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Over the weekend. there are still many tens of thousands more so our work is very difficult. the men and women who are serving on the ground are fearless including the tenth mountain division so he has the resources he needs to do this, but it's up to the president whether he wants to extend the deadline. if he feels he needs to, he should. we, at the end of the day don't have a regard for what the taliban wants and we have a regard for our men and women who are serving, our families who are there as well as our allies and all of the translators and after gans who have helped us and who have m...

Rescue. possibly concerned about their own safety. there is some frustration because a lot of the afghans have made it onto the base and not necessarily connected with the siv program. there was a period of time where there was more humanitarian filtration system that they let people on who looked desperate. they sometimes let people on who showed an american-style visa which was essentially passed aroundgetting more of a handle on it. a lot can still go wrong but the ultimate question of how long does this go on for, for something president biden was clearly reluctant to necessarily address. ...

It doesn't seem like that's particularly likely because this could be an indefinite process to some degree. they don't know how many americans they are looking for. and the allied afghans could bring on, it's complicated and there could be an awful lot of them. so they could be doing this for weeks if they want to allow any afghan who feels they are eligible for the siv program to come forward. it's increasingly difficult for them. he mentioned specifically himself, the local afghans employed at the u.s. embassy. a source i spoke to said they feel those people have been, quote, screwed over be...

But they're not necessarily all eligible to be evacuated. i want to go straight to doha. nick paton walsh joins me now was also in kabul just a few days ago. we're getting this real sense of how many people are there on the ground, just clamoring to try to get out of kabul right now. >> yeah, i'm hearing from a source familiar with the situation on the airport that there are a total of 14,000 currently on the airport. that's people trying to get out. now it's not clear obviously amongst those who are europeans, american citizens, who are afghans who have got on to the base, who amongst those a...

Included in that universe of potential evacuees to include all of those groups of afghans? >> well, let me take this in turns. as you know, we have a commitment to the american citizens who are in afghanistan. we have spoken of our enduring commitment to those afghans who have worked with us. that includes our locally employed staff. that is to say those that worked with us at our embassy in kabul as well as the many brave afghans that partnered with the united states government over the course of some 20 years. many instances putting themselves or their families at risk. this so-called siv pr...