intel officers. guiding people through taliban checkpoints. american citizens. not just talking about siv holders american citizens that's what brett is working on here. i know they are packing up. i know they are heading out. do you know what was sitting outside those gates i feel like you would try find a way. brett and his crew are trying. steve: absolutely. we did reach out to the state department. they referred to us twitter statement u.s. ambassador ross wilson which said, quote: this is a high risk operation. claims that american citizens have been turned away or are denied access to harmid karzai international airport by embassy staff or u.s. forces are false. brett, is that true or false? >> >> well, as of about 3:00 eastern time this morning it was definitely false. i have family of four that were outside the gate. we were networking furiously. every channel that we knew, some