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Under way to get these people out of that country and to have several hours delay was extremely frustrating to them. right now theyre hoping to build up their capability so that in another day or two they should have the ability to get 5,000 people out every day on these military flights. they should begin, they should resume, again, very soon and the addition of these more and more military to the airport for additional security should also help the situation there. >> really quickly is it clea...

Were seeing play out on our screens. its been terrible from start t finish. >> president bush was interviewed recently and he sai that he was very worried about what was happening with the tallow band in also about the idea of an exit from our perspective with a really relatively small footprint that we had of troops on the ground here. here is a bit of what he said. let me read this out for you. im sad, laura and i spent a lo of time with afghan women in they are scared. i think about all the i...

Perilous position militarily, and if the taliban elect to obstruct the evacuation and claim the airspace, the only option well have is to escalate militarily in a massive way. thats what we do rather than leave people on the ground in afghanistan. its a tricky situation and we should have seen this coming. this is crazy and the interpreters and the women and children, those decisions are done. theyre not coming out. >> i just want to add that ive been given permission to publicize this from the ...

We see a situation today in kabul where, at best, maybe 1,000, maybe 2,000 of those who were interpreters or supporters or involved with the americans are getting out. so, that is a big difference and a very, very sad similarity, if you will, between kabul and saigon. >> you also covered, back in 1989, the russian or back then the soviet pullout from afghanistan, specifically. was that withdrawal more successful, and in the days that followed, what do you see going down in afghanistan now? >> we...

In other countries, but im comfortable being the one who takes the heat because i believe its in our better interests to stop this here. >> ben rhodes, are his two aims achievable? one, the counterterrorism aim. and i think with the anniversary of 9/11 right ahead we will now see an afghanistan completely ruled by the taliban. its a horrible historical echo. and two, is it possible to get out? as youre saying, its not just the interpreters, its ngos. its the men who went on and served in governm...

Facility at the hamid karzai international airport. the u.s. is putting 1,000 more troops to aid in the evacuations of u.s. personnel. now, im the last person to criticize joe bidens decision to go through with this withdrawal from afghanistan. i support it. but it is botched execution and wishful thinking and its failure to anticipate the speed of the talibans advance against demoralized afghan soldiers working for a weak government. the biden administration failed to prepare for the humanitari...

Plan for a rush to the exits, which, you know, in every situation like that that i can remember always happens. and you have to plan for that. you also have to get out the people that have helped you. you have to protect them. and in this case were talking about the special immigrant visa applicants, particularly the interpreters. they needed to be a part of the planning process. and it seems as if they were not part of the planning process. or if they were, they were only an ancillary part and ...

British passport holders, also those people who are entitled under various schemes to come into the uk. that will include some of the interpreters and some of those very controversial schemes. many campaign saying those schemes to bring the interpreters through to britain are not necessarily working effectively. also we hear today from british government, from the mod in fact, that afghan special forces who were trained by uk special forces and also american special forces will also american spe...

In -- that hasnt stopped chaotic scenes like this. cnn cannot independently verify it, but video shows crowds storming the tarmac earlier scrambling to board any plane that will get them out of afghanistan. and cnns ana coren has reported extensively from afghanistan including on a recent trip there. she joins me now from hong kong with the latest on the taliban takeover. good to see you, ana. so what is happening at the airport right now in the midst of this chaotic evacuation process and of co...

That they can get out of this country is by, you know, storming the airport, which is what they have done and trying to board a plane, trying to clamor up the ladder. its just remarkable to see these scenes. obviously these people are not going anywhere. they dont have the visas. they dont have the paperwork. im in touch, rosemary, with a u.s. human rights lawyer whos representing not just afghan interpreters but also afghan journalists who worked for u.s. media companies. and shes talking to st...