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leaders have said americans outside of kabul will be granted safe passage as long as they have proper documentation, even if that is beyond august 31st. but, from firsthand stories from americans and afghan allies on the ground too secret and controversial bipartisan congressional trip to the kabul airport, a different reality is becoming clearer on the ground. correspondent trey yingst is in doha, qatar tonight with the story. good evening, trey. bret, good evening. the clock is ticking as the world awaits american evacuations to wrap up and u.s. troops to go home. still though scenes of devastation happening outside the airport in kabul. afghan civilians weighed through sewage outside of kabul s airport. lines of people as far as the eye can see with paperwork in hand. many locals and foreigners have the correct documents to board flights out of afghanistan. but can t make it to the airfield due to taliban checkpoints and brutality outside the gates. taliban spoke ....
21 people including 7 month old twins swept away by catastrophic flash floods in tennessee. i ll talk to a mother who along with her 4 month old barely made it out of her flooded home alive. let s go outfront . good evening, everyone. i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. we have breaking news. president biden being urged by several advisors against keeping troops in afghanistan past the august 31st deadline. the reason, the deteriorating security situation on the ground. meanwhile, the pentagon needs the president to decide by tomorrow whether to extend the deadline in order to honor his promise of evacuating all americans and afghan allies. also at this hour, top intel officials just wrapped up a briefing for the house intelligence committee on afghanistan and this briefing coming as warnings grow louder and louder over the terror threat from afghanistan. jake sullivan today addressed a possible isis attack on the kabul airport after calling the threat real, acute ....
biden: for 20 years, afghanistan his minute a joint effort with our nato allies. we went in together, and we are living together. and now we are working together to bring our people and our afghan partners to safety. and there s been plenty of time to criticize or second-guess this operation is over. but now, now and focusing on getting this job done. paul: let s bring in four-star general jacking the fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman of the institute for the study of war rated general welcome and is always and i want to zero in on that point about the nato general i mean, i ve been reading the british press and listening to what the europeans are saying they are furious about the way this has been handled and they are really are also not very happy to wonder what your sources say about the degree of coordination and getting their citizens out pretty when you hearing and what you think. guest: well i can just only underscore that, it s quite unusual, i ha ....
grows only worse with the severe weather there. new reporting on the after math of saturday s deadly earthquake. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, august 18th. it s good to have us all together, joe. yeah, great to be together. we have a lot to talk about today. willie, though, let s just start by talking about and you and i maybe we shouldn t reveal this to everybody, but, you know, i m frighteningly good in two things, and we don t talk about it a lot. one is parcheesi, the second is fortune telling. i m a great fortune teller. i have been predicting the rise of a team out of the east for quite some time now. you laughed, you mocked me. lemere mocked me. the yankees were coming, what happened, of course, willie, call me dom if you would like. it did help, the trade deadline. you guys set up murderers row, and our front office decided to get a one eyed goat and a six-week subscription to popular mechanics and that was just online. it wasn t ....
people climbing onto planes, flooding the tarmac. the u.s. military has managed to secure its half of the airport and flights are taking off, both military and commercial. according to the pentagon, this is happening but the situation is still tense and very, very desperate. chief foreign correspondent richard engle has the latest from kabul. richard, what are you seeing? reporter: the evacuation flights are coming in frequently now. you can sense there s urgency about them. they land, they re only on the ground a few minutes before they take off again. it is clear the u.s. wants to wrap it up as quickly as possible. kabul airport this morning is back up and running, evacuation flights for u.s. embassy personnel and contractors in full swing. flights were stopped yesterday and tens of thousands of afghans stormed onto the runways desperate to leave, clinging onto aircraft, trying not to be left behind as the americans pull out. u.s. troops found themselves overwhelmed ....