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During the bush administration, we basically learned that the initial mission to get al qaeda then bled into a number of other missions, did he mockitiesization, sending girls to school, reforming the economy. that was a mistake. naming this a war on terror as if that was something that would ever have a defined beginning and end. i think that was a mistake. during the obama administration, doing the surge and then counting on the afghans to fill in for the retreating americans and they couldn't. should've been a warning to us. during the trump administration, making a deal with the taliban th...

-- just over 12 hours earlier today. our pentagon correspondent oren leisure lieberman joins me now. what more can you tell us about -- is there a commitment to all 350 of these americans who want to get out of afghanistan that they're going to be on planes in the next 72 hours. >> we heard that from president joe biden multiple times that he would get every u.s. citizen who wants to leave out. it's worth noting the administration said there are several hundred american citizens who decided to stay at this time. until that last second, if they change their mind, the administration will do what...

How does the u.s. get those americans out, get our afghan allies out, keep these troops safe in the face of these new specific credible threats? >> poppy, it's going to be really hard, and i think these next 72 hours before the deadline of august 31st are going to be particularly fraught. you had three separate problems. first is this specific threat that the white house and the defense department talked about tonight. that is very reminiscent of just a few days ago, the night before the suicide bomb that killed those 13 american marines. and so it feels like we've got a moment of deja vu here...

Petrol station. that's the kind of intelligence and information that's leading to this new warning. we've seen over the course of the past two weeks that the u.s. used helicopter missions to bring americans into the airport. those were of short distance and duration, but perhaps it will be something like that or a covert operation instead of bringing them through gates. there is some time left in this evacuation, but a very little bit. there's essentially sunday, it's early sunday morning already in afghanistan, monday, and at least part of tuesday. but as is obvious from the declining numbers...

Get out. from the people that we've been talking to, it sounds like some of them were already inside the base or on the way. i think the question is what about the americans we don't know about or those who might change their mind? and how you get them out once the u.s. no longer has a presence. that's an issue. and then the third issue, of course, are the afghans, of which there are tens, maybe hundreds of thousands. the president has promised to get them out too, those who helped the united states. but when the british left today, poppy, their commander said it's a tragedy, but we weren't ab...