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Alliance kristen rauch who is an army veteran serving three terms working with the afghan national army troops. and i will say for this purposes of this conversation we are not focused on what happened, but what comes next. so ben, you have thousands of afghans waiting at the airport, and so i was struck by lloyd austin saying that we dont have the capability of going out to collect large people, and sod what does this evacuation operation look like? >> well, i think that first of all, you have ...

Over the country and surrounded by terrorists and the only plan left to get them out is to beg the terrorists to please allow safe passages to people that we know you dont like to the airport. listen to what secretary of defense lloyd austin actually said earlier today. >> do you have the capability to go out and collect americans? >> we dont have the capability to collect large numbers of people. its obviously not close to where we want to be in terms of getting numbers through so we will work ...

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A chilling assessment. the u.s. military does not have sufficient forces to rescue americans who cannot get to the kabul airport evacuation point. >> we dont have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people. >> reporter: the u.s. is relying on the taliban to let americans and afghan allies pass through checkpoints to reach the airport. a risky journey. today in an interview with abc news, president biden said he knew chaos was inevitable >> were going to go back in hindsight ...

>> we dont have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of people. >> so it sounds like you are saying this depends on diplomacy for the taliban, and thats it, thats the only option is getting them to agree to this? >> let me add something here. we had a couple of entry control point set it up, and a third one at abbey gate. >> the pentagon told us the u.s. military evacuated 2,000 people in the past 24 hours but the u.s. military has a capacity to fly out between five and 8,000 peopl...

Received as of a couple of hours ago a small handful of reports from american citizens who werent able to reach the airport for whatever reason. what we do know is that 6,000 people are now at the airport and 6,000 people have made it through the processing and as of a couple of hours ago we have received only a small handful of reports. >> we say we are doing everything we can but also yesterday, the defense secretary austen said the united states does not have the capacity to expand the operat...

To where we want to be, in terms of getting the numbers through. >> reporter: the pentagon says it can fly out up to 9,000 people a day, but they first have to get past taliban checkpoints to reach the at ts he nded to defend the airport and keep it operating. theyre not enough to send into the city to pick up stranded americans. >> we dont have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of-- of people. >> reporter: president biden insists all this chaos was inevitable, not the result of...

Factor and he wouldnt expect it to be otherwise and im not going to talk about specific force protection measures against terrorist threats. i think clearly we are mindful that that threat could persist. >> among those threats are isis, al qaeda, determent defense secretary lloyd austin made the following frank admission about the limits of rescuing an american stuck behind a taliban lines in downtown couple. >> we dont have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of people. >> sandra...

To get the timing right, 11 days or 11 weeks, is difficult. what youre fundamentally assessing is are the forces, not do they have the capability, the weapons, the size, but are they motivated? do they have courage and will? thats a very difficult thing for an american intelligence community to assess. now we see the main planning assumption that the biden restriction operated under, is that they would have several weeks to maintain an embassy, process visas and evacuate. that turned out to be n...

Then what happened? we began to morph into the notion that instead of having a counter-terrorism capability, to have small forces in the air or in the region to be able to take on al qaeda if it tries to reconstitute, we decided engage in nation building in nation building. this never made any sense to me. >> joining me now from the white house. kaitlan collins. are you getting a sense of the reaction inside of the white house to the presidents interview. >> reporter: i think their less focused ...