airport opening and functioning if there are afghans, americans who need to get out beyond the end of the month. there certainly will be. it email be interesting to see how america executes on the promise made yesterday to get them out. geoff bennett, thanks so much. joe, that s the question now, on september 1st, if the troops are gone, there s still americans or allies there what does that look like based on what secretary blinken said yesterday, how does the world do it and what s the united states role in that. let s bring in he len cooper and sam stein and david leonard to get those answers. helene, the president is holding strong to the august 31st deadline, wants to get the troops out of there, and yet we see a package that there s
this will be forced to the doorstep again and we ll have to make these decisions anyway. short term, short of reinserting thousands of troops which is what it would require to take bagram back, what to do about august 31st? would you extend the deadline until we find those thousand americans and make sure they want to leave and get them out? what about the remaining sivs and afghans that run a risk? where would you draw the line and would you extend it further? i would if i needed to. the insertion of thousands of troops. we have 5,000, 6,000 troops in kabul that we had to insert because of this. we have to determine do we want to follow through on our word or not, where did the august 31st deadline come from? president biden said donald trump gave me a may 1st deadline, and i said we will get out now. he initially said september 11th and they realized the pr
you for coming up. so what does president biden do next. there aren t many good options from this point. throughout the day he has been locked with his advisors in the situation room at the white house. the word is that he is sticking to the august 31st deadline, but it would seem from what we have just heard and with specific threats ongoing thigs will have to change. the president had warned there would be a swift and forceful response to any attempts to get in the way of the withdrawal. barbara plett usher is in washington .itisa . it is a difficult day because of the high number of military casualties and of course this is the first military casualty in afghanistan in 18 months at least since former president trump made that deal with the taliban which required them to stop attacks and
blocking their aunt from getting through the checkpoints. she s told you don t have a guardian with you, you can t travel without a male. she s told your paperwork is incorrect. given different excuses. peter alexander reporting there. let s bring in geoff bennett. good morning. good morning. help our viewers sort this out. we heard president biden is sticking to the august 31st deadline, come hell or high water. then yesterday we had the secretary of state tony blinken saying there s no deadline getting people out of the country, so which is it? reporter: i ll explain it this way. president biden is moving forward with withdrawing all u.s. troops by this august 31st date. what you heard from secretary blinken is he s saying if if there are afghans and even americans who remain in country after that august 31st exit deadline, he says that they will use every resource available,
asked for two contingency plans. if the us were to remained past the august 31st deadline and then, a contingency plan if the military withdrew and how to get everyone out, including american allies that wanted to come. this is the type of attack that we has been warned about. the imminent threat of a suicide bomber using a vehicle or vest was measured as more likely than unlikely and we have seen that come to pass. americans have been told to stay away from the airport. we still have 1500 in the country. we are still waiting on details