but jake sullivan and jen psaki were both asked multiple times about the deadline. right now, the deadline for the americans to leave afghanistan is august 31, and so the question repeatedly was, do you commit to staying a little bit longer if you don't manage to get all of these thousands of americans and afghan allies out of afghanistan by then? asked multiple times, neither jen psaki nor jake sullivan would make a full on commitment, saying that right now they were focused on getting people out to the august 31 deadline. jen psaki also said there were at least 11,000 american citizens that have been self identified to u.s. authorities who are currently still in afghanistan. so you see this is going to be a huge process in the coming weeks. earlier, the pentagon saying they are hoping to have at least between 5000 and 9000 people getting out of afghanistan every day in the coming days and weeks. anchor: caroline, thank you for bringing us up-to-date in washington on the situation. the first french flight out of kabul landed in paris early this evening. on board, 4

>> jake sullivan sure is impressive. i was very reassured by his poise coming into the events and the straightforward responses. i would tell you for the last three presidents, the military, the cia said if we pull out, it collapses, you end up with a humanitarian disaster. that's why we stayed for four presidents. i think mr. biden said we're coming out. he ignored the warnings because he's probably correctly said this is going to happen in the future if we stay another three months or so. i think biden made the right call. the tragic consequences occurred much more rapidly than any of them seemed to happen. the intelligence undoubtedly warned them that this thing's on the edge. without special operations, us air power, it was a goner. >> why weren't afghan allies evacuated much earlier in this process? jake sullivan said it would have potentially signalled a lack of confidence in the u.s. by the afghan government and there would have been a domino effect. what's your take on that assertion, general mccaffrey? >> i thin

jake sullivan was talking there. i'm still confused about the number of afghan helpers, translators, fixers, et cetera still trapped in afghanistan that fear for their lives and that are trying to get out. and i found, frankly, jen psaki and the national security advisor noncommittal if you can't get them all out at this rate by august 31st, can you guarantee them safe passage? you were on the ground and spent time in kabul more than a year. how hard will it be to save these people? >> thank you for the question. this is a painfully difficult problem set. yes, the intent would define a way to get them back but there is no mechanism to bring them out of the inner land. if they didn't get out before the final push of the taliban, this is a tragic aspect of this scenario that is unfolding. everybody is trying to do their best but unfortunately, we're a bit behind the power curve here and if these -- if there were to be a major flow from the inner land, it needed to start way back when the trimmers and indications that u

and on that note, jake sullivan. — how. and on that note, jake sullivan, the _ how. and on that note, jake sullivan, the national- how. and on that note, jake | sullivan, the national adviser how. and on that note, jake . sullivan, the national adviser in the us has been speaking to television seeing the taliban have been communicating publicly and privately that they will allow for safe passage for americans and others to leave afghanistan after the us military withdrawal ends next week. what do we know about contacts between the uk and the taliban to ensure a similar pathway for other people who want to leave, uk nationals and afghans who worked with the uk, to leave afghanistan? the government is saying openly that it is going to engage with the taliban, alongside other international partners and countries. what borisjohnson has been seen to date they also will hold to account the terms of women and girls education, the safer routes out of afghanistan and talk about the potential of unlocking billions of pounds of funding in order to do that, recognition of the re

jake sullivan said stranded americans made a choice to stay. ned price from the state department downplays at the airport as congestion in kabul. just a small handful of americans are blocked from leaving. they don't know how many americans are trapped there so what was the actual plan? nancy pelosi down plays billions of dollars of military hardware and saying that is what happens. taliban is reporting to turn afghanistan in the world's i'veest narco state. another loss to the white house over the its border policies. we've got that. democrats scrambling over massive crease sees and they may not have the votes to take up the bill in the house next week. the botched trump russia investigation. what doesn't the american public know? 40 gop senators now demand attorney general merrick garland make public john durham's coming report on his probe. potential criminal charges could be involved. florida gop governor ron desantis at democrats defund the police push. what he is doing to bolster the police force in the sunshine state. thanks for joining

