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Against a very defiant taliban? here in kabul, the taliban are still struggling to get the capital itself on its feet. technical experts are being brought in to try to get the flights going at kabul international airport. we here at the united nations has resumed some of its humanitarian aid flights going to the northern city, and a southern city of kandahar where airfields are now operating, but there are still massive queues at the bank branches which are open here. and still a great deal of u...

This very defiant resistance hold out against a very defiant taliban? here in kabul, the taliban are still struggling to get the capital itself on its feet. the qataris are brining in technical experts to try to get the flights the qataris are bringing in technical experts to try to get the flights going at kabul international airport. we hear that the united nations has resumed some of its humanitarian aid flights going to the northern city of mazar—i—sharif, thesouthern city of kandahar wh...

Routes outside of airports. but we just want to know what it is theyre doing, what theyre planning to do. our folks dont necessarily have time. >> thats the problem. the commodity here is time, and its been cut short by our exit, and it does sound like theyre behind. and look, well get to why you had to be involved in the first place. lets deal with the specifics. so sarah and a bunch of the kids who were with her are on the move but not out, and what is the challenge? >> well, the challenge is ...

Our mission completely depended on the afghans who taught us culture and who translated for us. and they are telling us that we are in hiding, we are going to be killed, we are being hunted door-to-door and having to move locations. they are moving, many of them moving out of kabul to get out of, you know, what feels like just a rash of door-to-door searches, and only the find that they dont feel safer in other places where they have gone. and theres no coherent plan to get any of these folks ou...

What do you say to that? please put me in touch with tha american citizen that wants to be there with them. i will show you the desperate pleas we are getting night afte night of please help us get out we are trapped and stranded. right now because they shut dow the airfields they would keep the troops here so he kept his promise but broke the promise o the american citizens. now we have to smuggle them out. he bears responsibility its no just one big mess up there is a lot of small ones. night ...

>> yes. >> can you ta you can to what its been like going through this? >> he has told me, he said "i will keep trying to my last breath," and the least that i and these countless other veterans, the association of wartime allies, all the folks doing good work to stay with our allies, to find any way that we can out, we will also try to our last breath or til theirs. theyre being hunted. we are in a race against time. we need our government to act, to make arrangements for safety border passage,...

As well, we turn to diplomatic efforts and rely on the taliban to get these afghan wartime allies out of the country. what does that mean? how are they going to get them out of the country? >> i hope they come up with something. there are airfields across afghanistan that flights can be brought to if they can make agreements with taliban to answer the airspace and evacuate people. then this must be done. but agreements can be made with neighboring countries to admit afghans with at least a certa...

Offered and the decision was not to accept that, then not only incompetence that actually bad military judgment. steve: turning to the border situation. to make sure we get all allies out. there is no short. and then we have to extend it and then another 6000 troops then we take the regional airfields. that obviously will not happen. biden is sticking to the air plan - - the plan despite that. and leon panetta said we have to go back and at some point because of the complete mass that has been m...

Qaeda out of their prison. maybe they normally fight each other, i know they have one enemy, that is us. my question is what in the world could be the plan to get american citizens out of that country once every troop has left. diplomacy and economics? is that effective. >> a great question, it is what democrats and republicans have been asking this administration. in a private meeting with house of representatives, and secretary of defense, secretary of state, director of national intelligence,...

Qaeda out of their prison. maybe they normally fight each other, i know they have one enemy, that is us. my question is what in the world could be the plan to get american citizens out of that country once every troop has left. diplomacy and economics? is that effective. >> a great question, it is what democrats and republicans have been asking this administration. in a private meeting with house of representatives, and secretary of defense, secretary of state, director of national intelligence,...