people counting on america right now do the right thing by its allies and get these people out safely before it is too late. one group of american diplomats told the u.s. secretary of state weeks ago that catastrophe exactly what we're seeing now could happen in afghanistan. cnn's kylie atwood has the story. >> reporter: u.s. diplomats in cab bill wrote secretary of state antony blinken a memo in mid-july urging the state department to take more action to both process and evacuate those afghans who had worked alongside u.s. troops and u.s. diplomats particularly given what they were seeing unfolding on the ground. taliban gains happening and what they predicted to be an afghan government fall by the time they pulled out in august. they wanted to take action to mitigate against a scenario where there was a complete amount of chaos which is exactly what we are seeing unfold right