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Pentagon revealing a briefing a short time ago there are regular communications with the taliban. Our commanders at the airport are in communication with taliban commanders on the ground outside the airport. There have been discussions, there s communication between them and us. And i would just let the results speak for themselves. I m not going to get into the details of how those discussions are progressing. Great to see. Barbara starr is at the pentagon. Reporter: john, it s remarkable enough that the u. S. Military on the ground is talking to the taliban because job number one is to keep that airport secure, not see the dire scenes that the world saw yesterday of thousands of afghans rushing to aircraft, rushing the airfield. Much calmer today and that s why they believe they can make progress in getting americans out. The estimate is 5 to 10,000 americans still in average. Many in kabul. But it could be even more than that because they are not at all certain they have a firm hand
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