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U.s. capabilities trying to go beyond the airport to actually get folks who might be trying to get to the airport in kabul but have not been able to get there because of taliban checkpoints or other challenges there. the other thing that was so interesting to hear from the president was this slight distance between what the president is describing as the situation and what we are all seeing and hearing from our colleagues on the ground there. he suggested no military citizens are having trouble ...

To make sure that we can take care of that. >> okay. >> a follow up on expanding the mission and the risk to americans. apparently the germans are sending helicopters out throughout kabul to pick up their citizens and bring them to the airport. the reports of the french doing something similar, getting their people out. commandos going in. so, you know, why cant the americans do that? is it too risky for that kind of operation? >> i think the president is clear well do whatever we have to do to ...

You overwatch flights. any -- im not going to get into potential future operations. im not going to speculate about when or under what conditions we might expand the security per umter to that were working with. but the president is absolutely right. an expansion does incur extra risk. you have to balance risk versus gain in every particular military operation youre conducting. and that will be no for this one. >> can i fall up on were also seeing reports that there might be food, water, sanitat...

>> why did you wait so many days to have that capacity? >> weve been flying in forces consistently over the course of the last week. and we have been nothing but transparent to you about what weve been flowing in. so again, we will obviously do whatever we can and if there is a need to do this and its an operation that we can talk about, well talk about it. >> okay. >> yeah? >> defense secretary austin just now in a briefing call with house lawmakers said the reports americans have been beaten b...

Moment. it sounds like the military is trying the best that they can but they themselves dont have the answers right now. unfortunately. >> we also heard the press secretary mention that there were afghans that were credentialed and getting to check pounts near the airport and being harassed and in some cases beaten upon trying to get into the airport. does that square with some of the reports that youve been hearing and what do you know about sort of how those situations end up once all is said...

Actually despite what generals austin and milly said yesterday, you are actually going out of the airport and picking up people. can you elaborate on that? >> thank you for those reports. i cant confirm the reports at this time. >> yeah. megan? >> so i feel like were kind of bifurcating the issue between americans and afghans. you said americans are not having any issues and you settled with the taliban that theyre not going to have any issues. but have you made that same negotiation over afghan...

0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didnt have the capacity to take any more people. this ...