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The personnel, the millions of meals and liters of water that's been deployed to the southeast u.s. and into the gulf coast. let's bring in katelyn collins. we heard there's a small number of americans in afghanistan who still want to get out. of course, we'll see if that will reconcile their ability to get them out with the president's promise that all americans who want to get out will be extricate frdd from tha country. >> reporter: that promise is conditioned on the deadline, which is august 31 social security, which we're about 30 minutes away from in kabul now. there's a lot of questions...

In modern military history for the united states of america. what was our mission? what was your mission? was it to get our troops out? we had to send more troops in. was our mission to get our american citizens out? they are stuck behind enemy lines right now. what was our mission? and how is this mission carried out. can anyone think of a single commander in chief or general who would pull military out before the citizens are pulled out? why was it done. then we're told there will be time for recriminations to review this, we need to act immediately. really? i have a piece from politico, the...

Is our insurance policy america wouldn't be attacked again. he just gave the argument for why we should stay. that's stunning. >> bill: a few things here. general milley said a few weeks ago the target was to get down to 600 to 700 troops in country prior to tomorrow august 31. i don't know what you can do in afghanistan with 600 or 700 forces. it is the embassy or bagram or local airport. can't be all three. were those the guidelines that people on the ground were given? >> yeah, well, there is a lot of blame game going on here as you correctly identified. it is sad to see and all driven by t...

Get at least promises behind the scenes of taliban of some sort of dangling a cooperation with regard to repatriation of americans, this is an unholy brotherhood that needs to be looked -- brood that needs to be look into. >> until we get to august 31 deadline. >> you may see another rocket attack. i would be surprised if there is not. depends on how much intelligence taliban is passing to us. real problem begins september 1. that is when afghanistan is fully under taliban control. hundreds of americans behind enemy lines, we have little to no leverage, and chinese and russians are growing

The issues that we're facing right now in afghanistan as the clock ticks. lara logan is here as well. two veterans working hard to do everything that they can to get people out as the clock ticks down. their heroic stories and the help that they're getting from the u.s. military. all that is coming up. let's begin with the latest from jennifer griffin. you were in the briefing today. what are we learning at this point as we get closer to the exit time? >> right now it's 11:30 p.m. in kabul. 30 minutes from august 31st, which of course is the deadline that president biden has set and the taliba...