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Hit the deadline. >> reporter: yeah. i mean, the pace has been pretty incredible. for a while, the last few days you have been seeing planes coming in and out almost every hour or hour and a half. in fact, more than 20,000 evacuees have come through rthe air base. having said that, in the last 24 hours or so we've definitely seen a decrease in the number of flights arriving here and as was pointed out in the other report there, the numbers going out of kabul airport seem to be going down. there is what they describe here as a strategic pause. but it could be also a tapering down of those evacu...

Evacuated? >> many still. airport staff working on this process, i was told by folks familiar with the situation were getting tons of messages from afghans who still want to leave. this will be a pressing issue for tens of thousands of afghans moving forward and as many u.s. officials will have to accept, many they will not be able to help. the question will be after august 31st, tuesday, when we should see the entire military departure from that aircraft, how quickly will civilian flights open up and will the taliban prevent those people on the list, for example, from leaving the country? eva...

Evacuate to the taliban so as to allow them through checkpoints. i understand the u.s. has relied upon the taliban for this evacuation process. with all due respect, a lot of these afghan sivs, you know better than i, think the taliban is going to kill them and you've given them a list of their names. >> jake, we've aggressively, decisively disputed that report. we've given no list of all the american siv holders to the taliban or any other kind of big list. what your viewers need to understand is that the way we are moving, thousands and thousands of afghans at risk to the airport is asking t...

12-hour period yesterday. joining us now, white house security adviser jake sullivan. thanks for joining us. you have been worryied about a terrorist attack specifically at the kabul airport from the very beginning of this evacuation process. unfortunately this came to pass on thursday. the white house says that another attack is imminent. what can you tell us? just how much danger are u.s. service members in or afghans and americans, and others outside the airport? >> this is an exceedingly dangerous moment in an exceedingly dangerous mission, jake. we are doing everything in our power to pre...

0ur correspondent rajni vaidyanathan has been in afghanistan — she's now in delhi and she sent us this update on the security situation at the airport. as things are drawing to a close there is a heightened sense of security around kabul airport. the us embassy issued in boarding earlier saying that any us citizen should avoid going to the airport and the already said that any us citizens are already at the airport should leave immediately. us officials have been saying that this is potentially be the most dangerous part of this ongoing evacuation process and, of course, that's unsurprising ...