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Welcome back to "morning joe." live pictures at 3:53 in the afternoon at the kabul airport in afghanistan on the eve of america's evacuation and withdrawal after nearly 20 years of war there. the united states military is working to evacuate hundreds of americans still looking to leave the country before tomorrow's deadline set by president biden. according to the latest numbers provided by the state department approximately 250 u.s. citizens are still in afghanistan. since august 14th, united states says it has evacuated more than 122,000 people, including more than 1,200 since yesterday morn...

Troops behind. >> i can't verify that number, the math you just gave me and i can't tell you the break down now between the more than 100 and -- 112,000 afghans that we were able to evacuate in less than a couple of weeks. i can't give you the break down right now. i honestly can't. and what i would tell you is that obviously we wanted to get as many people out as we could. and in the course of a very short order of time, 122,000, the largest airlift that the u.s. military has conducted, got 122,000 people to safety. now, there will be a time when this is complete that the state department can...

Forceful response to aggression even as it warns of a real and ongoing threat. the total evacuated is 122,000 with an unknown number still at risk as the taliban breaks its word on amnesty. we have our correspondents joining us. let's talk about thousands of afghans being flown. where are we currently on the evacuation as we approach the deadline? >> the state department said yesterday there were 250 americans who were trying to get out of afghanistan and have not been able to. these are folks who for whatever

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