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To my head >> reporter: tonight she says the taliban are hunting down americans. now tens of thousands of vulnerable afghans were also left behind. international flights are still not taking off from kabul, and traveling over land is dangerous. here in pakistan, the government is really only letting people into the country who have all the right documents or who need serious medical care tom? >> molly hunter with that update from the region, molly, thank you. in just 60 seconds, the crisis for millions of americans as unemployment benefits run out, and our tv exclusive, the accuser whose all...

Her american passport but the taliban didn't let her through. >> i got gun pointed to my head. >> reporter: she said the taliban are hunting down americans. >> so peter baker, obviously you spent an awful lot of time, you and susan spent an awful lot of time, studying about, reading up on, writing about james baker, just the consummate washington insider. one of the complaints that have been levelled against the biden administration is that they are -- it is an administration filled with a lot of staffers and very few principals like james baker. how important is it for a president to have som...

Chancellor angela merkel. he's about as prepared as you can get. we heard the first lady say a few days ago he's overprepared. of course the stakes are certainly high, but the expectations actually quite low of what tangible effects will come out of this summit. he'll make his way there really surrounded by every top adviser he has, briefing books and everything else, but by tonight he'll be in geneva and the big meeting tomorrow. john? >> jeff zeleny, thank you for your reporting. terrific work. joining us now susan glasser. great to see you. look, you write or have written that when it com...

Huge outlier, as a country that is unable to get the political will to actually achieve effective gun control. i think here in london and elsewhere, there's a lot of curiosity and disdain. and just a lot of question marks about why things aren't able to be done. and so, i think that's a big question that americans have to answer, especially as they try to project the role in the world and their sense of kind of -- their morality in the world. >> yes, it's unusual to see other countries saying don't go to the united states. that's not been the role that the united states has played in the world...

Republicans and democrats, preferably from red states so it doesn't seem like it's the province of coastal elites. and we're going to get some things done on background checks, or limiting or banning assault rifles and also on so-called red flag laws. instead, he hasn't done this. he's essentially just kicked the can down the road and said we'll deal with this in september. >> right. and an overwhelming number of americans according to a poll by npr favor background checks. some 89% think it is a good idea. we know there was an assault ban years ago. but it was able to expire during the bush a...