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This is their country. >> yes. i get the argument. i get the argument for sure. i understand. ambassador omar samad, its good to have you on. we appreciate your perspective. >> thank you. well, the delta variant is pushing covid hospitalizations to levels not seen in months in this country. also causing a surge in cases among children. a new cnn analysis shows which groups of children are being most impacted by coronavirus. youll want to see these numbers. plus, former president trump is thr...

Plane take off. nick payton walsh, you have been covering the terror threat to the airport as well. what effect should we expect on the evacuations going forward? >> reporter: yeah, im sure this will have a very chilling effect on the evacuation as we understand it in its sort of closing phases. the key thing from the pentagon spokesman kirbys tweets is outside karzai international airport. there is a clear line where the airport begins and where it ends. also, too, where the u.s. or nato-contro...

For days and nights on end, hoping for a slim chance to get through those taliban checkpoints and the threats and on one of the few remaining flights out of the country. ive spoken to people who have tried to go through this. you see the smoke dispersed there, most likely to control the crowds. a local journalist who shot this video says the taliban even sprayed water on people to push them away. theyre not allowing access for many afghans. our team of reporters covering this developing story fr...

Expect to be still be doing the large bulk of processing of applicants, of afghan evacuees by the weekend. so as the 36-hour window left for them to work in, less now, in fact, given the time currently in kabul. so this operation coming certainly to a close. doesnt mean, for example, if an american passport holder turns up saturday, sunday theyll be refused evacuation, but that the large numbers weve been seeing daily, remarkable that they are, in the tens of thousands now reduced, though, to 13...

Trump including his wife and children. it will rest with the current president and administration. cnn legal national security analyst joins us now to discuss. good to have you this morning asha. so, president does this all the time, right, tries to block access to documents, to testimony, et cetera. can he block this access? >> well, jim, its going to be an uphill battle for him this time. so, executive privilege is not a personal privilege. it is a separation of powers, principle, that protect...

Americans will be gone. this is a hostage crisis of the biden administration construction and yesterday we heard tony blinken saying 1500 americans is in conceivable that they would be evacuated by august 31st. under any circumstance. and that doesnt -- lets not forget the green card holders and the siv 1 visa holders and others. so it seems that the evacuation surely will be halted or suspended and maybe it is over. >> peter burgen, one final question, the taliban, the u.s. one evacuationplace ...

Time. so you can imagine its going to be very busy there right now while they try to tend to those who may be wounded and try and determine exactly what has happened. and, of course, as cnn has reported for several days now, the u.s. has been very concerned about the threat of an attack at the airport from isis-k, essentially, isis in afghanistan. as you have reported, jim, there is very specific intelligence for the last several days that isis-k was planning an attack at the airport. we dont kn...

Whether the u.s. military personnel at the airport went outside of the wire to respond to the situation, we just dont know that information at this point. but again, this is the impetuous for why president biden has wanted to get u.s. troops, those nearly 6,000 who arrived in kabul to facilitate this evacuation, outside of kabul, outside of harms way. of course it is a cost benefit analysis here for the president as he tries to evacuate americans and afghans that have helped the u.s. >> it is al...

And i suspect the courts will expedite this because i dont think there is a really compelling argument here for him in his personal capacity, you know, or as a former official to say these things need to be protected. if he comes up with some great legal argument that really overrides the current administrations argument, thats one thing. but i think that the delay will be far less than when he was actually president himself. >> asha, thanks so much for breaking it all down. >> thank you. well...

And we will help you get there. >> its a sad fact. flights may be taking off, but access to that airport is a problem, even for americans. kylie atwood, thanks very much. president biden has been presented with contingency plans, but he is standing by that august 31st withdrawal deadline. cnns jeremy diamond joins me from the white house. jeremy, i wonder, will anything move the president on this? i mean, if you have a line of buses of americans still cant get into the airport, thats americans...