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Quote, the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled calling for, quote, answers and accountability. the white house saying it does not have any direct response to members of congress. >> it is easy to throw stones or be a critic from the outside. its harder to be in the arena and make difficult decisions. >> jessica dean joins us now from capitol hill. is it clear when mccarthy has in mind? because we should also point out it was president trump and mccarthy backed him on t...

If they wanted to keep with this august 31st deadline of a full withdrawal of u.s. military, they would have to start bringing people out several days in advance. as you know, alex, were only a couple days from the august 31st deadline. we also learned more specifics about the evacuation process. the number of u.s. military aircraft that have gone out of afghanistan in the last 24 hours is pretty consistent with where its been over the last several days. there were 32 u.s. military aircraft with...

President trump did the deal with the taliban to pull out in may. but now that president biden is in place they think we should stay. >> reporter: but some more democrats are more critical. new jersey democratic senator bob menendez said in a statement the united states, quote, cannot trust the taliban with american security. pennsylvania representative susan wild writing in a tweet, quote, the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled, calling for, quote, answers and accoun...

They in kabul and are they able to actually get them to the airport safely and get them out on evacuation flights. despite the fact that there was this very deadly attack on thursday at kabul airport, evacuations continue. as you mentioned, more than 100,000 people, according to the u.s. government, have now been taken out on those evacuation flights. its a combination of military and civilian charter aircraft. were expecting to get an update on that evacuation mission here at the pentagon today...

Going to be fraught with stress and tension, and potentially danger. >> well, lets talk a little more about that evacuation process then. i know that youve said that the evacuation process has been egregiously mishandled at this point. you said that want to use your platform on the house foreign affairs committee to get to the bottom of what went wrong with this process. what questions do you have for the biden administration? and are you getting some of the answers you want? >> well, i havent s...

Calls to families and others? i know there was talks of making sure everybody was notified. >> yeah. this is a pretty delicate situation. he hasnt called anyone yet. i think a lot has to do with the next of kin evacuation process thats going on and also what jen psaki said earlier today. when these people get this news from people as rylees father did today, it is the worst day of their life, finding out this news. and, so, jen psaki is saying theyre not always ready for a call from the presiden...

Afghanistan, the u.s. is on the verge of withdrawing all of its forces from their country, bridging an end to this nations longest war. for weeks the brave men and women of the u.s. military have been heroically evacuating their fellow americans and afghan allies by the tens of thousands. there were so many hopes that our troops would make it home without any more casualties. and then thursday happened. in an act of pure cowardice and evil, the terrorist group isis-k set off an explosion that ki...

Citizens who were already at the airport should leave immediately. us officials have been saying that this is, potentially, the most dangerous part of the ongoing evacuation process and, of course, that is unsurprising given the events on thursday. weve also heard that italy is also winding up its operations today in terms of those evacuation flights and last night france is well conducted its last air left in one of the reasons why theyve said they stopped yesterday was because of the deteriora...

Neil: all right. you have to the the terror threat and that is affecting how many can leave the country right now. pentagon briefing coming very shortly, this on word that we are now down to fewer than 4,000 u.s. troops at the kabul airport as we speak and so thats from close to 6,000 at our height as this evacuation process began. it seems to be trimming the size of the personnel there by about 500 a day, if my math and timing on this is right. we are also learning a little bit more about that ...

Devastating suicide bombing that took place in kabul. now, today u.s. troops remain vigilant as time runs out to complete one of the biggest air evacuations in history before tuesdays deadline. so far, more than 105,000 people have been flown out of afghanistan since august 14th. that is no small feat. so joining me now is courtney kube, nbc news pentagon correspondent. she is standing by awaiting that live briefing. i dont want to keep you long because i know when that briefing happens, youre g...