have not made any commitment. there was a meeting with the five countries minus china surrounding afghanistan, and they have not said they made a commitment to keep those borders open. in the past pakistan has, but those overland roots are patrolled by the taliban. are they going to let people through? they know who the point of impact are or they suspect or know were involved with the americans. there are thousands and thousands of people who are sivs and people who didn t even get through that process who should have been through that process, and then more people, the women lawyers, the judges, the teachers, others who have been prominent, judges who have put the taliban in jail. so they ve got documentation of these, they ve already been going door to door. there is plenty of evidence that they have not lived up to any of these commitments outside of kabul and their relationship at the kabul airport. in terms of that airport, obviously kabul is not the only airport in the country
multilateral initiative to continue to try to get afghan allies and u.s. citizens, dual citizens, out of afghanistan, in part by planning to reopen the country s main airport in kabul. how is that going to work, and unless and until that happens, what are the other ways out? joining us now is nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent, the host of andrea mitchell reports on msnbc, andrea mitchell. andrea, it s great to see you. it s been too long, my friend. thank you. it s great to see you, rachel. we heard a lot from secretary blinken about america s commitment and thanking our partners and talking about what has just happened. what s the nitty-gritty in terms of the plan going forward to get additional people out who the u.s. has committed to get out if and when they want to leave? this is very, very tough. it depends on relying on some very uncertain people, especially the taliban. they say that they don t rely on them, that they will trust them
we see what the taliban are going to do. and then the other thing is, what general mckenzie also emphasized is, there are now 2,000 fighters, isis-k fighters, at least, he said, hardcore isis-k fighters, many of whom were released from the jails by talibans, who taliban leaders agreed was their biggest mistake in their march to encircle and overtake kabul. many were released by the taliban. and those are the hardest of the hard. they proved what they could attempt to do tragically last week with the 13 fallen service members that they killed and so many others injured and so many, you know, more than 100, we don t even know how many, 200 afghans who died in that terrible assault, suicide bomb. but they also had the rpgs, five that were aimed at the kabul airport today. so that was by american equipment. the attack on the airport in kabul was really the opening of
states state department and the nation s diplomats. tonight america s top diplomats gave us the first outline of what that might look like going forward while he reaffirmed president biden s commitment that the u.s. government will get everybody out of that country who wants to leave. if an american in afghanistan say they want to stay for now and then in a week, a month, or a year and they reach out and say i ve changed my mind, we will help them leave. additionally, we ve worked intensely to evacuate and relocate afghans who worked alongside us. we will work to secure their safe passage. this morning i met with the foreign ministers of all the g-7 countries as well as cutter, turkey, the european union and the secretary general of nato. we discussed how we will work together to facilitate safe travel out of afghanistan, including by reopening kabul s civilian airport as soon as possible. secretary of state antony blinken announcing a
its doors and took off were general christopher donahue who was directly in charge of overseeing the kabul airport airlift, that s him here, and the image released by the u.s. department, the last u.s. soldier leaving afghanistan. also on that plane, the other man left as the last man beside him was ross wilson, the top u.s. diplomat in kabul. tonight secretary of state antony blinken gave extended remarks on the end of the military mission in afghanistan and the start of what he called the new diplomatic mission in that country, including efforts to continue to get more people out of that country, even without kabul airport as a bridgehead for doing so. one of the first concrete signs of the end of the mission today was an faa notice to airmen, which is a notice to pilots worldwide, and it was blunt as all get-out in case it was not clear before. quote, effective immediately hamid karzai international airport is uncontrolled. no air traffic control or airport services are available. a