morning. this i ....
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 ....
thousands are holding out home stuck outside of the walls of kabul airport waiting with no guarantee they ll be able to be safely evacuated, in a new interview, he is defending his call to pull off troops from afghanistan. you don t think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? no. i don t think it could have been handled in a way that we re going to go back in hindsight and look and to think that there is a way to get out without chaosen chaosenuing, you don t know how that happens. even if americans and our afghan allies are still trying to get out, they re going to leave. we re going to do everything in our power to get all americans and our allies out. does that means troops will stay beyond august 31st if necessary. if depends on where we are and whether we could ramp the numbers up to 5,000 to $7,000 a day coming out. if that is the case, they ll all be out. because we have like 10 to 15,000 americans in the country right now, ....
way out, but the state department has reiterated it cannot ensure safe passage for americans trying to get there and the pentagon says u.s. troops will not go out to retrieve them. here is a look at the gauntlet where thousands of americans and afghans are risking confrontation with the taliban and the taliban s gunfire just to get close to that airport. according to reuters, 12 people have been killed in that area since the taliban took control of the capital. this video was taken outside of the kabul airport and it shows a woman pushing her way through, ultimately being pulled over the wall to safety by american soldiers. in the past 24 hours the u.s. has evacuated more than 2,000 people from afghanistan, tens of thousands are still waiting for their chance. nick paton walsh is cnn s international security editor. nirk, you are in doha, in qatar. earlier this week you were at the airport in kabul. having been there, what is your take on the ability to ramp up this ....
only 2500, would be out of the country on may 1st. the idea that the status quo could have been maintained by keeping our forces there i think is simply wrong. we have team coverage on the ground in afghanistan and across the globe tracking the latest developments. we begin with cnn international security investigator nick peyton walsh. what is the situation right now? it s comparatively quiet. i have just heard a couple of crackles of gunfire over there. about an hour ago we saw a trace of fire with helicopters above. the skies are a little bit quiet but there have been consistent helicopters moving, we think american personnel around the airport where they re mostly headed. developments in the just last hour, we ve been seeing pictures broadcast by al-jazeera. from what it looks like possibly one of the key offices of former president i should say president afghani. one said he had been in guantanamo bay prison for eight years but essentially not feeling any rea ....