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Gate. the second thing you have to consider is, it was a crush to get out, with tens of thousands of people. and as i said the other night when we were talking, probably the majority of those people had no documentation. they were just trying to get to the front of the line to escape from the taliban. and then, you've got a very small entrance point to the airfield, manned by the marines, and as we talked about, this is a neo, a noncom battant evacuation operation in a nonpermissive environment. so those marines that were out there were doing their very best depending on the taliban outside th...

And as i said the other night when we were talking, probably the majority of those people had no documentation. they were just trying to get to the front of the line to escape from the taliban. and then, you've got a very small entrance point to the airfield, manned by the marines, and as we talked about, this is a neo, a noncom battant evacuation operation in a nonpermissive environment. so those marines that were out there were doing their very best depending on the taliban outside the gate to conduct the initial screening, to conduct the final screening, and to look at the paperwork and pas...

The other option, and i think this is where they're leaning and we're hearing this from people in afghanistan. they're going to put a padlock on the gates and run like hell and get on the airplanes and get out. a sad and embarrassing day for the united states, but i think that's the choice they're going to make. that's what the people on the ground are telling us they're being told. basically run, panic. we even heard one say get on foot and go north and hope you can get to the border. those are the kinds of things running through the city of kabul right now. and that creates its own chaos. th...

Because the nights have been quite volatile, sometimes quite violent. we have to see. certainly during the course of the day it's been quieter than it has been for the last 48 hours or so. who is doing the marshalling outside the airport now, then? well, the main focal point is the space outside the british base, which is a hotel. now, that has become also a bit of a choke point because to go through to the control points of other countries which are evacuating people, the americans, the germans, the french, etc, they have to pass through this route. and because there has been a logjam in proc...