we just heard from the white house, jake sullivan. now you're about to see a grilling of the state department. what is going on at this airport in terms of what they're telling americans, can they get out safely as the scramble continues to get thousands of americans who still live in afghanistan out now that the taliban have taken control most hastily

because while jake sullivan and the other aides were saying this morning that they did have contingency plans in place, no one expected it to go down the way that it is, where there are people that are so desperate to leave they are clinging to the wheels of u.s. aircraft leaving the airport in kabul. you've seen from our reporters on the ground the debacle and the chaos there now. and it is not just getting u.s. staff out, but big questions facing the questions about getting the national afghans out who have served for two decades safely out therefore as well so they are not targeted for the taliban. that is facing president biden when he does return to the white house in a few hours. >> thank you so much for that reporting. >>> and the tate department is also scheduled to hold a press conference in just hours. as now the united states government faces the prospect of needing engage with a taliban government now running afghanistan. kylie atwood is at the state department with much more on this. kylie, what are you learning? >> reporter: so one question that we're all looking at right

>> joining me now is president biden's national security adviser jake sullivan. mr. sullivan, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start with the security situation around the airport in kabul. it appears to be deteriorating. there's now a threat from isis, terror attacks against americans. is the administration considering sending more troops to try to secure the perimeter and secure the area? >> at the moment we believe we have sufficient forces on the ground, but every single day the president asks his military commanders, including those at the airport and those at the pentagon whether they need additional resources, additional troops. so far the answer has been no. he'll ask again today. >> how many americans have trying to get out of afghanistan? this has been a question you've been asked numerous times, and we haven't known the answer. on this sunday morning, do we know the answer? >> well, we know that it's roughly a few thousand, chuck. let me explain to the american people why we don't exactly know. because when people come to

>> joining me now is president biden's national security adviser jake sullivan. mr. sullivan, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start with the security situation around the airport in kabul. it appears to be deteriorating. there's now a threat from isis, terror attacks against americans. is the administration considering sending more troops to try to secure the perimeter and secure the area? >> at the moment we believe we have sufficient forces on the ground, but every single day the president asks his military commanders, including those at the airport and those at the pentagon whether they need additional resource, additional troops. so far the answer has been no. he'll ask again today. >> how many americans have trying to get out of afghanistan? this has been a question you've been asked numerous times, and we haven't known the answer. on this sunday morning, do we know the answer? >> well, we know that it's roughly a few thousand, chuck. let me explain to the american people why we don't exactly know. because when people come to a

senator, you just heard my conversation with national security advisor jake sullivan. your reaction? >> senator mcconnell: yeah, i think what's been lost in all this, chris, is why we went there in the first place. we went there to prevent the taliban from having a regime that would allow terrorists to reconstitute the b themselves at us here at home. it's been a total success. this term "endless war," let's take a look at it. the last seven months, the afghans have lost more people fighting than we have over 20 years. they've taken 65,000 casualties, we've taken roughly 2,000 in 20 years. the last year and a half we lost no one. with the continued deployment of 2500 people, we were in effect keeping a lid on, keeping terrorists from reconstituting, and having a light footprint in the country. the policy was working. therefore, i think calling it an endless war or claiming that we are somehow trying to get involved in a civil war is domestic civil war is simply not accurate. we went over there to protect us here at home. we have not had a mass casualty attack from over

jake sullivan, national security advisor, saying he wants opec us to do more. brian deese of the national economic council leading on the ftc to look into gasoline prices for "illegal conduct." this is the administration making some noise on oil that is too high, presumably because gasoline prices are too high. tom: it is not my interest, but frankly, i want to know who is driving the bus on this policy for the biden administration. this doesn't sound like the brian deese we know. i'm not going to mince words. jonathan: this one is hard to get your head around. crude right now, $67.50 on wti. let's get some movers. here's remain -- here's romaine. romaine: those comments definitely going to be talked about throughout the day. seeing some reaction already in shares of occidental and marathon petroleum. palermo is one of the biggest refineries as well. both of those stocks a little bit lower in the premarket. it is going to take a little bit of time to sort this out and figure out whether there's any sort of real-world impact and any sort of market impact here. f

