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>> translator: they are talented people. they should not leave this country. they should work in their own specialist areas. they should not go to other countries, to those western countries. >> reporter: one question the biden administration hasnt answered, how many americans are left in afghanistan. the white house promised to evacuate every u.s. citizen who wants out, but the pentagon refusing to say how many that is. >> i dont think theres a perfect number that we know with certainty of all ...

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Afghanistan certainly at the beginning in those days when we thought we could build this new nation and transform afghanistan and the reach more broadly but even in subsequent administrations when we thought there was something taking hold and had a really hard time as outsiders, having a sense of just how profound the problems were. >> i remember going out with marines on patrol and driving to some village and the marines risking their lives to get to this village, a tiny speck on a map meeting...

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>> according to letters obtained by cnn the taliban sentenced an afghans brother who served an interpreter to american troops. the letters contradict assurances the taliban spokesman has been making at press conferences saying nobody would be harmed in afghanistan, and theres a huge difference between us now and 20 years ago. do you think reprisal killings are going to become common? >> nobody knows. theyre rumors. but first of all the leadership theyve clearly said theres a general amnesty and ...

Obviously these are chaotic situations, any time a country is falling apart or a government collapses its a difficult situation. but it does seem like theres a track record to the u.s. not living up to its promises to the people that helped them. >> this president and his administration have made clear were going to have a special priority for afghans who work as allied interpreters, prominent advocates for the rights of women and girls, journalists, those who face risk of taliban reprisal. they...

Afghans? do you believe thats still a priority for this administration? >> i dont think they ever truly were a priority for this administration given the hearings weve had from the state department over the months past but also to give you a historic vote from joe biden. he said this following the withdrawal from vietnam, we have zero obligation to withdraw foreign nationals moral or otherwise 1 or 100,000. that was his direct statement about foreign nationals as it related to vietnam. and i thi...

But if some commander in some province was just padding the books and taking the money. >> thats right. and there were times you know as well as anyone we were perfectly aware of what was going on but felt so incapable of dealing with it there was this inclination again over multiple administrations to sweep that under the rug. if you go back tathose first years in afghanistan that was really the moment when we probably had the best chance to commit to a nation building mission in a more serious...