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Needs to ensure the safety of american personnel. in needs to continue its evacuations of allys, interpreters and, that other afghans who helped the u.s. military. and we need to use the full scope of our humanitarian diplomatic leverage, to ensure hard won gains, especially for women and girls, are maintained. >> all right. congressman jake auchincloss, thank you so much for your time and for your service. its got to be really troubling though, at the end of the day to see all of this after 20 ...

All of the afghan officials offices are closed due to this situation because nobody can get their passports updated. a lot of people are waiting to get out of the country, go to another country, but within the last two, three days the situation has been really bad. so people, a lot of translators are hiding home and they are scared to death because they are really -- they already found that other interpreters got killed in the last couple of days and they are trying to, you know, avoid that situ...

Danish lawmakers have agreed 45 Afghan citizens who worked at Denmark's Kabul embassy or as interpreters for its troops will be given residency in the European nation for two years.

Orderly and safe drawdown of u.s. personnel. >> pentagon correspondent oren liebermann is with us now. what are you hearing from the pentagon from their officials there about the decision, this decision this morning to evacuate all and any plan moving forward? >> reporter: well, certainly waiting for an updated reaction on the latest plan essentially to get out, what is now effectively a return for the exit by u.s. embassy staff. we are waiting to see what an update is on afghans interpreters an...

Colleagues and friends, afghans who have worked hard to build a modern afghanistan, worked hard as reliable allies and partners for us over the years. and i hang my head in shame. they will be time and importance to learn lessons and look back and really understand what has gone wrong. but in the short—term, i think the focus is very much our two hour, as your reporter said. at the moment, there isjust a small sense of cautious optimism that the bloodbath, the bloody fight for kabul is going t...

Afghan-military convoy 50 miles from kabul, and captured government soldiers. and tonight, theyve seized the last, big city in the north, mazar-i-sharif after the warlords who pledged to defend the city fled to uzbekistan, today. firmly in control of key cities kandahar in the south and herat in the west this taliban fighter claiming businesses are open and people are happy. but 13,000 families have now fled taliban-controlled areas, and aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis >> human...

Administration to understand the reality of what taliban might do, and the actual -- well see whether there was some chinese influence in there and i know thats odd to say but china already said theyre going to recognize the taliban. did that weaken the will of the afghan fighters? the way we left zagraf, did that weaken the will of the afghan fighters, did they say there was no communication there, a middle of the night evacuation, and did that impede or dampen the will of afghan fighters again...

His rationale for exiting from afghanistan and that the world is watching the taliban especially how they treat women and girls. >> and of course there is the decision to fully withdraw and then there is the execution of it. so really two ways to look at what is unfolding there. and you mention those afghan allies. more than 15,000 still there at last check. nat natasha bertrand, thank you so much. and those afghan civilians are in more danger than ever. operation allies refuge is the biden admi...

Now, watching how this administration abandoned allies. we will see al qaeda 3.0. we will see a repeat of what happened in iraq when we pulled out too soon under the obama administration and isis came roaring back, caliphate the size of indiana, attacks across the west. there was no plan. there was no plan to help our interpreters, there was no plan to help those in civil society and now theres no plan for bases in the region to go after al qaeda if they come back. were flying blind in afghanist...

Have now fled taliban-controlled area, and aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis. >> humanitarian needs are growing by the hour. >> reporter: these men all worked for nato as construction workers, cooks, interpreters. >> we are resident on the ground. we know the language. we translated. we issued them visa tourists. we put them in the jail. because of that, if they arrest us, they will kill us. every one, they will kill us. >> reporter: many here feel abandoned and betrayed. >> that...