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Americans will be gone. this is a hostage crisis of the biden administration construction and yesterday we heard tony blinken saying 1500 americans is in conceivable that they would be evacuated by august 31st. under any circumstance. and that doesn't -- let's not forget the green card holders and the siv 1 visa holders and others. so it seems that the evacuation surely will be halted or suspended and maybe it is over. >> peter burgen, one final question, the taliban, the u.s. one evacuationplace plan is dependent to the taliban. you've heard the taliban say they will allow access to the airpo...

Time. so you can imagine it's going to be very busy there right now while they try to tend to those who may be wounded and try and determine exactly what has happened. and, of course, as cnn has reported for several days now, the u.s. has been very concerned about the threat of an attack at the airport from isis-k, essentially, isis in afghanistan. as you have reported, jim, there is very specific intelligence for the last several days that isis-k was planning an attack at the airport. we don't know if this is isis-k, but it is something that u.s. intelligence and the u.s. military had been wa...

Whether the u.s. military personnel at the airport went outside of the wire to respond to the situation, we just don't know that information at this point. but again, this is the impetuous for why president biden has wanted to get u.s. troops, those nearly 6,000 who arrived in kabul to facilitate this evacuation, outside of kabul, outside of harm's way. of course it is a cost benefit analysis here for the president as he tries to evacuate americans and afghans that have helped the u.s. >> it is also reason, this threat, that access to the airport has been very difficult for people trying to fl...

And i suspect the courts will expedite this because i don't think there is a really compelling argument here for him in his personal capacity, you know, or as a former official to say these things need to be protected. if he comes up with some great legal argument that really overrides the current administration's argument, that's one thing. but i think that the delay will be far less than when he was actually president himself. >> asha, thanks so much for breaking it all down. >> thank you. well, the window to leave afghanistan is rapidly closing. thousands of afghans who worked with the u....

And we will help you get there. >> it's a sad fact. flights may be taking off, but access to that airport is a problem, even for americans. kylie atwood, thanks very much. president biden has been presented with contingency plans, but he is standing by that august 31st withdrawal deadline. cnn's jeremy diamond joins me from the white house. jeremy, i wonder, will anything move the president on this? i mean, if you have a line of buses of americans still can't get into the airport, that's americans, right? not to mention many afghans who are eligible for special immigrant visas who simply can...