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Get out and a race to get out as many afghan evacuees as possible. 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. as many as 1500 americans still remaining in the country. the biden administration vowing to keep the promise to evacuate every american who wants out. but how remains a question. >> they will not be forgotten. we certainly have points of ince...

To send into that kind of meeting than bill burns. hes someone whos probably the most experienced diplomat in the administration. and hes had to deal with all kinds of adversaries. so it was a good move to send bill burns in to talk to the taliban. and when the cia director shows up and talks to the taliban, he -- i think he brings p some authority to the table because the one thing the taliban does remember very well is the role of the cia in going after the taliban. so i think bill had some le...

Taliban, the international expectation that people will continue to be able to leave the country after the military evacuation effort ends, and we certainly have points of incentive and points of leverage with a future afghan government to help make sure that that happens, but i can tell you, again, from -- from my perspective and from the presidents perspective this effort does not end on august 31st. it will continue for as long as it takes to help get people out of afghanistan who wish to lea...

See the sense of that because the g7 has leverage, economic, diplomatic and political. >> in the meantime the taliban are not allowing the evacuation of anymore afghan citizens and they are blocking them from the road to the airport. a spokesman says afghans should return to their homes and wont face reprisals. >> translator: unfortunately the americans are continuing their previous policy, we call on the measures to americans to change their policy. they should not encourage people to leave the...

International airport. joining me now is an afghan diplomat who served as afghanistans first female ambassador to the united states. thank you, ambassador, for talking with us. >> thank you for having me. >> well, more than 70,000 people have been evacuated from afghanistan in ten days. but with the august #31 deadlin fast approaching, it is looking less likely now that all remaining afghan allies will be able to leave particularly given the taliban will no longer allow afghans to go to the ai...

6 to 12 months after we successfully destroyed al-qaeda and pushback the taliban, that was the only point at which we had leveraged to exact any favorable terms from the taliban insist of using that leverage, we chose to dig in, make it obvious that we were there for the long haul. but obviously, we cant be there forever, and the taliban are afghans. they live their. it is their country. they simply outlasted us, just like the shopkeeper told me they would. >> and, that was also the story of vie...

Taliban, the international expectation that people will continue to be able to lead the country after the military evacuation effort ends. we have points of incentive and points of leverage with a future afghan government to help make sure that that happens. from my perspective, from the presidents perspective, this effort does not end on august 31st. it will continue for as long as it takes to get people out. >> they made their own commitments and that he had them publicly and privately. i thin...

Taliban. and when the cia director shows up and talks to the taliban, i think he brings some authority to the table, because one thing that the taliban does remember very well is the role of the cia in going after the taliban. so i think bill had some leverage here. i hope he was able to get them to understand that it is in their interest to cooperate at this point. the last thing they want to do is get into another war in the united states. >> general hertling, i appreciate your time. thank you...

The united states could negotiate with the taliban over 20 years of war in afghanistan. but in this meeting, this was not a place where the u.s. had leverage. its after the taliban came in and took over the country with maximum leverage. thats an incredible full circle event, where you go from being locked in a pakistani prison, to then meeting with the director of the cia, as your equal, and a diplomatic meeting. >> it is remarkable, and of course that happens at this moment where time is very ...

Security reasons they dont want to talk about it in advance or if there is really no plan to go in and potentially rescue americans who are outside of kabul. >> mike memoli at the white house, i want to contextualize the remarks of president biden and the time constraints he has placed upon himself, and to go into deadly position that does not enhance core american security and then the talibans overbearing leverage in afghanistan, the president had no option but to stick to his self-imposed dea...