Weeks 6000 Out News Today

That this collapse of the afghan government security forces was faster than he expected. general milley told us today "i had no intelligence saying it could happen in 11 days." our own colleague clarissa ward said this evening that nobody expected this could happen in 11 days. so as a result, the scenes that were seeing are shocking and disorienting and youre seeing justifiable fear and panic among people who have good reason to be concerned for their lives. however we have not seen evidence of ...

Ramp up those evacuations over the next couple of weeks. 6,000 out so far according to the white house, something on the order of 60,000 to go. its a very difficult challenge especially when youre dependent on cooperation from the taliban who are untrustworthy. the white house says they have some leverage, financial and otherwise, over the taliban so theyll try to sustain that. but the question is whether or not they can. and that test is still in front of us. as you indicated, president biden s...