up. this is a dangerous and difficult situation. and there s no question that it s probably joe biden s worst nightmare to lose 13 marines as a result of what s happened here. this has to be the worst day in his administration. so he is sticking with the august 31st deadline. he made it clear after that they ll do whatever they can. but he is not extending it. it is what it is is what he says. do you agree with that? is it right to stick with this august 31st date? well, erin, the bottom line is that our work is not done in afghanistan. i know we ll be removing our troops by a certain date. but the bottom line is, our work is not done. we re going to have to go after isis. i m glad the president said we re going to hunt them down and pay a price for what they
insurgency, counterterrorism, nation building, none of this was clarified outside the war on terror at the outset of the invasion on afghanistan, and this is a warning sign that we have to be more precise and think of the long term but in a way that tethers what we do, how long we do it. that s maybe a later piece of the discussion of what s happening today. and we also hear the august 31st deadline, future of afghanistan is still unknown. what are you watching for next regarding the deadline and evacuations? yeah. i mean, who knows what s going to happen next in terms of the deadline. the biden administration may want to get out, may not be able to. i think the burden is on the taliban, how the taliban respond to this is going to be important in the cycle. this is the same 24 hour period that they reached out to other nations to recognize them as the government of afghanistan. so it is on them to take the
sir, what will you do if americans are still there after the deadline? no? you will be the first person i ll call. meanwhile, in a statement to fox news tonight, the bipartisan problem solvers caucus is urging the administration to reconsider its timeline and provide a clear plan to congress that will result in the completion of our shared national objectives, that is to say to get americans, or afghan partners, and others out of the country safely, even if it means going past that august 31st deadline, shannon feared shannon: so, kevin, the administration has been under pressure to specifically identify the number of americans we know who are still there in afghanistan. state department today forced to clear up some of the mixed messaging we are getting. what can you tell us? mixed indeed. after telling us for days they did not know the actual numbers of americans still afghanistan from a northern number making it out on flights, today didn t bin administration finally off
national guard. it s so bad in my state i m sending national guardsmen into hospital. the other side of his mouth, but you may not do these mitigation efforts at your small business, you may not require masks, vaccines. they re conceding the problem is grave in their states yet not letting school districts in the case of florida or small business in other states do the things they need to do to get on top of the virus. it s mystifying but scoring political points. there s more to say about covid across the country. but we want to turn to afghanistan, five days left to meet with withdrawal deadline. as many as 1,500 americans still need a way out of the country. reporter: with the desperate rush to leave before the august 31st deadline, the biden administration estimated 1,500 americans are still stranded in
events occurred here, geoff. and now, ann guerin, you come to us with the experience of covering the white house, foreign policy and national policy, and this is the first time that u.s. service members have been killed in afghanistan since february 2020. and how do you think that the administration plans to respond to this? geoff, they have no good options to respond. the president s options are to speed up the evacuation of the exit of the u.s. forces ahead of the august 31st deadline, and speed up the evacuation of any remaining americans, and we don t know what that number is, but it is in the neighborhood of 500 and move it up and get people out quicker or say that he wants to stay longer to make