The u. S. Military and taliban tried to expert what authority they could. Militants with rifles kept crowds away from the Airport Gates Guarding checkpoints with trucks and at least one humvee by the roads. Many with bags at their sides numbers in the hundreds, not the thousands of previous days. The Security Situation turning the united states and the taliban into Strange Bed Fellows. Seth moulton went on a controversial and unauthorized trip to kabul this week described the scene before the bombing and how the marines are working with the taliban. Its an impossible Task Weve given them to literally sift through a sea of humanity, thousands and thousands of afghans to try to pluck out our allies, our friends and their families, their husbands, their wives, their little girls and boys, literally pull them to freedom. I expected to see a gate with marines on one side and afghans on the other. Thats not the way this could work. We have to go out in the crowd. So these marines were out th
We will have the latest on the Cities Effort to curb the from nbc News World Headquarters in new york, im joshua johnston. Welcome to the week. We begin tonight with evacuations from afghanistan. By all accounts, it is chaotic outside the airport In Kabul. Thousands of people are desperate to flee the country, as the taliban consolidate power. The British Military said today that seven people were killed in a stampede of people who were trying to get into the airport. The biden administration has come under fire for how it has handled these evacuations. The situation could be hurting the president s performance with voters too. A new Nbc Poll out today shows the president s Approval Rating has dipped low 50 for the first time in his presidency. Today, he acknowledged the realities on the ground, but defended his administrations handling of the situation. Let me be clear, evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful No Matter when it started, when we bega
Military weapon as and equipment. Including two Black Hawk helicopters. Joining me now helen cooper. The biden administration has been criticized for its strategy, its planning leading up to the fall of afghanistan. And now a major part of the Evacuation Strategy is this agreement with the taliban. On thursday here on msnbc you described the feeling inside the pentagon as, quote, a level of Despair And Depression i havent seen in a long time and people are angry and distraught. Are there concerns inside the pentagon the administration is being, i dont know, outplayed by the taliban . Well, the administration thank you for having me. The administration is trying to walk a really Fine Line right now, which is what you are seeing. They have agreement taliban commanders, including the some of the commanders close to Hamid Karzai International Airport that they will Let In afghans afghan allies of the united states who are desperate to get out of the country, that they and more pb specifica
People a day, so this is behind that pace with tens of thousands of americans and afghan allies still waiting for a way out. Cnn has also learned Military Commanders are in contact with taliban militants about security on those chaotic streets around the airport. Constant reminders of the Human Beings caught up in all of this. Thats right, especially children. New video shows a Toddler Being handed to american troops on top of the wall at the Airport Perimeter in kabul. Meantime the State Department is engaged in high level diplomatic talks with the taliban in the neutral setting of doha, where we find nick paton walsh. Good morning, the taliban starting a violent crackdown, weve all seen the images. Obviously the situation at the airport remains chaotic and tense. Who knows where this goes. What are you seeing on the ground and what do you think happens once the western media starts to leave . Reporter that is of course the major question. Weve seen initially taliban that have come to
The latest on the situation there. Todays remarks are expected to focus almost solely on Evacuation Efforts of americans and afghans. The remarks come as we just learned another troubling development. Not a single flight has left the Kabul Airport in eight hours. Let me repeat, no flights have left in eight hours. We know qatar said no to more Plane Loads of afghan. The u. S. Has evacuated about 3,000 people from kabul yesterday. Another 9,000 in total evacuated since kabul started to fall last weekend. Keep in mind the pentagon said earlier this week it hoped to quickly ramp things up to a point where they could evacuate as many as 9,000 people per day. So were basically doing what we hoped would be one days worth of work in one week. Complete being pressed repeatedly yesterday, officials have not been able to say how many americans are left. Its not just about getting people out of the airports, its about getting people into the airport. The situation outside of the Kabul Airport is