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>> bret: president biden facing increasing criticism for what some say is clearly a broken promise about getting americans and thousands of afghans who helped america out of afghanistan. white house correspondent peter doocy looks at the controversy tonight. >> afghanistan policy has not played out as advertised. >> if there is american citizens left we are going to stay until we get them all out. >> turns out all out means 9 out of 10. >> 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave. >> so even though the administration initially claimed. >> it's irresponsible to say...

More than 100 americans remain on the ground mostly dual citizens representing the most complex and difficult circum circumstances u.s. officials told cnn and u.s. relying on diplomatic means and taliban to bring them home. >> for those remaining americans, there's no deadline. we are committed to get them out if they want to come out. >> reporter: biden facing another clear reality. many of the afghan allies he pledged to evacuate did not get out of the country. a senior state department official saying the majority that worked for the u.s. in the two decade war remain in afghanistan. >> are ...

>> now, jake, in the final days of the reign of the previous afghan government in kabul and the arrival of the taliban, large numbers, an unknown number of isis prisoners held by the government and held by the americans at bagram prison were released in the general chaos. they weren't deliberately released. they simply escaped when the cell doors were opened. and there is great concern that those, of course, will have swelled the ranks of the so-called islamic state and the khorasan at a time when actually the taliban had been very effectively trying to crush them. jake. >> cnn's sam kiley liv...

Up next, president biden facing growing backlash from fellow democrats over the withdrawal from afghanistan and how it was handled.

Vaccinated. president biden facing hurdles when it comes to key pieces of his agenda. jeff, what is at stake for the president tonight? >> reporter: that all certainly sets the table for the challenges facing the biden administration. we talked about that house committee investigating the insurrection on january 6th. perhaps all of this could have been foreseen. kevin mccarthy certainly appointed these members for reasons. speaker pelosi responded in kind. this was all fairly predictable. the reason it matters for the biden agenda is this, he really has a limited time period to get these agend...