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0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and ...

There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who decide they want to leave to do so. along with the many afghans who have stood by us over these many years. >> reporter: 4,500 americans have already been airlifted out. some 500 just today. president biden set august 31st as the deadline for the evacuation. a date the taliban called a red line for the u.s. getting out of afghanistan entirely. the president says well meet the deadline, but for any left behind -- >> that...

People so he can convey exactly what he knew at the appointed time time where he addresses the public. he has wanted very detailed updates of exactly what we know about whats happening on the ground and thats why hes been in constant contact with members of the national security team. >> reporter: and can you you and from the report that its 13 service members who have died? >> secretary psaki: i would leave that to the national security team. >> reporter: talking about the active threats, how w...

The question becomes what happens now? john? >> john: jennifer at the pentagon. you brought us the tragic news about the four fatalities. what is next? >> reporter: unfortunately, we can report at this time, at least ten u.s. servicemembers, marines and soldiers have been killed in the attack this morning outside of the abbey gate. what we know at this time is there were two explosions. there was a suicide bombing that struck outside the abbey gate where the u.s. military was guarding the abbey ...

Remain in country after august 31st. you also heard secretary blinken say they will spare no resource, economic, diplomatic, working with allies, the u.s. working with its allies to try to grant safe passage to any afghan, any american who remains in country after august 31st. this explosion, presumed attack outside the kabul airport, you can certainly imagine how that complicates this effort and the immediate political calculus that president biden has to make here. >> geoff bennett, thank you....

A possibility of an isis k attack. it is very high risk. >> blinken says they are scrambling to get roughly 1500 americans stuck in afghanistan who want to get out, though the secretary believes the number is lower emphasizing the actual number nruk waits but suggests they dont have an exact handle on how many could possibly be left behind with just days to go in the contingency plan to get anyone out past august 31st is wholely dependent on the taliban. as for a diplomatic presence after august...

That ten u.s. servicemembers were killed in that attack outside of the kabul airport. >> john: this is a devastating day and we hope that number doesnt continue to rise. but as jennifer mentions, it is likely to as the threat from attacks is built up. sometimes these attacks come in waves. and sometimes the first attack is a signal to another attack. i have been to that airport and in a normal time is a sea of humanity and at this time, thousands and thousands of people outside those blast walls...

Handled this. the british defense secretary is a former soldier. he actually got emotional during an interview last week, saying that it was pretty much inevitable that afghan allies of the uk were going to get left behind in kabul because of this timeline set by president biden. there has not been the same level, i would say, of political interest here in britain that there has been in the u.s. about the war in afghanistan. theres not much discussion about forever wars in this country in the wa...

Just to put some sort of perspective here. and the last time that u.s. servicemembers were killed in afghanistan was february of 2020. i wanted to bring you that updated death toll. >> john: jennifer, thank you for that devastating news. >> sandra: john, so many of these marines had already been deployed there and fought there and had gone home and sent back. and martha, just absolutely horrible news continues to come in. 11 marines now confirmed dead in that attack. one navy medic. >> yeah, its...

Others fleeing afghanistan were sitting for hours and hours outside the gate, not permitted to travel those last few yards into the airport. the culmination of what the president and his top aides had been warning about all week. >> every day were on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. and allied forces and innocent civilians. >> were operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the taliban with the ver...