earlier on today, nbc's savannah guthrie pressing national security adviser jake sullivan on comments made by the president in recent days and weeks, saying the u.s. departure from afghanistan would not echo america's chaotic exit from saigon in 1975. >> how do you explain getting this so wrong? >> first, savannah, to be fair, the helicopter has been the mode of transport from our embassy to the airport for the last 20 years. >> but you know it's not the helicopter. it's not the mechanism. no, no, it's the last-minute scramble. you know that. it's the last-minute scramble when the assurances from the president himself were this is not what we were going to see. >> it is certainly the case that the speed with which cities fell was much greater than anyone anticipated, including the afghans, including many of the analysts who looked hard at this problem. and part of the reason for that, is because at the end of the day, despite the fact that we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the afghan national securi

she's obviously been listening to everything that jake sullivan said. barbara, what jumped out to you? should we ever have real numbers? i appreciate that jake sullivan spelled out why they're not able to give exact number. >> that makes sense. >> that makes sense, helped to know that the americans didn't register with the embassy when they had gone and continued its evacuation process admission? >> well, right now, the pentagon is really aiming to be out by that deadline of august 31st. that's what they are working towards. and for good reason. the taliban don't appear to be willing to agree to any extension the longer u.s. troops stay, they are more risk they are at from isis. and this is becoming rapidly a very difficult mission to basically sustain. to provide food, water, sanitation to all of the thousands of afghans that are coming to the airport, trying to get through. so many thousands are already on the airfield, trying to get flights out. it's a very, very difficult proposition. so, given that, they are going to try very hard to wrap it up. an

that was a point jake sullivan did try to hammer home. as for the president, we are expecting to hear from him again tomorrow on the situation in afghanistan. he is expected to now return to the white house tonight earlier than initially planned and ultimately we'll see tomorrow if he provides more answers to the questions for which we do in the have answers. >> jeremy, thank you. appreciate it. i want to go to fareed zakaria. he says the white house was his words clear eyed when they made the decision to get out of afghanistan. that the taliban could take over but of ybviously, if that was cr eyed, we don't want to know what foggy eyed is. >> that's right. there is no question they must have recognized that the taliban were going to at some point probably take over or at least share power. otherwise we wouldn't -- look, the reason the united states gave up on afghanistan was it was not able to defeat the taliban. it was an implicit recognition of the enduring strength the taliban has but it's one thing to decide you're going to withdrawa

earlier i spoke with national security adviser jake sullivan and further pressed on how many americans could need way out does the u.s. have a number now in the number of americans still in afghanistan who have not been able to make their way to the airport? >> we don't have a precise number and the reason is because we ask americans to register with the u.s. government when they arrive in country. so a number of people come they sign up, and then they leave and never let us know they left. so we can't know for certain exactly how many americans are in country. >> we've been hearing a lot of stories about people unable to get to the airport because the taliban are pushing crowds back. you telling me there is a safe and reliable route now to the airport for anyone who wants to leave >> we have gotten regular reports that american citizens seeking to come to the airport have been able to get to the airport. the issue that we are confronting is that at the gates of the airport, there are large crowds we're working through that we're getting them through. we're getting them on planes we're

now, jake sullivan saying the u.s. is in touch with taliban commanders around the airport to try and ensure the safe passage of a lot of these afghan allies, translators, allies, people that worked with u.s. and nato forces, so that they could get themselves to the airport for a flight out. there have been a lot of reports that those people are being held up at some of the checkpoints, some of them have reportedly been beat up. you can imagine, many would be too scared to even try to brave a trip to the airport. they are not saying that everyone is getting through but they are saying they are talking about this with the taliban. matt: it is interesting, we are hearing from jake sullivan that the u.s. was clear eyed on this risk. we heard yesterday from the president himself that the u.s. was prepared for every contingency. does that mean we are expected to believe that what we are watching, that the u.s. was repair for what we are watching in afghanistan right now? bill: it is a pretty hard so. -- sell. even before the

