Reporters, now. Welcome to Inside Politics sunday im Kaitlan Collins in today for abby. We start with Breaking News out of afghanistan. Taliban representatives are inside the president ial palace in kabul negotiating a peaceful surrender of the capital according to the taliban spokesman. The groups fighters are on stand by on the edge of the city. Meanwhile, 5,000 u. S. Troops are in or on the way to kabul to assist in a complete evacuation of the u. S. Embassy. Cnns Chief International Correspondent is in kabul. What is going on given the conflicting reports were hearing . Is the afghan government Still Standing . Reporter well, define Still Standing, kaitlan. Technically speaking i guess they are but the fact that you now have eight or nine according to our source Taliban Representatives from the Doha Contingency in the president ial palace hammering out a deal to come up with a sort of interim government if you will, some kind of peaceful power sharing agreement, tells you that thin
Momentum. Sources tell cnn the u. S. Is completely now pulling out of the embassy In Kabul over the next 72 hours. What youre looking at is video, Cnn Shot of some of the helicopters that are shuttling employees from the embassy to the airport to be evacuated. Remember it was just on Thursday President biden had said some would be evacuated. It has escalated to all. The president also sending another 1,000 troops to carry out the operation, which brings the total to 5,000. Cnn Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward is with us from kabul. When we talked to Nick Paton Walsh earlier, and i know he is near where you are, he describes the situation this morning as that he is stunned. What is your assessment . Reporter i think stunning is a pretty good assessment. I mean, this news that we are just receiving from a source inside the president ial palace that eight or nine of the taliban representatives who are a part of the Qatar Delegation are currently in the president ial palace
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