Welcome to Prime Time weekend. Im nicolle wallace. Lets get right to the weeks top stories. We talk a lot around Split Screens around here and the earth one, earth to of it all, but this might be the ultimate political Sprint Screen Split screen. Barnstorming through Battleground States like a heatseeking missile, while the other has been mostly out of sight this week. Hanging out, at maralago. One side is offering joyous, warrior vibes, while the other is offering whatever they call Donald Trumps rambling, apocalyptic, life filled, divorce from reality. To say nothing of the growing enthusiasm gap. Tonights rally in arizona a week of rockstar receptions to the democratic ticket. Every Battleground State they have stepped foot in from pennsylvania to wisconsin to michigan. Harris and walz have committed crowds that Donald Trump makes clear he dreams of. People standing in line for hours, walking miles to get to their rallies, crowds so enormous they spilled out across airplane hangars.
Conversations you might have missed. Jonathan martin, lets ed begin with you. Reaction from milwaukee, reaction from the aaron from everything we are hearing from r biden world . Welcome i think that there is an extraordinary scene, joe, that we have not in a mop modern american politics, whichs is one Partys Convention totally eclipsed by the other party that shattered in and around the convention was not nd about Jd Vance, it was you know what . Biden maybe forced to drop out and plotting asked what the an implications of that are, housing he could go and then whether or not he lays hands on his vp for trying to win her as his successor and then their convention in chicago and what o it looks like. That is the conversation here, at least with the political process, the delegates, obviously are still enraptured by all things back, but joe, hi the Operative Class is transfixed by this story taking place. You know, jonathan, we have been quoting you. So, q this might be like a Funn Wins
The u. S. Has credible intelligence that isis has both the capability and planning to carry out such attacks. This according to a u. S. Defense official i have spoken to. Security concerns around the airport are one of the major reasons president biden cited for sticking to his august 31st deadline for the withdrawal of all u. S. Forces. The white house just announced that about 19,000 people were evacuated in the past 24 hours, people like those you re seeing there. More than 82,000 people in total have been airlifted over the course of the last 11 days. We re expecting a live update from that pentagon podium this hour. We ll bring it to you live. We re covering all the fastmoving developments out of afghanistan. Let s begin with cnn s nick paton walsh who is in qatar where many of these evactuation are going. We also have atika shubert. Nick, this has been described as acute, credible and specific. What are you hearing? reporter: i can only agree with the notion that isisk, if they r
Question what s going right? what s going well? dana: the white house has thoughts they want to spin you on. To that end the president is plowing forward with the deadline of august 31 despite our allies pleading for more time to get their people out. The decision is also drawing scrutiny from lawmakers at home. Thousands of americans that president biden stranded behind enemy lines. Instead of spending every minute working to get them out, he put a shot clock on them saying there is only seven days left to get all americans out. Our office alone has received over 6,000 requests. Many of these requests are from families with multiple people seeking support. President biden has signed a death warrant for thousands of afghans who helped us and he is washing his hands of afghanistan at our peril as a nation. I do not believe this can be accomplished by august 31 and i have requested they encourage the president in the strongest possible terms to reconsider that deadline. Bill: that s a de
Capitol hill. And so richard, there are six days left now. Can you take us inside the situation there on the ground and is that going to be enough time to get everyone out? reporter: well, the question is what is everyone. And there has been a lot of confusion. What people are sometimes failing to realize is that this is one of the poorest countries on the planet. And this evacuation has also created an expectation, an opportunity, a hope for many afghans that if they can get to the airport and they can get in, they can get out of this country and start a new life. And according to diplomatic sources i ve been speaking to in the region, many are doing that. About half of the people i was told are not necessarily people who would qualify for special immigrant visa, they are just people seeking asylum. And that is creating a tremendous backlog at the holding centers, many people arrive without documents, they are unaccompanied minors. And there are still crowds rushing to get to the airp