look at jake sullivan. >> [inaudible]. there are americans and afghan allies who remain there, will u.s. troops stay until everyone is out or will they leave? >> so i'm not going to comment on height calls. i will stay focused on the task at hand which is getting as many people out as rapidlying a possible. we will take that day by day. elizabeth: okay. enough with the blase talking points. this isn't playing with the american people. senator, people are done, they don't want this idiotic, patently false talking points pouring out of the administration. you will have a hearing. senate foreign relations will have a hearing. pelosi saying the biden team will testify as early as next week. is that going to happen? >> well what we need right now is action and there are 6,000 troops that are going to be on the ground there. people cannot get to the airport. they need to have a plan to get people to the airport so that they can exit the country. now, i don't know how far they're going to be able to push that perimeter out. i don

. >> national security adviser jake sullivan framed the fallout in afghanistan as inevitable outcome of concluding 20 years of war but said there were other forces that caused the chaos. >> we communicated with american citizens for weeks telling them to get out of country. the afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave, made a passionate case that we should not conduct a mass evacuation less we trigger a loss of confidence in the government. >> evidently the least confident afghan president ghani who fled the country sunday. president biden has not since spoken with him. the administration is instead negotiating the safe exit of americans and possibly allies with the taliban. now in possession of u.s. military weapons. >> given to the afghan national security forces to be able to defend themselves at the specific request to president ghani, certainly a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the taliban and obviously we don't have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us. >> the white house is also managing regiona

that's one thing jake sullivan said. they intend to hold the taliban to that commitcommitment. it is the taliban, so whether or not that holds remains to be seen. back in july, president biden says he does not trust the taliban. that's a big factor as to what is going on. there's a will the of questions about what happened and what led the united states to having to send 6,000 troops to the area to conduct this evacuation. the national security adviser said he takes responsibility, president biden takes responsibility. the defense secretary, the intelligence arms of all the decisions that the u.s. has made when it comes to afghanistan. he did say there are other factors on the ground there on the ground to blame. part of that was president trump's agreement with the taliban. they they continued with president biden said yesterday itlack of . they will conduct an assessment of where the weak spots were and the u.s. role in how the evacuation and draw down went forward. one big question we had is what president biden is doing behind the scenes when he's at camp david. that's wher

. >> so we heard from jake sullivan this morning on good morning america. he mentioned 90% of those on the ground in afghanistan and a small number that remains, reached out, they got out. as many people as they could. is the administration placing blame on americans that couldn't get to the airport in time? >> i think what the president stated clearly and i know that jake sullivan stated clearly and our secretary of state has stated clearly is that our commitment remains. there's not an end to commitment to american citizens in afghanistan that want to leave. that's the same for any country in the world. for american citizens that want to leave and come home to the united states. it's also important for people to note and understand what the process has been and what we've just gone the past few months and that's what the president laid out and we think it's important for the american people in the united states to understand that. >> we heard from the president. [inaudible] does the administration believe al-quaida is no longer a threat to american and gi

all of the tools that we used to fight in afghanistan, here is jake sullivan on that. listen. >> we don't have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone. but, certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the taliban. and obviously we don't have a sense that they're going to readily hand it over to us at the airport. todd: i mean joey, you know how this, would. you know where the weapons go. you understand sort of like the path that these weapons go and whose hands they get into. how bad is this and what are the ramifications for us quite frankly in the homeland? >> it's terrible. it's absolutely terrible. i don't know it information i just know the pictures circuited social media. pretty sensitive information like drone technology have fallen into the hands of our enemy. not only that but many of the vehicles weigh that used for the last 10 years were specifically designed to circumvent the impact of an ied which is the terrorist's number one tool against us. so if they can see how we prevented death and serious

