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Troops there and for u.s. agencies, media organizations. we have seen efforts by president biden to order an escalation, essentially, in the pace of those evacuation efforts. but i think the wide consensus is that those efforts are still not enough. there is still too slow, even with him being speeded up this week. do you share that view? >> i share the concern that we need to have a sense of urgency around evacuating the tens of thousands of allies who served alongside us as truck drivers, inte...

Veteran than as a member of congress. theres so much of my heart tied up in that country having served shoulder with shoulder with afghans who continue to fight to this day. its extremely heartbreaking. i dont think anybody was expecting the level of attack, speed of attack were seeing now. what were looking at right now at this point that we pulled out our combat forces, ended our combat mission number one protecting u.s. personnel and u.s. citizens that are in afghanistan. we have to make sure...

On a type day with no traffic it takes ten minutes to make that journey. on a busy day when shops are open and people going back and forth its more like 20, 30, possibly longer sometimes. you can just be sitting static there. lots of questions still to be answered for the pentagon how that evacuation is going to happen and also who will be evacuated. they said they are including on that list or at least trying to increase, speed up the process for those special immigrant visa applicant, interpre...

Prayers. >> yeah, well susan glasser did that comparison, i was happy to retweet it. the boss of foreign policy now, the new yorker, covering foreign policy longer than i have. there are a lot of frustrated, i think, reporters who have covered this war just as long as the veterans that have been fighting it, seeing what basically has been the pentagon throwing up its hands and the last few days announcements of sending in a few thousand troops to help with the evacuation, and folks should be cle...

Biden administration is working to finalize the deal, it would see the translators and their families sent to dough that are while they navigate the cumbersome visa process to eventually move to the u.s. if qatar agrees up to 8,000 afghans could be sent to the country. >> cyril van yair join us with more. >> reporter: if that deal goes through it will be a lifeline for 8,000 afghans not just the interpreters who worked with u.s. forces but also their immediate family. they would be sent to qatar...

City kandahar and consolidating territory in the south, north and west. the taliban took its first provincial capital a week ago. now their territory looks like this. closing in on kabul. panicked afghans are you rush to the capital as aid agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis. >> at least 241,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes. and the humanitarian needs are growing by the hour. >> reporter: these men all worked for nato as construction workerless, cooks, interpreters. >> we ...

Consolidating territory in the south, north, and west. the taliban took its first provincial capital one week ago. now their territory looks like this, closing in on kabul. panicked afghans are rushing to the capital as aid agencies warn of a humanitarian crisis. >> at least 21,000 people have been forced to flee from their homes and humanitarian needs are growing by the hour. >> reporter: these men all worked for nato as construction workers, cooks, interpreters. >> we translated, we put them i...

>> and yet here we are, with very large swaths of the country effectively under taliban control. as you see, many others are being contested. a real policy nightmare, say critics, for the potential fallout for years to come. >> what were seeing is an ill-conceived hasty withdrawal thats turned into an embarrassing retreat. and thats the simple facts of it. >> it is all on president bidens shoulders. this rapid and happen hazard withdrawal -- hap hazard withdrawal of american troops, of course be...

Country. >> theres going to be no circumstance where youll see people being lifted off the roof of an embassy of the united states from afghanistan. it is not at all comparable. the likelihood theres going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. >> and yet, here we are with very large swaths of the country effectively under taliban control already, and that is with the threat of extending that takeover to kabul. >> it is all on president bidens s...

People on the ground. it also shows that what were dealing with is really a way in which weve got to do something more to get people out in terms of afghan interpreters. so what we have here is from a strategic standpoint a very difficult situation. we have a problem that in some ways was of our own making, but in other ways was a result of ineptitude and corruption in the afghan military. and the resulting mess that were dealing with now is one in which there are really -- no good way out, that...