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Trying to help this process along. and i asked do you believe by august 31st itll be possible to get everybody out who the president says should come out. the congressman responded logistically impossible. >> yeah, i think one of the things going on here, phil, is biden has made it a priority, clearly, for the u.s. government, for the pentagon, to do everything they can to make sure not one more service member dies in afghanistan. and that has really been a major component of why the u.s. troops...

Are going to be part of that negotiation but they will not get any real progress if the united states is not very much involved which at this moment if the reports are correct they are not prepared to be for reasons i find a mystery and a very disturbing one.— be for reasons i find a mystery and a very disturbing one. thank you for “oininu us. a very disturbing one. thank you for joining us- we _ a very disturbing one. thank you for joining us. we will _ a very disturbing one. thank you for ...

Still have a long way to go before anything becomes law. >> so, ryan, whats next in the process? >> so the next stage in this process is that the house will begin marking up this $3.5 trillion budget panel. and they said that they would do that as early as the first week of september. now keep in mind, the house of representatives is leaving. theyre not planning on coming back here until september 20th. that leaves only seven days after they return to get that budget reconciliation package movin...

Isis. obviously if there were any sort of attack, that could have an impact on operations there as well. we also have to look at what exactly this august 31st deadline means. there are nearly 6,000 troops on the ground at kabul airport right now. you cant just flip a switch and get them all on flights out. it can take anywhere in the neighborhood of three to four days to get them all out. if youre talking august 31st, were talking the end of this week now when the u.s. military will have to star...

On this as well. at the moment, the polls do suggest the american public is behind joe biden. in this country, foreign policy is not that big an issue for voters, when it comes to elections they care more about the domestic issues. but what they do care about is their president having a plan. joe biden is somebody who his supporters will tell you, he won the white house because he was compassionate and competent, something they say his predecessor was. now his critics are saying there is a short...

As theyre concerned -- their final day for the u.s. to be there. and the u.s. military has drastically ramped up the number of evacuations of americans and others. as cnns oren liebermann reports for us now, the evacuation process was further complicated today with the taliban saying that they will no longer let any afghans enter the airport to leave the country. >> reporter: the tide of afghan evacuees flowing out of kabul is at a new peak. as the effort to move as many people as possible enter...

Underestimate the powerful message he has given to the public, which is effectively, the war is over and our boys and girls are coming home. that matters to americans. what they are concerned about is the manner in which it is happening. if the evacuation process goes to plan and people are given safe passage, i think the american people will move on quite quickly. foreign policy doesnt affect them unless they are directly affected. the problem forjoe biden is if there will be any fatalities, if...

Imposing vaccine mandates at this point? >> no. i think that you have 80 plus million people who told you they didnt want to get vaccinated even though they know 650,000 people have died, even though they know that the vaccine is safe and effective. they just dont want it. theyre telling you this is a civil liberty or personal choice. and i think the only way that youre going to get that group vaccinated is to compel them to be vaccinated by mandates. >> what about kids under the age of 12? when...

People at the gates of the airpo airport. that is of deep concern. there is concern they want to try to reopen the gates to get the evacuation process going for the 10,000 inside this airport will be the last ones being evacuated and there are many, many thousands of others including american citizens according to the state department who are expecting to be evacuated. i can hear gunfire over to my left. kate? >> sam, thank you so much for your continued fantastic reporting there. really appreci...

This over concerns that the evacuations simply wont be done by then. the taliban pushed back this morning, saying they want all u.s. forces out of the country by the end of the month as promised. cnns john harwood joins me now. john, does the white house care about that? do they listen to the taliban? >> reporter: oh, i dont think the talibans statement is going to be determinetive of what president biden does as he has indicated. look, there have been several adjustments made to the evacuation ...