speak to if that community. there is not haley voters for a traditional path there. we got to go. we could talk about this and i hope we do soon. thanks, guys. and cnncnn cnn this morning continues. good morning. let s get right to it. president biden s foreign policy set to face yet another major test as he departs today for a high stakes meeting request chinese president xi jinping on the sidelines of a big economic summit with other global leaders. we are learning of a potential u.s./china deal on fentanyl. as president biden is jug his support of israel s war against hamas with the peril around gaza s hospital. the president and the government he leads is now just three days away from a potential shutdown. a vote is set for today to avert it. the measure includes no funding for the war in ukraine or israel s war against hamas. this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. let s begin. the families of hostages being held in gaza are marching from tel av
right now on getting to august 31st and maintaining security at the airport. i think fair to say they are looking at what they could potentially do from the air with special forces. but getting the intelligence, the precise intelligence to target isis may be very difficult in the coming days. so they re focused on getting to the august 31st deadline and pressing the taliban to improve security even in these final days. the top u.s. military commander talked about what they want the taliban to do. we ve reached out to the taliban. we ve told them, you need to continue to push out the security perimeter. we ve identified some roads that we would like for them to close and they identified they will be will to close the roads because we assess the threats of a suicide born vehicle threat is high right now. so we want to reduce the possibility of one of those vehicles getting close. so we re moving very aggressively to do that. reporter: so barring the unforeseen, as we ve chatted,
they re trying to get the taliban to tighten up security. have a listen. we reached out to the taliban. we told them, you need to continue to push out the security perimeter. we ve identified some roads we would like for them to close. they have identified they will be willing to close those roads because we assessed the threat of a suicide-borne vehicle threat is high right now. we re going to reduce the possibility of one of those vehicles getting close. so we re actually moving aggressively to do that. reporter: so here we are as we come down to the final days of 20 years of the u.s. military presence in afghanistan. security in the coming hours and days will, in fact, depend on the taliban guarantee, prom its, if you will, of safe passage and maintaining security at the airport. jim? terrorist organization in control of an airport. it s remarkable. barbara starr, thanks so much. right now evacuations are ongoing despite it all at the kabul airport in afghanistan.
from a small vehicle to a large vehicle, they re working all those options. reporter: the 5,000 combat troops at the airport have strike aircraft, drones, helicopters and gunships watching over them from the air. but mckenzie acknowledges that he has to rely on taliban checkpoints to keeic bombers away from the airport. we ve reached out to the taliban. we have told them we need to continue to push out the security perimeter. we ve identified some roads that we would like for them to close, they ve identified that they will be willing to close those roads. because we assess the threat of a suicide-borne vehicle threat is high right now. reporter: mckenzie said the only way to screen people trying to get on evacuation flights is to come in close contact with them. that s increased risk for theh . troops doing the screening, but allowing a suicide bomber onto an aircraft would be an even greater disaster. norah. o donnell: it s chilling to hear the general say that today. david m