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In late August I wrote about two outstanding Afghan women who were struggling to escape Taliban pursuit. One had made it out of the country and the second was still hiding in Kabul. Miraculously, Najlla Habibyar, a U.S. green card holder and U.S. aid worker, has now escaped to Abu

Digital dunkirk, private citizens using their connections, getting people out of afghanistan. and its wonderful that all these amazing people are doing this. it also is a huge condemnation of the inability of the u.s. government, dont you think? >> well, again, i dont know how you ultimately, you know, argue with getting 130,000 people out of afghanistan. thats a pretty stunning number that the united states was able to get out. i understand that doesnt encompass every single person that we woul...

Alike. connected, was able to get him to kandahar to kabul and he is now in texas and is able to speak about it and then a cia officer and a friend from college reach out and said, hey, im working with digital dunkirk and would you be interested in joining and when i got in, connected with a group of folks who had the ability to provide sensitive logistics and then it became an operation to support the state department. they were telling americans or anybody rather, citizens, lprs, whatever you ...

Who served in iraq and afghanistan and hes been one of the members of digital dunkirk helping to coordinate evacuations out of kabul. alex, thanks so much for being here. full transparency for your viewers. ive tried to help your mission in various ways, including giving some names and passport numbers to you. i want to start with your reaction to this news today that the taliban allowing this flight from kabul to qatar. does this give you hope that more evacuations might be allowed? >> i do. ac...

Miles of this effort. this should be the united states, its government, its military, they should be doing this. i mean, when the history is written of all of this, we have never seen anything like this before. where veterans are working with people state identify and other allies to get people out of a country because the united states officially left. corey mills, as i a said -- >> its a dunkirk, chris. >> yes. thats not polite to say to dunkirk, digital dunkirk and what happened there. its a ...

Before. where veterans are working with people state identify and other allies to get people out of a country because the united states officially left. corey mills, as i a said -- >> its a digitaunkirk, chris. >> yes. thats not polite to say to dunkirk, digital dunkirk and what happened there. its a hashtag that originated. we didnt think it up. there is a huge effort state ide side and country coordinated by veterans and allies to get people out. i will keep covering it. thank god you are safe...

People. and if if it was possible to get americans out, if they just had the right paperwork and all these kinds of things you wouldnt have things like digital dunkirk and have planes sitting there on end. its because not supposed to use the word hostage but thats, again, the problem they have they dont like the words rather than the reality on the ground that makes those words applicable. and i dont know what else you are supposed to call tease people that the government wont let leave unless c...

Staff, ron klain, on trying to get americans out. listen. >> we are going to find ways to get them, the ones that want to leave, to get them out of afghanistan. we believe its around 100. were in touch with all of them who weve identified. we know many have family members, many want to stay. the ones that want to leave, were going to get them out. jillian: youre hearing the white house say about 100 people theyre trying to get out. youre operating this digital dunkirk. you have a lot of informat...

Congressman accuses the taliban of refusing the let the six planes leave an airport in the northern part of afghanistan. >> this is turning into a hostage situation where theyre not going to allow american citizens to leave until they get full recognition from the united states of america. theyre going to demand more and more, whether it be cash and legitimacy as the government of afghanistan. jillian: the biden administration told fox news it is not aware of any hostage situation and has not co...