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Trying to get through each day before they confront fundamental questions about their future. lyse doucet, bbc news. here, the government is developing a "bespoke" scheme to allow afghan refugees to come to the uk. lets get more on that from our political correspondent nick eardley. there is already a scheme in place to bring afghan interpreters and other people who worked with british forces to the uk. that is part of the evacuation is going on in kabul at the moment. we are expecting a further...

Understand in we do feel the pain that they are feeling probably after the same extent. in making sure that we do the best we can for those afghans who helped us. we have the secretary themselve talk about the interpreters in translator in the obligation that we know that we have for them. and so in this moment on this day, doing what we can to honor that obligation to all of those who help make all of that progress possible because by helping us, they helped us help you. i truly am and i know t...

Thousands and thousands of afghans who died, and for what now? for what exactly now? i understand we had to get out of afghanistan. it would have lasted forever, but we could have done it in an orderly fashion that presumed his many of our contacts in certainly the lives, the safety of the people who helped us. we cant allow it now martha, for goodness sake, we cant allow these people to be punished for being friends with us, for having allied with us, for having saved our lives for it we cant a...

Government would still be in place here. now the taliban have taken over, it seems, i wouldnt say far fetched. everyone here hopes its viable, but at the same time i cant see it. jake? >> and, nick, weve been covering on this show for months this idea of these afghan allies, interpreters and others trying to get out of the country. people warning the biden administration this needs to happen before the taliban control the roads, before the taliban control the towns and villages. biden, president...

That we have successfully gone here to the united states. the taliban is tracking down the family back home, kidnapping them, and threatening the interpreters here in the united states. either you come back and face taliban justice, or they kill the family members. and that is something that those that have never served just dont understand. it is the psychology. everybody is kind of wringing their hands on how does this army fall so quickly? well, when the narrative is america has abandoned you...

Escaping. this, they felt, was their only option for trying to get out of the country. these were the people who were lucky enough to make it on to an aircraft to get out of the country. there are plenty more at the airport causing a very difficult situation, a chaotic situation as they, too, try to find some way to get onboard the flight. they are aware of what is critical here, and that is kabul international airport. it is the international gateway. it is where 6,000 troops are going in with ...

>> congresswoman, just hearing you say well have to negotiate with the taliban just takes on -- you recoil i think physically, anyone who lived through 9/11 as we approach the 20-year anniversary, obviously a vicarious place to be in, depending on a negotiation with the taliban, to get our allies and our friends and anyone in danger out safely. is that the best we could do right now? >> i think it is the best we can do right now. you know, we negotiate with our adversaries all the time, and whet...

>> dana: however, president biden made the decision to leave. he also then making that decision on april 14th had no plan in order to help manage the withdrawal. i would argue also that when you had 3,000 military forces there in terms of intelligence basically providing the air cover that was needed to keep this from happening, they had no plans to deal with that. plus now you are trying to get all the afghan interpreters out but no visas to help them process that. isnt that all something that ...

Another. our current president, are missing commander in chief, he campaigned in part on the strength of his foreign policy, the strength of his formulations. the global community sees us as shameful. the prime minister of the u.k., boris johnson said indeed president bidens behavior and actions and decisions have accelerated this crisis. its not just this weekend. president biden totally abandoned those interpreters and then he bungled the special visa programming. so all this was backlogs befo...

Calls, our social media posts, the various white papers. you can google my name, see how many op-eds i have written on this. i literally wrote on the 2nd of april, when collapse comes in kabul it will happen faster than d.c. can respond. given afghanistans unique position in the world, we are going to need to conduct the largest air lift since 1948. we have been streaming this for months and no one listened. >> let me bring ben rhodes back. you were in the nsc, i cant imagine you wouldnt take ma...