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This is their country. >> yes. i get the argument. i get the argument for sure. i understand. ambassador omar samad, it's good to have you on. we appreciate your perspective. >> thank you. well, the delta variant is pushing covid hospitalizations to levels not seen in months in this country. also causing a surge in cases among children. a new cnn analysis shows which groups of children are being most impacted by coronavirus. you'll want to see these numbers. plus, former president trump is threatening to invoke executive privilege to block house investigators from getting their hands on do...

Plane take off. nick payton walsh, you have been covering the terror threat to the airport as well. what effect should we expect on the evacuations going forward? >> reporter: yeah, i'm sure this will have a very chilling effect on the evacuation as we understand it in its sort of closing phases. the key thing from the pentagon spokesman kirby's tweets is outside karzai international airport. there is a clear line where the airport begins and where it ends. also, too, where the u.s. or nato-controlled part of it is and where it is not. we are talking about the areas we fear, crowded areas wher...

For days and nights on end, hoping for a slim chance to get through those taliban checkpoints and the threats and on one of the few remaining flights out of the country. i've spoken to people who have tried to go through this. you see the smoke dispersed there, most likely to control the crowds. a local journalist who shot this video says the taliban even sprayed water on people to push them away. they're not allowing access for many afghans. our team of reporters covering this developing story from all angles in these critical last hours of the evacuation, let's begin with cnn's nick payton w...

Expect to be still be doing the large bulk of processing of applicants, of afghan evacuees by the weekend. so as the 36-hour window left for them to work in, less now, in fact, given the time currently in kabul. so this operation coming certainly to a close. doesn't mean, for example, if an american passport holder turns up saturday, sunday they'll be refused evacuation, but that the large numbers we've been seeing daily, remarkable that they are, in the tens of thousands now reduced, though, to 13,000 in the last 24-hour period. that that may get even less still, for the simple fact, jim, we'...

Trump including his wife and children. it will rest with the current president and administration. cnn legal national security analyst joins us now to discuss. good to have you this morning asha. so, president does this all the time, right, tries to block access to documents, to testimony, et cetera. can he block this access? >> well, jim, it's going to be an uphill battle for him this time. so, executive privilege is not a personal privilege. it is a separation of powers, principle, that protects the executive branch from congressional or judicial overreach. and so the privilege itself is hel...