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. welcome back to "way too early." it's 5:30 on the east coast, 2:30 out west. good morning. i'm jacob soboroff. the final u.s. military plane carrying americans from afghanistan left kabul last night, bringing an end to a hasty evacuation and those efforts that ultimately left behind tens of thousands of afghans desperate to leave the country. nbc news chief correspondent richard engel has the latest. >> reporter: united states ended its 20-year war in afghanistan with the conclusion of the largest non-combat amount airlift in american history. >> i'm here to announce the completion of our ...

Veterans and other people who worked in afghanistan over the years just the despair over the last few weeks over how we're exiting and treating those who worked with us bravely for so many years. and it's going to be a huge, ongoing moral stain if the biden administration can't make good on their promise to help extract our afghan allies who stood alongside us. just the psychological impact that it's having on so many men and women who served over the last 20 years in that theatre and then to know that the afghans who worked so closely with them, that are just being a second thought and cast a...

I think there's significant damage that's going to -- you know, that's done to the airport. think about the runways. you have to think about radars, all of the other things that go into a modern airport. and it's probably the size of a mid size city airport so there's a lot to be done and unclear how it's all going to be resolved. >> yamiche, president biden said in an interview a couple weeks ago with george stephanopoulos. if there are any americans left we are going to stay until they get out. obviously that did not happen there are still americans in afghanistan and the united states milit...

Afghanistan is over. the last american troop boarded an aircraft shortly before midnight in kabul last night, marking the end of a chaotic and deadly exit from the country. in total the state department says more than 122,000 people were evacuated since late july. including more than 6,000 americans. but officials estimate between one and 200 u.s. citizens have been left behind. >> look, there's a lot of heartbreak associated with this departure. we did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out. i think if we stayed another ten days we wouldn't have gotten everybody out that wanted to ge...

Accomplishments that are going to endure. >> we have only scratched the surface of this book. this comprehensive account of afghanistan and the 20 years of war there. i know we'll have you back on to dig in more. the new book is "the afghanistan papers," craig whitlock. thank you so much. more on how the afghans and the united states citizens who want to remain in afghanistan will get out. julia ainsley joins us and also christian roache, she's a veteran, part of a broad nerk of veterans, government officials and afghan americans working to save friends, family and allies from taliban threat...