Tony blinken warning a catastrophe on the ground in afghanistan when the u. S. Withdraws. It is the situation we are seeing right now. The diplomat calls for a swift evacuation of afghanistan. The cdc reports covid19 for children reaching the highest as ever. D. C. Police arrested a man who he claims to have a bomb. Lets bring in John Harwood and author of Joe Biden, the life, the run and what matters now. John, the president is insisting the afghanistan withdrawal is going as well as it could have. But in the memo raises questions about his Administration Handling of it. What do you know . Well, look, theyre clearly people within the government who felt there was greater urgency to the situation than the administration was reflecting. We have seen it in the state department memo, we have seen it in the leaks of the Intelligence Community suggesting there were some dire prediction in the Intelligence Community, of Course President Biden and chief of Staff Milley had said that there was
The desperation is building for thousands and thousands of americans and afghan allies who are trying to escape from afghanistan. Here is what we know right now. We know that 3,000 people were evacuated in the last 24 hours on 16 Military Transport flights. That is a number that includes 350 americans and u. S. Permanent citizens. Now, for people on the ground, trying to get out is simply terrifying. This is harrowing. You see a video here of a young child being handed to american troops on top of a wall at the Airport Perimeter there In Kabul. President biden will be briefed on afghanistan later this morning and will address the nation at 1 00 p. M. Eastern. All u. S. Senators will also be briefed virtually this afternoon. We also have New Details about a classified cable sent to the State Department by u. S. Diplomats in mid July Calling for swift action to prevent a catastrophe in afghanistan. And in an extraordinary move, the top u. S. Commander in afghanistan has been leading the
Country and we build a database. But lots of americans dont deregister. So a number of people come, they sign up and then they leave and never let us know they left. So we cant know for certain exactly how many americans in country. We will get any american who wants to get to the airport and who we get in contact with who says, i want to get out and get on a plane. We will make that happen. This is a risky operation. We right now have established contact with the taliban to allow for the Safe Passage of people to the airport and that is working at the moment. One of the contingencies we are very focused on, laser focused on, is the potential for a Terrorist Attack by a group like Isis K which is a sworn enemy of the taliban. So thats the president s national Security Adviser. Thats a heck of a claim he just made. If youre an american and want to get out of there, theyll get you out of there. The president said they can Air Lift 5,000 to 9,000 people a day currently out of kabul. So fa
Good evening from washington, d. C. I am zerlina maxwell, in for chris hayes. We are seeing a backlash around the country to red states bans on Mask Mandates, especially in schools. And texas, a School District is defying greg Abbotts Ban by adding face coverings to their dress codes. They are just one of the many districts taking on the governor. In south carolina, seven districts, including charleston county, are requiring masks despite a state ban. And in miamidade, the School Board voted to approve a Mask Mandate in defiance of an Executive Order from the republican governor, Ron Desantis. I let you a county, its also enforcing masking. I will speak to the superintendent of that district, later in the. Show its the same story over, and over, and. Over republican governments put these nonsensical regulations into place, in spite of warnings from Public Health officials and experts. And they know that regulations are nonsense and will be challenged, they are doing it for political re
Since last saturday. But many more are still waiting. Richard engel documented his own journey at the Kabul Airport and filed this report. Reporter thousands of afghans were evacuated overnight from Kabul Airport. Theyre thankful to be escaping taliban rule, but it isnt pretty to flee a war zone. We watched one group of hundreds of afghans gathered in front of the Departure Hall leading to the runways. They wait outside for hours until the planes arrive. Surrounded by trash, always under guard. Most arrive here already exhausted because to get here they had to navigate through taliban fighters. Who control the airport perimeter and whose idea of Crowd Control is using guns and whips. Outside the airport people dont let me to go in. Did you see the taliban beating people . Yeah. Beating and shooting. They run behind you with the ak47. Boom, boom, boom. What do you think about what is happening right now to your country, to you . Our country is like now its finished. No more afghanistan.