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Because of an artificial deadline. >> and part of jeremy and kevins reporting is part of what is leading to this decision is that the president as it is written here is mindful of the security risks and remaining in the country longer, general. you are very familiar with the threat of isis, youve written a book about your experience in fighting isis. how real do you assess the threat of isis-k on the the ground to americans, to american troops as well as what the taliban would do if u.s. would g...

-- where with all to get them out. >> reporter: the taliban warning there will be consequences if it takes longer. one afghan security member left dead under scoring the situation as the u.s. tries to maximize the number of people it can fly out. >> were pushing the limits to do everything we can to get every single evacuee out of kabul. >> reporter: in order to speed up evacuations, the pentagon activating the civil reserve air fleet for only the third time using system aircraft from commercial...

The security of the airport to allow the airport to remain open. >> ill let the general take it. i would just say we are in daily communication with the taliban about the security situation at the airport now. our focus from a military perspective is going to be -- right now the plan is to end this mission on the 31st of august. i dont want to suggest thats not what we are planning on. as we get there, as i said earlier, we want to preserve as much capability as long as we can to continue to con...

Actually eliminated the threat of terror groups of afghanistan again, becoming a safe haven for terror groups? >> a lot depends on how one defines our goals in afghanistan. yes, we are able to dismantel destroy much of the al qaeda infrastructure in afghanistan along the afghan-packed border and we were able to kill bin laden and we were able to bring to bring a sense of normalcy to a lot of afghan lives over the last two decades and something they didnt have during the taliban, but there is the...

Think we have to acreknowledge e danger in the country is greater outside of afghanistan in terms of terrorist attack that may be organized against the homeland so there are other parts of the world where al qaeda has a bigger presence and isis has a bigger presence but over time, that could change in afghanistan. were going to have to try to keep a close watch to make sure al qaeda doesnt reconstitute itself there and take action against isis k and make sure that it doesnt pose a growing threat...

Prioritizing getting american citizens out. the pentagon acknowledging helicopters have left the airport, not once, but twice to pick up evacuees. pentagon press secretary john kirby hinting at more. >> on occasion, where theres a need and theres a capability to meet that need, our commanders on the ground are doing what they feel they need to do to help americans reach the airport. >> reporter: for now, the u.s. embassy in kabul is telling afghan special immigrant visa applicants and evacuees n...

John kirby hinting at more. >> on occasion where theres a need and a capability to meet that need, our commanders on the ground are doing what they feel they need to do to help americans reach the airport. >> reporter: for now the u.s. embassy in kabul is telling afghan special visa applicants and evacuees not to come to the airport until theyre told. with potentially little more than a week left of this evacuation effort, fear of a totalitarian taliban regime is growing. a brother received this...

Have you seen with the chinese news agency is the thing about america? dont understand is i dont understand why americans accept that this is -- united states military has the technology to capability to come in the middle of darkness to drop shadows in the night, an entire army, lay waste, and be gone before morning. we have thermal imaging technology and drones. they can see through walls and cloud cover and triple canopy forests and everything else. and we have military capability that people...

The government lists companies with the cheapest at the top, but some firms have advertised tests at lower prices, only to charge more at checkout, or the tests arent available at all. today, the government has said that 82 test providers will be given a warning about misleading pricing and could be removed altogether. 57 have already been removed from the list because they no longer exist or dont provide relevant testing services. some testing companies hope this will help the industrys reputat...

People were waiting for... all district barriers that were in place today we have started removing them all. and of the city will be clear from the barriers. we had checkpoints, we had some barriers there, and the municipality of kabul has started its work seriously and we will be carrying this out all across afghanistan, in all cities and they will be cleared out and cleaned. also, the operations of the health ministry will start. all the hospitals with its capability have started working, pati...