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Hour. thank you so much with the latest. with us now, white house reporter for ""the washington post" and cnn host john harwood. great to have both of you. how is it possible senators joe manchin and kristin sinema or mansinema, if they won't give a number they are comfortable in or want in or out of this package, how is that a negotiation? >> you just expressed a lot of fro frustrations coming out in the corners of the democratic party right now. while progressives may not see eye to eye on policy with manchin and sinema, they want them to give them something. give them a framework so progres...

Airport for whatever reason. what we do know is that 6,000 people are now at the airport. 6,000 people have been able to make it, have made it through the processing and as of a couple of hours ago we received only a small handful of reports otherwise from american citizens. >> reporter: so just to follow up on that, and you say you are doing everything you can, but also yesterday defense secretary austin --. >> you have been listening to ned price there, the spokesperson for the state department, talk about where we are and the status of all of the people, the tens of thousands of people who ...

We've already started a booster shot last week for those who had immuno compromised conditions. cdc says eight months. they provided more studies to support eight months. at least eight seems to be their suggestion to get your third dose. >> thank you. >> don't forget, mask on, everybody. >> thank you. as desperate afghans struggle to escape, americans try to help. one marine's mission to get a translator and his family to safety, next. and join cnn for we love new york city, the homecoming concert. it all starts saturday at 5:00

Walsh. as you can see we're awaiting the briefing. we will bring it to you as soon as possible. we have cnn counterterror analyst phil mudd who helped build the afghan government that just fell. phil, obviously it has been a sobering few days for you to watch. what do you want to hear the state department explain today? >> i want to hear the explanation, not today but in the future, of not why kabul fell so quickly. i think when you look at -- when the taliban first rose in 1995 we were surprise d, i was one o the analysts on that problem, we were surprised how quickly they moved through. we a...

Time frame, all troops. they didn't argue against that. >> so no one told -- your military advisers did not tell you, no, we should keep 2,500 troops, it has been a stable situation for the last several years, we can do that, we can continue to do that? >> no, no one said that to me that i can recall. >> so can that be reconciled with the reporting, jeff? >> reporter: no, because the reality is at the time when this withdrawal was first announced here at the white house in april, there was much reporting by cnn and elsewhere that there were military commanders who were very worried about, you ...