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37 that is a significant change from where we were. we know there was a case on thursday where they flew to a baron hotel and got 169 people and broughting them to the airport. that seems to have happened at least one more time. we know the british and the french military had been doing that last week. they had been going out into the city and helping some of their citizens and in some cases other citizens to get safely to the airport. the security situation that has been difficult all along sin...

This over concerns that the evacuations simply wont be done by then. the taliban pushed back this morning, saying they want all u.s. forces out of the country by the end of the month as promised. cnns john harwood joins me now. john, does the white house care about that? do they listen to the taliban? >> reporter: oh, i dont think the talibans statement is going to be determinetive of what president biden does as he has indicated. look, there have been several adjustments made to the evacuation ...

There are isis k threats, its a terrorist group in afghanistan. they are posing a threat to the airport right now so they are clearly trying to make sure thats safe so the evacuation flights can continue going out. the other thing that president biden said if americans want to get out of the country, they can get out of the country. the military is focused how to get americans to safe places and then to safely get them to the airport. we know late last week they took a helicopter. they got 169 a...

Insisting it is ramping up efforts for evacuation, approximately 3,800 people in total were airlifted out today, far fewer than the 5,700 the previous 24 hours. accounting for the delay, the joint u.s. air base in doha reaching max capacity. the base unable to accept any more afghans. earlier today, our martha raddatz speaking exclusively to secretary of defense lloyd austin. >> why arent american troops able to go out into kabul and help those americans, help those afghans who helped americans,...

Defense officials tell nbc news theres specific concern the terrorist group could target americans and the airport. the threat comes hours after president biden pledged to bring all americans home and claimed there were no instances of u.s. citizens having trouble accessing the base >> we made an agreement with the taliban, thus far theyve allowed them to go through, in their interest for them to go through. >> reporter: contradicted by his defense department, secretary austin telling lawmakers ...

Along the horizon, and it looks like a different world than the evacuation were seeing before our eyes. and thats been the situation. the u.s. military was very quickly able too20 of the airport, but the chaos outside is making it extremely difficult for these civilians and these americans to get to the transport planes. thats part of the reason why over the weekend we actually saw the u.s. military evacuate 169 people the big problem is that the reality outside is not really matching up to the ...

Chris: i want to pick up another aspect of the evacuation we know of one instanced where the u.s. sent helicopters out to a hotel near the airport to pick up 169 americans and bring them back into the airport have there been other instances where the u.s. has been outside of the perimeter of kabul airport to pick up americans either in kabul or around the country and are we prepared to do more of that? >> the president, secretary of defense made very clear that we will do what is necessary to ge...

One question people have for the white house is why the military -- were not seeing them go out and get americans in kabul, throughout kabul and bringing them to the airport since the state department says we cant ensure safe passage. president biden told us about it, went over the wall to get americans. it was 169, and bring them back. do we think that thats going to happen again? the pentagon yesterday seemed to hint that could be under way. >> it certainly could be under way. this is one of t...

French, and i know other countries have done it, sent special forces out into kabul to retrieve their citizens, and we know the united states did that in a limited capacity just at the end of last week, 169 people, but its unclear what the plans are to get the rest of the american citizens out, but we know other countries are doing it. its a possibility. but there is one person who can make that decision as every military commander in the united states has made clear, and thats president joe bid...

Aches to see what kind of pain and loss were watching on tv. that being said, he did sort of debt get a little bit more detail on what efforts were taking now to get people out. the last time we spoke to the president, the last time he spoke to the country it was unclear whether he would use american troops to try and breach that perimeter at the airport and go out and bring people who were unable to get to the flight if, to the airport. he would not go into the tactical changes that have been m...