Afghans tried to make it on u. S. Aircraft. Flying personnel out of the country some hanging on to the plane and at least seven people dying according to the associated press. U. S. Officials yet to give data on how many americans are left in country and we know les about the status of the afghans who helped the united states. Thats not to leave out the every day afghans, especially women and children who now fear for their freedom under taliban rule. Joining me to break down the current State Of Affairs in afghanistan Richard Engel is live on the ground in kabul. Courtney kube is there for us and white House Reporter Jonathan La Mire in washington. Richard, another night now under taliban control. What is the sense that you are getting from afghans on the ground in kabul right now . Reporter well, there is a i dont want to call it an acceptance of the new reality because people here do not accept the new reality but theyre trying to adjust it. Adjust to it. I saw Afghans Today were go
Selling food. they re selling weapons and ammunition on the black market. and the people just got fed up. second is the taliban spent the last 17 months since the u.s. doha agreement, u.s. taliban agreement in doha negotiating the capitulations and the reason why you see the provincial capitals and then kabul fall in the last two weeks is they re collecting on the capitulations. you haven t seen big urban street fighting in afghanistan. third is the united states created an afghan security forces that were too highly dependent on the united states. look. i m a professional consultant. my job when i work with clients is to help them be the best versions of themselves, make sure that they re better off so if we part ways they soar and not crash and burn.
Hours before the taliban really was able to put its roots down and set up checkpoints and secure the city if you will. that s what they were doing today. moving around the city and afghans were coming out. perhaps speaking differently seeing what the reality is. at the airport you have afghans that can t adjust to the new reality. people that grew up over the last 20 years, made careers, had different kinds of aspirations, maybe put money in the pockets, enough to buy an airplane ticket to start a new life in a foreign country or they had a foreign visa or a scholarship program, journalists. people who see no future under the taliban. no way to accommodate them. they re stuck and heartbroken. worried about the future epa
will you punish those that worked with the americans? punish them and we will not pose any risk to them, to their property and to their life. it is our policy. we have issued an official statement in this regard. so okay. you have probably seen you have probably seen the images of thousands of afghans who are trying to leave afghanistan. if they want to leave afghanistan under the taliban s control will you keep the borders open and allow people in afghanistan to leave freely without any threats? we had let the people but it was the game of the kabul administration intelligence. kabul administration intelligence because they spread the rumors that there are planes
Between the reporters and military is what is a combat mission and what is not? the mission may not be combat that you think of in a classic sense of troops going and kicking in doors and patrolling through streets but it is still a dangerous mission in that it is a nonpermissive environment in kabul. there s the potential for danger, to confront an enemy here in this case it would be the taliban so we know that the military who are flowing in or staying at kabul airport. they re on the military side of that airport and the role right now now that all the americans and staff from the embassy are there at the airport, the goal is keep it safe enough to get the people out and to get any of the afghans out under the special immigrant program. that being said, what we have seen in the last 24 hours is people, afghan civilians