. >>> this hour, national security adviser jake sullivan is expected to at least have to answer questions in the white house briefing room as president biden tries to focus on why we're leaving afghanistan rather than how. >>> the biden administration supports a third vaccine shot for most americans. mark eight months on the calendar, check your vaccine cards. at your 8 month anniversary from dose two, time for dose three. >>> welcome to "mtp daily." i am chuck todd. another busy august day in washington. this hour, we expect an update on the situation in afghanistan when white house press secretary jen psaki will be joined by jake sullivan in the briefing room. we'll go live to the white house when that begins. next hour, we expect to hear from the state department for their update as evacuations continue at the kabul airport. one would assume semi orchestrated here in washington. first the white house, then state. the pentagon confirmed the kabul airport is secure and the defense department goal is to have one flight leaving per hour in the next 24 hours, and they hope to move out 5 to

i want to bring into our coverage national security advisor jake sullivan. i don't know if you heard any of our reaction and i won't ask you to address any of it, but i wonder if you can speak to the president's forceful attempt, it would sound like, to beat down the critics. critics who say i hear this woulda, shoulda kept a small force there but as rick stengel is pointing out, there is no low risk military operation. >> i think the end of his speech really summed up what president biden believes about those who argue for another decade or two decades or three decades of american military involvement in afghanistan. those folks are arguing, as he said in his speech, that we could just have a low grade or low risk or low cost engagement there and president biden pointed out the very real human cost of staying at war. the costs borne by 1% of our population who fight in the armed forces and who year after year, decade after decade bore those costs in afghanistan. he said no. i'm not going to keep going. i'm not going to keep sending thousands of troops to fi

joining us now, white house security adviser jake sullivan. thanks for joining us. you have been worryied about a terrorist attack specifically at the kabul airport from the very beginning of this evacuation process. unfortunately this came to pass on thursday. the white house says that another attack is imminent. what can you tell us? just how much danger are u.s. service members in or afghans and americans, and others outside the airport? >> this is an exceedingly dangerous moment in an exceedingly dangerous mission, jake. we are doing everything in our power to prevent and disrupt the threat streams that we are seeing, and stopping any kind of attack that would endanger the lives of american service members or civilians trying to get into the airport. all we can do is mitigate risk. we cannot leliminate it. we are in a period of serious danger, given what we are see ing in the intelligence. we are taking every possible measure at the direction of the president to ensure that our forces are protected on the ground, even as they complete their mission, bringing in

you've got jake sullivan going if you are not in call but we cannot get to you. we are seeing images from all over afghanistan of the best case scenario of graffiti of women's faces on murals being painted over. then you have guys getting kicked in the head and women and children being shot and god knows what else is happening where there is not internet and there is not cell phone reporting. i do think unfortunately it could get very, very bad. if you lease the door open to go back inside and say maybe we need 20000 troops. maybe we need a nether surge, will be going going to say, chris? >> this is actually the worst case scenario. but i didn't want you to believe this other thing that no one was talking about is the worst case scenario. this is the worst case scenario exit they could possibly be imagined. you are absolutely right they're down side of this like i mentioned before, we have eroding public support of withdrawing troops which is the right thing to do. it is going to empower a handful of hawks that want to continue to have this endless war. they are

so seth, nice to see you again and let's take up the first question from jake sullivan, is the terror challenge, the budget fundamentally different, and from 20 years or 20 years after the fall. guest: i think it is different in one sense, the al qaeda in 2001, 20 years ago was actively fighting attacks against the u.s. linden u.s. interests overseas. it is been significantly weakened over time because of a persistence u.s. counterterrorism campaign in afghanistan and pakistan in the range of other countries overseas but the problem now is that the taliban continues to have a strategic level relationship with al qaeda and there is no room to operate and was been particular concerning over the past week is the release of thousands of foreign fighters including senior al qaeda operators from prison. in the kabul area and other places. so we have is a serious and growing terrorism problem in the country and is worth noting paul that we have seen a lot of jihadist chatter over the past couple of days, shifting their focus from as afghanistan as the global jihadist of this does not bode we

