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To be screening people, and so, there are a lot of very active dynamics going on here, sean, and the president warns that the next couple days could be very tough as well. >> sean: so peter, my take on this today, he is sticking to this deadline and acknowledging that americans will be left behind. is that you are take? >> its possible americans will be left behind, and so will many of these afghan interpreters or other afghan helpers who were under the impression that because they were eligible...

>> jesse: not only coordinating with the taliban but the russians and chinese to get our people home. tyler, what have you heard from the people who you are rescue ing? what are the conditions on the ground at the airport? >> i still have a lot of friends over there in harms way. a lot from my previous unite. we have been there for 2 decades. i had the ability to work with them to close down iraq in 2011 and to watch this situation continue to deteriorate and talk to our friends to see if they a...

Soldiers in many, many months because of the agreement that we send, because i wanted to get out. i wish we never went in. the biggest mistake we made in the history of our country was going into the middle east, i call it quicksand, and we went into the middle east, and we shouldnt have been there, we blew it to pieces, and now we are leaving, and because of what they are doing, we are leaving in disgrace. we could have left with great dignity. we could have left with safety. we could have take...

August 31st. you know, i will tell you i have been working for years. over 11 years, i have been writing lefters to help interpreters and families. and woke up to two interpreters, their wives and children, leaving on a plane to qatar, and i nearly shed tears of joy. i still have an interpreter who was leaving today. but because of the blast, its unsure if he will get out of there. i have an interpreter who made it to arizona, and he has been denied the ability to have his wife and child. how do...

Arsenal. -- gave a list to the taliban with our interpreters and americans stranded in the country. so this is not just about afghanistan and leaving afghanistan this. is a broader problem of no deterrence and our enemies understanding joe biden is incredibly weak. based on how he handled this will he stand up to other countries with ballistic missiles and other weapons. >> he has a thing for lists. list of the taliban. >> dont attack these things. >> list of reporters. everyone gives him a list...

Seen stories in the papers for months about interpreters desperate to get out of afghanistan in britain actually being quite so to help them. j actually being quite so to help them. ., �* ~j , , ., them. i dont think they were slow to hel. them. i dont think they were slow to help- one _ them. i dont think they were slow to help. one has _ them. i dont think they were slow to help. one has to _ them. i dont think they were slow to help. one has to be _ them. i dont think they were slow to help...

Frankly, until today, when we had a tragedy take place, and that is because -- unfortunately, biden did not follow it because he took the military out first and left everybody open, and i feel very, very badly for the people. i think they are in great danger, for the americans, and i feel very badly for a lot of people that were very loyal to our country, whether it is interpreters or others, and they were very loyal to our country, but we certainly arent a bad position. there are always alterna...

I know that the emotions sometimes dont breakthrough our military leaders, what are you seeing? >> there is a lot of tired eyes here and it has been a difficult couple weeks here. moral has been low about the overall reality that the military people, the interpreters that have been supporting them for two decades are not going to get out safely. they have considered them brothers here in the pilding at senior levels. there is a lot of frustration in this building in the last few weeks and yester...

A terrible situation for them so you know, groups the entire afghan effect effort and a group americans working feverishly and will continue to work with the u.s. government there or not but a very difficult nation once the u.s. leaves. >> trace: and a catch is, we are telling american citizens, dont come to the airport. we have four days to get them out and tell them dont come, dont come because its dangerous. pick up the best people can do is american folks who have friends and allies there an...

>> i jumped out a lot of them. very close relationships with interpreters we work through and right now we are -- we have joint operations command center in washington dc and one in the middle east, thousands of emails of people trying to get out. we have a team in washington dc segregating them out to triage them and in the middle east coordinating the ground team outside the wire on target and targeting people who want to rescue, moving in, two different methodologies and flying them out with ...