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Here for his security and for the safety of his family. he had worked for five years in kabul for the u.s. embassy as a locally employed staff member which is a job obviously that put his family at considerable risk. his wife and five childrens ages 4 to 13 got stuck in afghanistan while making one last trip to see family. they rightfully anticipated they would not be able to after the draw down of u.s. troops but were skcheduled to return to th u.s. in september. they were on a flight out of ha...

0 much but if it is significantly pushed back and what are you seeing in terms of flow to abbey gate. is it less people being allowed in or still a rush of people? which could lead to some -- what are you seeing today? >> so, what i can report as my discussion with the commanders there on the the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban of how they are executing their check point operations and communicati...

Rapidly as possible. >> general, a lot of people were surprised to hear general mackenzie today say that the taliban had, indeed, thwarted attacks in their work at the check points outside the airport. you and i on our broadcast so many weeknights over these past two weeks have talked about, you know, rethinking the wisdom of limiting ourselves to that one airport with one runway in crowded kabul, though bagram, of course, is over an hour to the north. be that as it may, the general was, it seem...

One on my team hes a former -- my former interpreter who is now a u.s. citizen desperately trying to get their family out because theyre threatened because of his service for our country. and we are working together day and night to connect with, we have a list of approximately 150 afghans that includes family members who are desperate to get out, many of them hold valid sivs, the valid special immigrant visas theyre valid and we promised them if you have this visa, you can go to the united stat...

We have heard about the taliban having check points outside of the airport and the city. the united states have made it clear theyre suppose to be responsible for the air outside of the airport. we spoke with a spokes person here yesterday. they made it clear they want the americans to leave, they want them to leave safely. thats the word of the taliban. if that is accepted by the biden administration it would be a situation in which we have to rely on what the taliban says. moving forward you w...

Children some of whom are rather young. what about folks who fall into that category? >> reporter: i dont have the absolute concrete answer with you on that and im pretty sure the u.s. team there would be -- theyre aware of that case doing what they could to get them on to the airport. certainly american citizens and their immediate family appear to be the hard core priority here. theres been very courageous work, much kept in secret for obvious reasons it seems by u.s. troops done their best to...

Charge of security closer to the hotel. >> reporter: the taliban do all of the security, they control afghanistan. it is now the islamic emrat of afghanistan. it is a taliban country except for a mountainous area putting up some say heroic, some say a doomed resistance movement, but the taliban control the country. they are patrolling the outer perimeter, theyre controlling check points throughout the city, theyre limiting people to get to the airport, they are trying to find isis fighters becau...

Americans go? are they getting through check points through the airport. whats the situation? >> we are given specific directions to individuals. when they should come to the airport and where they should meet. we are not going to detail it here or any public manner. pay attention to security alerts and contacts receiving from us or our coalition partners. >> there had been warnings of this. specific indications of this being planned -- >> i am not going to get into specific intelligence and i w...

Aircraft that dont have those systems. so with our isr, we look at the approach and departure pattern to see if we sign of something that might post a threat. thats one of the things that we look at throughout the day and throughout the night as we conduct our operations. really, the aircraft, the only way we get people out of there. were keenly sensitive to our aircraft. >> one more question. we have to keep moving and then give the general a chance to close out. >> general, i know you said ear...

Assurance of more attacks prior to getting everybody up and out of there, what is your stance now other than force protection? do you get small? do you retract your footprint, or do you try to expand, try to take on one or more check points to create a larger safe zone knowing the safe zone you had this morning was easily violated? >> well, from an emotional standpoint i dont like the idea of outsourcing our security to the taliban. however, theres a very practical situation here in the sense th...