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0 tkpwaeud. basically you have to get your troops out on time. the presidents press secretary will take additional questions after this. we will stay tune for that. thank you for being with us. god bless for our troops and the families getting a tough call today. that is it for us. "special report" is up next. >> >> bret: good evening, welcome to washington im bret baier. the deadliest day for troops in more than a decade. two suicide bombers detonating explosive vests they were wearing outside ...

0 operation, which says you have some fidelity on the intelligence. thats different than a lot of what i saw. bottom line, if they had that fidelity, eventually they will find these guys. all right. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers here around the united states and around the world. the horrific attack outside the kabul airport. moments ago, president biden honored the heroes of the mission in afghanista...

Airport. if you abandon afghanistan, which it has happened to us before, of course once again we will be the primary victims. but the threat and misery of it does not spare the rest of the international community. and that has been the unfortunate consequence of it that we have seen before. so at this juncture given that we have very limited options left, ensuring that access to afghanistan is not completely blocked is absolute necessity and essential. and as i have been calling for out 69 box a...

Have very great concerns because the british us relationship is extremely important notjust for our country important not just for our country but important notjust for our country but also for the world. it is a valuable relationship between two of the most important countries in the world. and the nato alliance is extremely important, in particular as the threat appears to be growing around the world from china and from russia, it is essential that nato has credibility and stands against that ...

Secondly, it is the international assistance and how it would be provided to the new afghan government as well as the terms and conditions of the engagement with the upcoming afghan government. but most importantly to secure that leverage, it is very important to ensure that the afghanistan airport remains open. >> and you have been asking the international community to focus, strategize and think outside the box. what do you think is possible at this juncture? >> well, at this juncture, the imm...

What do you want to say to him? >> thanks for having me on. we had 44 organizations sign up this weekend to tell president biden it is essential he meet with us to hear from us. i as an iraq veteran left my interpreter back in iraq. i didnt have a choice. policymakers make those decisions. we have generations who served in afghanistan, people on the ground, we dont want to make a liar out of home. we want to make sure every one of those interpreters, afghans hosted by our side for 20 years of wa...

How that humanitarian helps coordinator. probably the united nations and then a sense of solidarity to accept afghans in various countries. i think thats essential if were going to keep some self—respect in moral terms. the british prime minister wejust heard once assurance from the taliban that those who want to leave have an assurance that they can leave beyond the 31st of august. how does that work and do your monitors on the ground, are we talking about them walking across land borders, ho...

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And the numbers are daunting because we have to pretty much have all of the adults and adolescents vaccinateed to stop this virus. this will be the challenge closing that 80 million gap. >> good segway to the question i want to ask now is that dr. fauci was on with my colleague anderson earlier tonight. he says that if most people eligible people got vaccinated or get vaccinated, that we could have this under control by 2022. okay? so we have been at this since march of 2020 and really, what is ...

Take? >> well, actually, i agree with tony. i agree with dr. fauci that actually we could have it much sooner. we could be out of this by the end of the year if we got everybody vaccinated. but thats the problem. and, you know, the mandates will only get us so far, and i think the public service announcements will only get us so far. theres one thing the biden administration has not done that i think is going to be essential if were really going to get to that benchmark of stopping transmission,...