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there was a statement from the security adviser, jake sullivan, who l security adviser, jake sullivan, who confirmed that the us is likely to continue with air strikes, but pointing out that the president does not intend to start a new war in afghanistan. as it inevitable that it will lead to further conflict? i do not think so. the air strikes are targeted on ices k, the afghanistan offshoot of the united states, which is also an enemy of the taliban because it is challenging them for control. —— air strikes are targeted on isis k. i do not see this leading to a significant escalation, i think these are very specific, targeted strikes, which took place also, or at least on one occasion, in the 19905. , ., ~ ., ., ., ., 19905. there is talk that a lot of dama . e 19905. there is talk that a lot of damage has _ 19905. there is talk that a lot of damage has been _ 19905. there is talk that a lot of damage has been done - 19905. there is talk that a lot of damage has been done on - 19905. there is talk that a lot of i damage has been done on western allies going forward. what is your

they don't even know how many people are there. >> can't believe jake sullivan, national security devices still have a job at this point. it is his job to answer the question. >> i hire mister sullivan to secure an elementary school to get kids out of an elementary school that alone get thousands of americans, unknown number of americans out of the country like afghanistan. but these are the most experienced people ever, isn't that what nancy pelosi assured us, the most experienced team we ever had in washington. >> that's right. 12,000 estimated americans, jake sullivan doesn't know but those still in afghanistan, this hasn't been widely reported but another part of that press conference was and prioritizing americans to get them out first. why would americans not be prioritized to get them out of the country, they can't get to the airport. my office is receiving phone calls from americans and others in afghanistan who have no idea where to go or what to do because embassy has been vacated. there is no plan at all to get americans safely out of afghanistan and responsibly make this happe

jake sullivan at the white house. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> a critic of both president biden and former president trump over the afghanistan withdrawal, gop congressman adam kinzinger, who served there, will join us next. >>> some americans are taking a horse drug to ward off covid-19 symptoms. obviously, don't do that. the surgeon general will join us, ahead. hitting the road this summer? not all 5g networks are created equal. t-mobile covers more interstate highway miles with 5g than the other guys. t-mobile. america's largest, fastest, most reliable 5g network. joint pain, swelling, tenderness. my psoriasis. cosentyx® works on all of this. cosentyx can help you look and feel better by treating the multiple symptoms of psoriatic arthritis. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting, get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections—some serious— and the lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms, or if you've had a vaccine or pla

we just heard from the white house, jake sullivan. now you're about to see a grilling of the state department. what is going on at this airport in terms of what they're telling americans, can they get out safely as the scramble continues to get thousands of americans who still live in afghanistan out now that the taliban have taken control most hastily than anybody at the white house our intelligence agencies seemed to think would happen. meantime, let's look at this individual. he was a gitmo prisoner that was freed. one of the five. you remember this story. in exchange for bowe bergdahl. there was a lot of discussion in 2014 under president obama about whether or not this deal would put americans in danger. would these individuals return to the battlefield after they were set free from guantanamo bay. here's the answer. there he is on the left in moscow. he was sitting there with americans and our main negotiator as they negotiated the final terms of the american draw down in afghanistan. that was just before the taliban retook the

