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Correspondent leigh ann caldwell and tim miller, writer at large for the bulwark and an msnbc contributor. leigh ann, just take me inside both the substance of what's being discussed and the tension and the mood up there. >> reporter: so, nicole, the mood is palpable in the sense that there is a lot of stress and anxiety but also excitement. so, the members are walking in behind me, going into this closed doors to really get a status update of what happened after a weekend of negotiations between speaker pelosi, the white house, senate democratic leader schumer, and various members of the demo...

Anyone on manifests prompting security concerns and the agency is not stopping them from taking off. what are your contacts at the state department and in the administration, senator, telling you about the process to evacuate two planes at an airport in the northern part of the country. can you give us a status update? >> well there seems to be some type of conflict between those who are seeking to take off and the taliban saying that some of them don't have the appropriate travel documents, and that is, as i understand it, the issue at stake. the reality is, is that we just simply as far as i...

Leader remains in afghanistan, has not fled the country the way president ghani did when kabul fell but not saying where he is. >> raph sanchez, thank you for the reporting. i want to bring in marina lagree of the organization ascend which empowers women in athletics and marina, good morning to you. i should note, too, i'm familiar with your organization since one of my in-laws used to be on the board. thank you for being here. can you give us a status update? where do things stand at 10:29 eastern time on the planes and evacuation? >> good morning to you, too. unfortunately there's not much...

So, there are a lot of taliban soldiers in particular that are going from home to home to home in search of folks in particular. people are hiding, their lights are off, they're not leaving their homes. their windows are painted black. and they're in fear for their life. so that's kind of the makeup of what's happening in afghanistan today. >> you were part of a rally in hayward, california, last week. what are other members of the afghan-american community telling you about what's going on right now? >> the afghan-american community here, the diaspora, which is one of the largest in theinatio...

Abandon and put down the arms and take off, and that is what has happened. thank you very, very much. thank you. >> why do you continue to press the taliban, mr. president -- >> we have been listening to the president provide a status update and the extraordinary effort to evacuate the american citizens is and afghan allies to remain in country and any american who wants to come home, we get you home, and the president says that he makes that same commitment to the afghans who assisted in the u.s. war effort. we will unpack all that we have heard with the panel. we have washington post foreign...