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now is evacuating american citizens, evacuating afghans who worked with us, and afghans who are at risk with the priority around women and children. and we have made significant progress in that regard. the race to evacuate both dangerous and urgent. these are live pictures from kabul near the airport where the american embassy advised u.s. citizens near three of the gates to leave immediately because of security threats. a defense official telling cnn the concerns are based on, quote, a very specific threat stream from isis-k about attacks against crowds gathered outside that airport. nick paton walsh is covering the story for us and he is live in doha. nick, 36 hours left. what more can you tell us about what appear appears to be the f stage of the evacuations. reporter: urgency for days but now clear according to a source familiar with the situation that this ends in 36 hours, friday essentially. and that will of course spark some elements of panic amongst thos ....
31st depends upon the taliban continuing to co-operate and allow access to the airport for those transporting out and no disruptions to our operations. so here is what the president is saying that the u.s. has helped evacuate more than 70,000 people since august 14th. 12,700 in 24 hours. that is the largest number in a 24-hour period so far. you see the video there. planes leaving kabul about every 45 minutes. but senior administration officials admitting tonight, quote, a lot of deserving afghans the u.s. wanted to help will be left behind. the reality is just not possible to get every single afghan who wants to leave out of the country. the taliban says that the roads to the airport are closed to afghans but open to foreigners. every day we re on the ground is another day we know that isis k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and neinnocent civilians. in the face of this. we don t know how many americans are in afghanistan. t ....
has sustained over affeghanista he has centered around trying to get the coronavirus pandemic under control and deliver benefits to people in the form of physical infrastructure, and in the form of a human benefit, child tax credits, pre-k, expanded medicare benefits. free community college. a whole range of things in the budget bill that was advanced today in the house of representatives. he is facing tremendous resistance from republicans, legislatively on covid and the states and voting rights and he said going in to 2022, and 2024, his best chance of surviving the democratic majority and also winning a second term is by acting not talking about what you want to do for people, talking about what you have done for people. today was a step on the path. mr. brownstein the budget package, huge. it could transform american lives. but, you are not convinced it s going to actually help biden or democrats politically. why? why is that? in the near term. yeah. look, i t ....
g-7 allies urging him to extend the operation beyond the 31st, a week from today. the taliban calls that date a red line. dana: the president will address the american people after the meetings today at noon eastern. right now he is meeting with his own national security team. bill: later this morning those same advisors brief house lawmakers on the crisis behind closed doors. lawmakers from both sides warning this entire situation is dire. i don t think it s possible to get out who we need to get out including our afghan partners by august 31. if by the end of the month this crew doesn t safely get every american out of afghanistan, that we will begin the process to hold each of these failed leaders accountable for their actions. the threat to the airport is very real and very substantial and this has been a concern of mine for some days now that this would make a very attractive target for isis k or elements of al qaeda. are americans going to feel they re ....
about 20,000 people remain at the chaotic kabul airport. more people keep coming. the evacuations of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. there s no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss and heartbreaking images you see on television. it s just a fact. u.s. defense officials tell cnn the military is establishing alternative groups to kabul because of the threat posed by a self-proclaimed isis affiliate called isis-k. the threat is real. it s acute. it s persistence. it s something that we are focussed on with every tool in our arsenal. we re working hard with our intention community to try to isolate and determine where an attack might come from. we re placing pair month priority on stopping or disrupting and we ll do everything we can for as long as we re on the ground to keep that from happening. but we re taking it absolutely deadly seriously. our international security edito ....