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The pentagon was 2,000 people evacuated on wednesday. as nick said, the concern there is not the air lift capability. it is having people to fly out. what more are we learning about what the pentagon is saying, why the numbers are where they are? >> reporter: well, victor, as nick just so aptly explained, the problem is getting people past the taliban check points, getting them past the gates at the airport, which are manned from the inside by u.s. troops, and on to flights. the pentagon has bee...

Those u.s. citizens get out but also those endangered afghans trying to make their way to the airport as well. but it really all hinges on the taliban. the taliban right now are the ones who have the check points set up on the way to the airport and theyre making decisions about who they are letting in to those check points. those are the people who are fleeing afghanistan because they feel like they have targets on their back by the taliban and now theyre counting on them to let them through th...

Right, were sort of competency, honesty, going to do -- speak to you straight from the shoulder, he says, all the time. and that now -- those character traits get called into question just because his words arent matching up with what were seeing. >> and i think a big part of this also has to do with what is happening right now. i think when we look back on this, of course, weeks from now, years from now on how this all played out a lot will depend on how this evacuation wraps and what it looks ...

There is syndications that the americans are now getting through in some cases through the check points and that is in part due to the conversations theyre having with taliban commanders. but there are many store resist of afghans that cant get through and some american passport holders that cant get through the checkpoints. then when they get through the airport they have to go to a gate. there is two that are supposed to be open to american wheres there are u.s. consulate officers and military...

I talk to my brother and say, hey, there could be a chance for you to go to the airport and make it through the checkpoints and hopefully youll make it in a safe place. but he said, my brother said, i cannot go to kabul. im from jalalabad which is two hours drive from my home to kabul. he cannot make it because theres tons of checkpoints and all are controlled by the taliban. so think about having a document with yourself that you worked for the american forces and you go through these check poi...

Afghanistan, his friend, major thomas schueman, both of them here on this show together two weeks ago today. now, whats happened in the interim two weeks? besides, you know, afghanistan falling in its entirety to the taliban. back home in rhode island, major thomas schueman has been in repeated contact with zak in afghanistan, trying to do for zak what zak was asking of president biden. take him out of this crisis, somehow help him flee the country. major schueman had helped zak with his visa ap...

Into the military airport. and, really, that chances of getting through these checkpoints depends to a large extent on the type of fighters there are manning them. some have been ok, but then again, youve got others where fighters are extremely aggressive and quite violent as well. so, you know, its a real ordeal for these people to get through, people who have actually got foreign passports are finding it slightly easier than the ones with afghan passports, but, you know, it is still a horrendo...

Everyday. the idea, of course, is to prevent chaos, to prevent pandemonium but whats actually happening as you heard there from the very brave and talented photographer, marcus llam is that the taliban is put in charge of crowd control. the way they carry out crowd control is different. theyve been whipping people, firing shots in the air, firing shots at people. you saw that spectacularly harrowing image that he captured of a woman and a child who were very seriously injured when they were shot...

And i have flied on 20 this friday. i already filled out the application from the u.s. embassy and this is the emails that i got from the u.s. embassy. >> reporter: so did you try to get into the airport? >> yeah, i did. >> what did the taliban said? >> the taliban said we dont know. just go. we dont want to try to let you in. and they say we dont have flights. >> we dont have flights. >> they do have flights. >> youre getting the impression, john and brianna, look, im surrounded here. and every...

One telling him to go. hes afraid of sending his wife and children through check points. theres word the check points are stopping more people, and i do fault the biden administration. i think announcing in april that youre going to leave on september 11th, getting a political point was too quick. i have spent three months trying to get his family out. we were all warning the administration they werent preparing for this, and yesterday, i believe the u.s. evacuated 3,000 people. the estimate is ...