31st? it s friday. that s truce. tuesday. there is still no international agreement to keep the airport open. there is a chance it could be closed for a time period around that deadline. we ll have to wait and see what the officials here have to say about that later today. dana: griff jenkins at the state department. thank you. bill: thousands of afghan allies now desperately trying to get out of that country as the situation on the ground worsens. president biden admitting not all of them will be able to leave. he said this late thursday. president biden: we ll continue to try to get you out. it matters. look, i know of no conflict, as a student of history, no conflict where, when a war is ending, one side was able to guarantee that everyone they wanted to be extracted from that country would get out. think about it, folks.
helping. i do appreciate everything you are doing now. bill: i want our viewers to know, carl and jen, these are the kind of conversations that are happening by the thousands all over this country and all over afghanistan and all around the region. jen, thank you for coming back. carl, we are pulling for you, all right? dana: i trust in jen, carl. bill: can i say one last thing? the other night we got a bad report and i had an absolute breakdown and my nobody could calm me down and my 12-year-old nephew came to walk beside me pacing and he just looked at they meh with that 12-year-old look in his eyes and he just said but jen, did you leave it all on the field? did you do everything you could? because if so, then if they die
5,000 prisoners from an afghan jail? why was that necessary? bill, it was part of the set of understandings. we didn t want those 5,000 people released but it was part of the commitments that were made. the taliban honored some of their commitments as a direct result of that. in the end it was a decision. the afghans released those prisoners and in their control. in the end president gani believed he could do so that was safe. a decision was made as a complex year s long set of understanding that tried to bring about what oh soldier fought for for 20 years. bill: 1,000 americans still in afghanistan. state department claiming dozens of them want to stay there. talked to bret baier about that when we continue after this next.
date, too. if it s possible. we share a common purpose. the president indicated his military has a good idea of who is responsible and will hunt them down. we ve been clear all along we retain to right to operate against isis in afghanistan and working very hard right now to determine attribution and who is associated with this cowardly attack and prepared to take action against them. 24/7 we re looking for them. the problem is they are now hiding in the capital kabul hiding among civilians. 12,500 people were evacuated yesterday from kabul despite the bombing, 35 military flights. some of them were medevacs. bill: thank you, back to you live when there is more news at the pentagon. dana: let s go to the white house. president biden defended his actions as the worst case scenario unfolds. watch the heated exchange with our own peter doocy. do you bear any responsibility for the way that
it was the tunnel to towers foundation. i have grown very close to them and the families that we work with through them. but honestly the best person i worked with was a close friend of mine who is an amazing person and who followed through with every single request and every question and every tear that i dealt with through that whole time. bill: who was that again, shannon? so every gold star family gets a combat action officer. the person that works with you through the entire process and in most cases afterwards they move on. in my case it was a close friend of mine even though he is stationed in japan. bill: what did he do for you? he answered all the questions. when you sit there and you read