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B-52s and mg9s. we have a significant number of rotary wick aviation on the ground including attack and lift helicopters. in addition, were working with our allies and partners, with the british rivalry company along with british special forces on the ground working with us. theres also a turkish security force and other international special operations forces. this force is capable of extracting a significant amount of people on u.s. air force aircraft. right now were averaging about 20 sortis ...

Swift taliban takeover in a matter of days. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is following it all for us from the pentagon. good evening, jen. >> good evening, bret. finger pointing has already begun. some of the images you are about to see are very disturbing. u.s. military continuing to land in kabul. more than 5,000 u.s. troops now on the ground after pulling out completely a month ago and shuttering their main air base. >> the tenth mountain division in full battle gear guardi...

Think about what it is like if you are in afghan nanny lost her brother brother or your father or your sons, my god, we promised them that we are going to stick it out. we promised the same thing to the terps. it turns out its not just 10,000 interpreters, they are close to 50,000 if you count the family members. we promise to take them out with us. thats not happening. and there are a lot of other things that are coming out of this administration that just arent true. i will give you one. the o...

Whatever were directed. >> thank you. >> and i would draw a distinction, barb, between extracting someone in an extremist condition or circumstance versus going out and collecting up large numbers of american citizens. >> but you have the capability to go out and collect americans? >> we dont have the ability to go out and collect large numbers of people, barb. >> you have 5,000 u.s. military personnel on the ground securing the area. you have small groups essentially of taliban fighters outside...

B-52s and mq-9s. we have a significant amount of rotary wing aviation on the ground including attack and lift helicopters. in addition, we are working with our allies and partners that you our british infantry rifle companies along with british special forces on the ground working with us. there is also turkish security force and other international special operations forces. this force is capable of extracting a significant amount of people on u.s. air force aircraft. right now were averaging a...

0 readout on that and also if they discussed the regional implications with respect to china and russia and how they are seizing on this the withdrawal. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich. thanks for joining us. >> martha: thank you. good afternoon. im martha maccallum in new york. breaking moments from now, for the first time, we will hear from our two top generals. mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs and lloyd austin, the secretary of defense who reportedly advised the president against a co...

0 personnel in danger, as well. kristen: sheriff martin, thank you very much. well have the latest on the fire at 4:00. tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. the abc news exclusive with president biden. his first interview since the fall of afghanistan to the taliban. president biden one-on-one with george stephanopoulos. the president said just weeks ago, a taliban takeover was highly unlikely. so, was the intelligence wrong or did the president downplay it? how the president responds...

Nato supreme commander on what the us administration could have done differently. and: the us military says it now has the capability to move up to nine thousand people a day out of kabul but how do those people get to the airport? we will speak to a former us interpreter who is in hiding in fear for his life. hello, is this taliban 2.0 — a kinder, more inclusive alternative to the group that for years had terrorised afghanistan? to listen to the groups first press conference today in kabul, t...

In terms of capability. there is no circumstance where you see people lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comparable. >> tucker: brit hume is our senior political analyst, we are happy to have him here. thank you so much for coming on tonight. so how do you assess the politics of this for the administration? >> i think this is a stain unmistakable, the viewpoints across the board of this evacuation operation, the last piece of the pullout hav...

And it was only six weeks ago, the president was insisting that this would be nothing like the fall of saigon. >> the taliban is not the -- the north vietnamese army. theyre not -- theyre not remotely comparable, in terms of capability. theres going to be no circumstance where you are going to see people being lifted off the roof of a embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not, at all, comparable. >> so, you -- you need to see saigon, right, to see the comparison. more iconic image...