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0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didn't have the capacity to take any more people. this has its situation outside the airport gets more desperate. thousands of afghans hoping for a chance...

0 . the pullout has been a whole different story. >> a special thank you to all o our guests that have joined us in our amazing reporters with their first-hand stories covering afghanistan over that decades. >> the best in the business. >> continuing coverage on the fox news channel. the story with martha mac callum start right now. >> what annout standing middle east team we have and the coverage over the years brings something to this story that i don't think you'll find anywhere else. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum in new york. we continue our coverage right now on "the sto...

Their families that the biden administration is looking to evacuate. now, i can tell you for sure that there are going to be groups that say, that isn't a high enough number. what about the women who are facing these threats from the taliban? but that is what he's saying right now. so that is an interesting number for us to keep our eyes on. but the backdrop to all of this is all of these people getting to the airport. and i think cnn has adequately covered, it is a dangerous journey. the united states still not saying that they can assure that those on the way to the airport are safe, but pre...

7,000 people in total that the u.s. has evacuated since this effort began a few days ago. that isn't a high enough number if they're trying to get upwards of 100,000 people out of the airport. now, two things that the pentagon press secretary said they are looking to. that they hope can increase those numbers. first, they're opening up one gate at the kabul airport that the u.s. military is going to be in charge of. the second thing is rushing u.s. consular officers to the airport. essentially, those are folks who can process the afghans, paperwork and get them on the flights. the afghans who ...

Willing to give you to keep you on this side of them. >> the question is whether you can use aide as leverage and whether the taliban care and whether you can compromise in using that aid on so many american principles. but what we need to be careful about is blaming the taliban for a country that already is on a massive economic crisis where the poverty rate has doubled over the last five years. with a population increase far beyond the level of the economy and where 80 % of the government's income came from outside donors. this isn't a matter simply of the taliban failed state. it's a matter...