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Stranded. which is the case, general? what does your gut tell you? do we have people stranded or not? >> just look at the videos coming outs. look at the videos being sent out to ordinary people that have friends or relatives there. yeah, we have americans that are being stranded. i wonder what she knows about what she doesn't know as a press secretary. it is beyond me that she would get up there day after day and continue going down this path that americans are unrestricted in their movement to the airport that is not true. that is just simply not true. the evidence the overwhelming that amer...

Appropriate response that they have taken to make sure that we evacuate individuals, so the president needs to be strong here and to make clear to the taliban that we will be here until we get every american citizen out period. and do not allow these individuals to be running the show there. he needs to make it clear that we are going to get every american and leave none behind, that's exactly what we will be pressing them to do. and again, less than 10% right now of those being evacuated by the united states of america are u.s. citizens. there are a lot of questions here as to how they are go...

You know that this was a red line, the august 31 deadline and there's consequences if we ignored it or tried to run past it. what do they mean? you think they will make good on that threat? >> look at our position. then we'll understand what the taliban aren't doing. we do not want to widen the security circle around the airport. why? that means we'll push the taliban out. the administration doesn't want to engage the taliban, clash wi deal. and other countries are going with patrols inside the city and other places as well to extract citizens. we're not doing that. that would have the risk of...

Through at least the u.s. presence that is inside the airport. so they're calling the shots. it's disheartening to pulled it mildly. >> yes. if there's a perimeter, we're on the inside. they're out the outside. the position the taliban has out there, they're the ones that are basically combing through those that are coming in. the bigger question has been in my view at least, how did we get here. when we negotiate with the taliban, this administration and the last administration. this administration is overseeing the operation of transfer from afghanistan. did we not negotiate with the qataris...

Airport to exit the country? >> exactly, take out citizens first before withdrawing the remaining troops. the fact that we have more troops they are today then when we did when president biden announced a withdrawal, more than double the number of troops is -- shows he would a failure been. >> well now we do because of the personnel bringing in to get our people out, but we technically would have had fewer under the prior administration. but we can go back, i'm just wondering how you think it ends up? >> well, i think -- look, from here on, the only thing we can do is mitigate the damage. we n...