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Stepped up the number of people evacuating from kabul, 12,700 on u.s. military flights alone in the last 24 hours, experts say it is doubtful that the u.s. could complete particularly the withdrawal of those afghans who have helped the united states in just a week in addition to withdrawing those nearly 6,000 u.s. troops who will need to get on planes by august 31st. again, that is just seven days from today. and it is notable because the president last week, not only committed to bringing every american who is in afghanistan home who wants to come home, he said that commitment extends to thos...

In kabul and right now they've been on a good flow in the last 48 hours. in the last 24 hours they got 12,700 people out. and their goal was 5,000 to 9,000 people. if they can maintain this pace over the next several days before this deadline they can get a lot of people out of there, americans and afghan, but that's a big "if" because you have the logistical hurdles that they've been facing all along. you have simple things like weather. weather can have a big impact there, but richard was talking about the taliban working with them on the ground. that's actually one thing that's been helping...

These evacuations. the real comparison point we should be looking at from the 10,000 plus number yesterday. today that is 12,700. that 20,000 number includes all coalition flights, not only the u.s. military planes which was the number that they provided yesterday with the 10,400, but still an increase of about 2,300 people from one day to the next. clearly they are picking up the pace, and this is happening at a time when president biden is going to come under pressure from these g7 allies today about the deadline for which u.s. troops are supposed to be getting out of afghanistan. that is au...

Though the embassy now acknowledges the airport gates may open and close without warning and advises use your best judgment in getting to the airport. then there are the tens of thousands of afghans who worked with the united states over the past two decades. we spoke to a former interpreter who says he is trying to get his family to kabul and then through to the airport. we obscured his face to protect his identity. >> now we are in afghanistan. i'm hiding in my friend's house. two or three times the taliban came and asked at my door. this is very upsetting for me. i wish i didn't work with t...

>> harris: wow, if the usa can't do it, nobody can do it. the pentagon says more than 5,000 people have been evacuated from kabul airport over the last day. the grand total, 12,700 people since last saturday. and we've been told by the pentagon they are working and so is the state department to get actual numbers of how many americans are still in afghanistan outside that airport. senator lindsey graham says there will be a big price to pay if the evacuations are cut short. >> we're duty bound to get every american citizen out. we're honor bound to get those afghans who fought along our side o...