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Are able to get some americans and some afghans out. as of late yesterday they had only taken out about 700. now that number has doubled and 1400 to 1500 people and nearly 200 of those americans and many of them are afghans and country nationals and most of them are eligible for the visa process. so the good news coming out of kabul right now is this evacuation mission is now gaining some momentum. it is starting to move forward again with this goal of eventually moving -- or working their way u...

600 afghans packing a cargo plane. the taliban now said to be surrounding the airport. retired general david petraeus blaming political decisions saying we have a moral obligation to support those who helped us. >> we need to delegate, to key people on the ground, military, state department, department of homeland security wife is -- which is the in visa process. wrenching decisions about who goes and gets on an aircraft and who has to stay. >> bill: he was excellent last hour. karl rove has ana...

Ill acknowledge it and fix it. >> harris: but he didnt. republican critics now. >> that speech demonstrated a president who is dangerously disconnected from reality. >> it doesnt just go to show that, it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. >> why didnt he stop it? he blamed everybody but the taliban. what is even worse, harris, it isnt about leaving but american legacy and bidens lack of leadership. this will last for decades. >> har...

>> i think absolutely president biden bears responsibility but there is no question that president trump, his administration, secretary pompeo, they also bear very significant responsibility for this. president trump said the taliban would fight terror. secretary pompeo said the taliban would reannounce al qaeda. none of that has happened. >> they were destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process has stopped. and now, president biden in july, this wont be a saigon. guess what, wh...

To prevent looting since their predecessors fleed. smoke rising from the u.s. embassy grounds as officials scramble to burn sensitive documents no they are destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process is stopped. and now -- you know, president biden said in july, this is not going to be a saigon. it is not like south vietnam. but guess what? when i talked to ambassador crocker, we think it is going to be worse. >> president biden has increased the deployment of u.s. troops to kab...

Mad scramble there at that center. people were even coming up to him and begging for help, begging to get out of the country. at this point, if you are an afghan resident and you dont have a special bracelet or some kind of special immigrant visa, are you able to get out at this point? >> no, it is a dire situation. its a situation thats been dire for the past couple weeks and its really gotten into this critical mass period right now. the best case scenario for some of these individuals is to t...

Assessment ive ever heard on afghanistan. and yet the state department, secretary blinken, the politicos in the white house want to paint this rosie picture that somehow these peace talks in doha were going to deliver a rabbit out of the hat at the 11th hour. guess what? that didnt happen. now theyre sending 5,000 troops in to try to save our embassy personnel. they are destroying classified documents as i speak. the visa process has stopped. now, you know, president biden said in july this is n...

President biden really believed it, why did he tell everyone that that this was never going to happen? the very thing you are watching today he said was never going to happen. so either they were delusional, or they were not listening to their intelligence people, or they wanted us to believe something else. now, they try to assuage the concerns by saying, well, polls show that americans wanted out of afghanistan. thats right, they did. but did they ask the second question, did they want to see ...

For months weve been warning -- ambassador crocker and i wrote an op-ed in the "new york times" about what we need to do now to save the interpreters, what we need to do to have our isr intelligence, surveillance, recognizance capabilities in the region. now we are going dark. they totally blew this one and completely underestimated the strength of the taliban. you know, jake, they didnt listen to the intelligence community, because every time i got an i.c. briefing assessment it was probably th...

Street just next to us. theyre led by a white flag, and theyre chanting as they go down. i dont think from our position, we cant show you that. were about two or three stories, four stories up. but there they are, right here. hopefully they keep going past this hotel. >> a spokesman for the taliban told nbc news they ordered fighters to enter kabul to prevent looting since police appear to have abandoned their positions. theres been steady helicopter traffic all day over the u.s. embassy with ev...