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Jillian: you are watching "fox and friends first". jillian: we begin with the chaos at kabul airport where the us is expected to ramp up evacuations with 6000 people including americans scheduled to depart today. >> the president is committed to ensuring every american who what's to leave afghanistan gets out of afghanistan. he believes we can college that by august 30 first. >> defense officials don't know how many people they need to evacuate. >> how many american citizens remain in afghanistan? >> the state department would be a better place to go for an estimate. >> that answer not flying ...

And black flags, a symbol of the previous government and noticeable of defiance as the taliban the country. the united states and its allies ratcheting up the speed of the evacuations, chaos continuing to reign as the talent and use gunfire to control the crowd, terrifying aspects, they fear reprisals for their work if they don't get out. a german tv channel reported the taliban has killed the family member of one of their afghan reporters. tens of thousands of americans are waiting to be evacuated. the was cleared 6000 people for departure thursday nearly triple the number that were able to f...

>> one problem the united states admits it really doesn't know how many americans are on the ground waiting to get out. >> how many americans in afghanistan? >> don't know. the state department is a place to go for that estimate. >> the answer not flying with lawmakers. >> our government can't say how many american citizens we have, what. president biden from flying on august 30 first with thousands of american citizens left behind? >> videos out of kabul are heartbreaking like this one of the baby being passed over a razor wire fence, in hopes american troops will bring it to safety. there ar...

Of the national crop has been lost to drought, 70% of the national budget in the past when the previous government was in charge was provided by donor countries, countries unlikely to provide that cash to the taliban's government. todd: president biden and vp harris will meet with the national security team to discuss the ongoing disaster in afghanistan. jillian: the president will give a live address after the briefing, griff jenkins joins us with more. >> reporter: we will see what the president has to say as is august 30 first deadline is looming with us officials racing to evacuate thousan...

>> does that mean troops will stay behind august 31st if necessary? >> it depends on where we are and whether we can grant these numbers up to 5 to 7000 a day coming out. if that's the case, they will all be. out >> so americans should understand the troops may have to be there beyond august 31st? >> americans have to understand that we're gonna try to get it done before august 30. first >> but if we don't, the troops -- >> we will determine at the time who is left. >> and? >> and if our american force -- if american citizens left were gonna stay and get them all out. >> situation on the groun...