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Forces, who have their own unofficial channel within the airport and those essentially escorted on. but the numbers are a lot smaller. and so when secretary of state antony blinken talks about 500 for certain americans that need to get out and 1,000 who they are looking for and might need their assistance, that is of course high priority. and the window for that is rapidly closing. it is now already late afternoon in kabul, so they are looking to tomorrow, they are seeing the u.s. leaving and their allies. the brits tonight. i should tell you one more thing, as it panic tightens, i was told by a source familiar with the situation that gulf stream jet tried to land a few hours ago this kabul airport. it was denied permission and flew off and it is thought that it contains another congressional delegation. remember two congressmen were kind of heavily criticized for flying in on resources that should be used for the evacuation a matter of days ago. ....
The base doing the evacuation, i understand from a source familiar with the situation get a lot of phone calls from people in washington saying please can you help x or y person who is our contact. totally understandable that everybody wants to try to help their friends out. but of course it is creating a lot of chaos. and i understand from one source that at times people get asked to try to go to the gate to collect somebody fast they were going to the backyard. these gates are very secure and very volatile, so we have a very hard task for everybody involved in that base under perilous security conditions, great desperation from afghans around them and the window for it is now very small. cnn had reporting yesterday that was just so riveting about a woman who came to the airport, dressed her baby in bright yellow because the american military had been told look for the woman with the baby in the yellow. i mean, that was a series of text messages and whatsapp messages to try to conne ....
Everything is being pulled out and i don t think that it is smart for others to go. you are putting yourself not yourself in harm s way, but you are putting americans in harms way if the military has to protect you, and which they will do and they should not. moulton and meijer say that they secretly flew to kabul to witness the situation for themselves. congressman meijer defending the trip. we have not had the information that we need from the administration, we waited for a plane that had open seats to make sure that we didn t take away anything from individuals who needed it. and actually went several hours out of our way the pentagon though doesn t see it that way. they say they were unaware of the decision by moulton and meijer to visit afghanistan and that their visit took time away from the mission u.s. forces were trying to conduct. prime minister of israel is visiting the white house today and for the first time in 12 years, it will not be benjamin netanyahu. he w ....
Somewhere in the region of 100,000 people shipped out in a matter of four to five days. that is just remarkable. but also informs i think the rapidly closing window that we re seeing on the ground. i understand from a source familiar with the situation that things will end friday in terms of the evacuation operation itself. it is hampered by the skirt around the airport, taliban have checkpoints, but they only let people it seems who prearranged access. and of course they have at the gates this enduring issue with a bomb threat, an ied threat maybe linked to isis-k. that has leds gate for the most part to be closed. abby gate is now fully closed i understand. and people are being moved away from there although i m sure this news of a reduced time table will change some of the dynamics there. who still gets on the airport it seems it is those who have contacts with afghan security ....
It does seem as though another private jet has tried to bring more in. unclear who they are, but startling at this time desperation that somebody would think to put themselves in that situation and use up the runway. nick, thank you so much. and speaking of those two congressmen who took a secret bipartisan trip to afghanistan to witness the evacuation efforts firsthand, well, they are drawing bipartisan condemnation now. these unauthorized visits catching the white house and house leadership completely off guard. it is not just about them going to afghanistan. there is a call on our resources diplomatically, politically, militarily and the rest in the region as well. so this is deadly serious. we do not want members to go. i don t think others really have the opportunity to go since ....