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Details. >> reporter: in the span of ten days, the u.s. and its allies have moved nearly the equivalent of a packed giant stadium out of afghanistan. flights leaving kabul international airport every 39 minutes. but there are possibly as many as 1500 americans who remain in the country. the biden administration still working to keep its solemn promise to evacuate every american who wants out. but also saying it is difficult to track in real time every u.s. citizen in afghanistan. but how the u.s...

Continuing what officials said starting yesterday that they would try to maintain some ability to get people out of the country even after u.s. forces depart. they believe they have leverage to get that done. there are questions as to if thats possible. but the president making clear evacuations will continue. the mission will continue, wolf. >> and theyre also bracing and were standing by for the jen psaki white house briefing thats supposed to begin any minute now. you are looking at live pict...

Security forces. i dont think there are any illusions nor should there be any illusions that the taliban is a partner. i think right now what you have is a circumstance where the taliban -- look, they have been an insurgency and ideological movement. they dont know how to govern afghanistan. they dont even know how to provide security in the situation of kabul. this is not a city they have been governing for a very long time. they have a lot to work out. theyre in discussions right now with form...

Requires the cooperation of the taliban? >> yeah. this is where american leverage is going to be crucial. we only have a few lines of leverage left, frankly, that we can use with the taliban if were not willing to use physical violence to expand perimeters and youve gone into why that would be difficult and cost so many more american lives to do that. we have leverage with the taliban because they do want some international -- they want international aid coming in. about 80% of the budget was fo...

Term. >> well, i would say first that we will continue to work to get people out of afghanistan even after the 31st, and we will need to coordinate with the taliban in order to do that. im not going to label that a partnership or anything other than continued coordination. and we, again, believe we have a great deal of leverage in order to implement that commitment. >> sorry. one other issue. beyond the evacuations, lets say there is going to be the security, the terrorism, from their point of v...

There who are going to leave and if they leave a day late and there is a car bomb and 20 of them die, a lot of us remember what happened in beirut 35 years ago, it is on you. what is your risk/reward? there is no good risk/reward but if i were him id say the risk of staying and dead american civilians and military by isis or taliban is greater. the risk of staying is lesser than the risk of leaving. >> what is the leverage to have any kind of deal in september? what phil is talking about is some...

Will look like once were out? >> i think theyre trying to take it day by day. theres some real coordination between the u.s. and taliban. the cia director met with the taliban leader earlier this week in a discussion that was not known about until after the fact, but a sign the two sides are working together at least in this current moment to try to finish this evacuation mission. the taliban has sent public signals that after august 31st any american presence in afghanistan would be seen as an ...

>> viewers know her style. it is a somber day. what stood out to you in the message that she continued in the presidents formal address on this horrific bombings. >> his relationship with the taliban, the moment in the short term up until the deadline of 31st of august and what happens to the relationship afterward sns. >> i think in a way thats the most interesting kind of analysis in terms of how do they use the taliban without trusting them to try to get people out now and then what kind of l...

Because the reality on the ground is that the united states no longer controls the airfield. they will leave next tuesday kabuls main airport and then there will be no air or land bridge for the united states or its allies to enter afghanistan to even offer any help that the united states might want to provide. >> kennedy: trey, its kennedy, i know you have been with the qatari air force, what are their plans going back into the country and we heard the administration say they had contingency pl...

Runway with the last c-130s coming in the dark to take them out, and hopefully the taliban will not turn on us. i doubt they will. we are winding down the operation, and there is no leverage left. we are easy for anybody who wants to take a shot at us. we need to stay on track, and stop the evacuation, because it is complicating the matters which is putting them at risk as well as the troops on the ground. >> and now i want to bring you into the reaction, and to what we have seen transpire today...