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As they're concerned -- their final day for the u.s. to be there. and the u.s. military has drastically ramped up the number of evacuations of americans and others. as cnn's oren liebermann reports for us now, the evacuation process was further complicated today with the taliban saying that they will no longer let any afghans enter the airport to leave the country. >> reporter: the tide of afghan evacuees flowing out of kabul is at a new peak. as the effort to move as many people as possible enters its final seven days. 21,600 people flown out in 24 hours. averaging nearly 350 per flight. that...

Underestimate the powerful message he has given to the public, which is effectively, the war is over and our boys and girls are coming home. that matters to americans. what they are concerned about is the manner in which it is happening. if the evacuation process goes to plan and people are given safe passage, i think the american people will move on quite quickly. foreign policy doesn't affect them unless they are directly affected. the problem forjoe biden is if there will be any fatalities, if any american troops are killed or at least injured during any kind of evacuation process, i think ...

Imposing vaccine mandates at this point? >> no. i think that you have 80 plus million people who told you they didn't want to get vaccinated even though they know 650,000 people have died, even though they know that the vaccine is safe and effective. they just don't want it. they're telling you this is a civil liberty or personal choice. and i think the only way that you're going to get that group vaccinated is to compel them to be vaccinated by mandates. >> what about kids under the age of 12? when will the fda approve vaccines and dosage for them? >> it doesn't look like pfizer has yet submi...

People at the gates of the airpo airport. that is of deep concern. there is concern they want to try to reopen the gates to get the evacuation process going for the 10,000 inside this airport will be the last ones being evacuated and there are many, many thousands of others including american citizens according to the state department who are expecting to be evacuated. i can hear gunfire over to my left. kate? >> sam, thank you so much for your continued fantastic reporting there. really appreciate it. "outfront" with me now democratic congressman mike briefed as a member of the house intell...

This over concerns that the evacuations simply won't be done by then. the taliban pushed back this morning, saying they want all u.s. forces out of the country by the end of the month as promised. cnn's john harwood joins me now. john, does the white house care about that? do they listen to the taliban? >> reporter: oh, i don't think the taliban's statement is going to be determinetive of what president biden does as he has indicated. look, there have been several adjustments made to the evacuation process in the last couple days. one is some operations outside the airport walls we saw those c...