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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 ....
taliban. this is the way out for haji right now. there is no other way out for him. and that is just one frightening story, and there are tens of thousands of people waiting for a way out. cyril, thank you very much. thanks for staying with us on newsroom. i m victor blackwell. i m alisyn camerota. there are 6,000 people at the airport in kabul who have been fully processed and will soon board evacuation flights. the u.s. has only been able to evacuate 7,000 people since sunday. getting to the airport is dangerous. taliban fighters are intimidatinintimidate ing people with gunfire and violence. 12 people have been killed in that area since the taliban took control of the capital. nick paton walsh is in doha. you ve penned a new op-ed for cnn.com. you write, in the end, i reporter: the real tragic fact is we are in this situation because we stopped paying attention to afghanistan for really the best part of the last five, six, even ten years. it s a war t ....
show taliban fighters beating on afghans, they are trying to sell themselves as a kinder and gentler taliban. dana: it says they will respect women s right despite evidence to the contrary. bill: bidden administration relying on the group to guarantee safe passage for thousands of americans scattered all over the country with only one exit. that s at the airport in kabul. remember, six weeks ago the president insisted he did not trust the taliban. this morning the criticism about him and his decision continues unabated. our government is putting faith in the taliban that their want for legitimacy and international rule is above their want to kill us. they re stuck between a rock and a hard place. they either tell americans to shelter in place and get the military into a shooting war to get americans out. the taliban are a brutal regime and how they govern. dana: mike gallagher is standing by with reaction. trey yengst the latest on the situation at the airpo ....
and look at where we are. is this magical or what? welcome to the field of dreams. hey, is this heaven? no. it s iowa. how exciting. it is amazing. the new york yankees, the chicago white sox. they surrounded by hollywood movie stars. just a move set, field of dreams, they got to do that yesterday. and, of course, my boston red sox were playing out the end of the season yesterday. there were three grounds crew keepers there. the street preacher. an old hound dog. and that was it as we lost another game in miserable fashion. this game last night, this was special. i still remember back in 76 watching mark fuddridge pitch on monday night baseball. it was one of those moments in the middle of a long baseball season where everybody stopped and watched what was going on. it was a magical night. last night, even though it didn t end up exactly how yankees fans would like it to end up, another magical night for major league baseball. it was. i was thinking t ....
kabul that is how fast the taliban is tearing across the country like a buzz saw retaking control 20 years after u.s. forces first invaded and weeks since all american troops left. this was president biden on that day a month ago. is the taliban takeover in afghanistan now inevitable? no, it is not, because you have afghan troops at 300,000 well equipped and as well equipped as any army and the air force and something like 75,000 taliban. it is not inevitable. as we await the briefing with the possibility that i may interrupt any of the guests to jump to it, joining me is new york times chief correspondent peter baker, msnbc military analyst, and medal of honor winner jacobs and jeff baker a columnist. now, i will begin with you, jeff, the article in the washington post writes about vietnam, and for president biden, who had hoped for an orderly u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan, the chaos in kabul carries echos of the fall of saigon in 1975. so do we have images of ....