jake sullivan, jen psaki, john kirby. god bless them they are trying to get the word out about what they are being told but sometimes it is conflicting between all different sides. the pentagon said the number of americans in afghanistan was 5,000 to 10,000. jen psaki said 11,000. all kinds of different information coming from different sources and you are not hearing from the major players let alone the president of the united states. look at the schedule today. it is the covid schedule is what's dominating the schedule. and they are having a security leaders meeting now. we have an indication the president is going to be heading back to wilmington, delaware. >> dana: really? >> that's what we're hearing. >> bill: today? >> don't know if it's today or tomorrow but that's what we're hearing. >> democratic congressman from new jersey was on cnn earlier today. the only democratic member of congress i've seen on tv. we mentioned to trey gowdy we have invited dozens to join us and gotten nos from all of them. democrats blamed

this morning, national security adviser jake sullivan told nbc the u.s. military is still in the process of fully securing the airport. those are afghans under an air force plane, trying to climb on landing gear as it is trying to take off. if that is not a picture of desperation, i don't know what is. across the country, thousands of afghans are selling what they have, grabbing life savings, trying desperately to escape all at the same time. chief foreign correspondent richard engle is in kabul with the latest. richard? >> reporter: afghans are tlonging to the airport, desperate to leave the country at any cost. scaling the airport walls, rushing in this morning. no streeng, no security checks. just force of numbers. when they manage to push aboard planes, they're so crowded, pilots won't take off. no one agrees to disembark. it is all happening a few hundred yards from the military side of kabul airport, now separated by a row of barbed wire from the civilian side in chaos. the military side where the u.s. is staging an elaborate evacuation of american

you heard jake sullivan talk about the people eligible to leave. we hear a lot about the sivs and the thousands of people who evacuated so far. it's no small task. there san enormous undertaking to get out 37,000 people. just the sivs, leaving aside american citizens for a moment, we don't have a number, there are 20,000 siv aprilly kants in the system. that doesn't count the tens of thousands of other afghan that's worked with u.s. affiliated projects and now consider themselves vulnerable. the big story here and big question is going to be how long will the president's commitment go to evacuate everyone who feels unsafe. >> such a great pount. and howard, you work with the group that coordinated a civilian effort. you chartered a private flight to an airport there. help us understand how that process worked and why it was necessary. >> yeah. thank you so much for having me on the air. so our organization no one left behind, we've been around for a while. working on this issue. obviously, have put in an idea of what is going on. we partner with ot

. >> i can't believe that jake sullivan come in the national security advisor still has a job at this point. >> laura: how do any of these people? i would not hire -- i wouldn't hire mr. sullivan to secure an elementary school. okay, to get kids out of a elementary school let get thousands of americans unknown number of americans out of a country like afghanistan. i mean -- but these are the most experienced people ever, isn't that when nancy pelosi assured us? the most experienced team we have had in washington? >> that's right, laura, 12,000 estimated americans, jake sullivan does not know, but around 12,000 estimated americans that are still in afghanistan and this has not been widely recorded, but another part of that press conference with jake sullivan was that they aren't prioritizing americans, afghanistan to get them out first. why would americans not to be prioritized to get them out of the country where they can't even get to the airport. they don't know who to call. my office is receiving phone calls from americans and others in afghanistan who have no idea what to do, wher

senator you just heard my conversation with national security advisor jake sullivan. your reaction? the last seven months the afghans have lost more people fighting and we have over 20 years. they had taken 65000 casualties, we have taken roughly 2020 years. the last year and a half we have lost no one. and continuing to plummet 2500 people in effect we were keeping the lid on and keeping terrace from reconstituting and having a light footprint in the country. the policy was working. therefore i think calling it the endless war or claiming somehow we're trying to get involved in a civil war and domestic civil war is simply not accurate. we went over there to protect us here at home we have had not had a mash mass casualty attack in 20 years. i call that a successful policy. now over the next two days the military is doing the best they can with a horrible policy decision. this is one of the worst form policy decisions in history. much worse than saigon there were not vietnamese terrorist attacking us at home. then we leave behind exactly what we went in to solve 20 years ago. and i

that was jake sullivan, the national security advisor. alongside tom keene and lisa abramowicz, i'm jonathan ferro. we'll catch up with annmarie hordern in just a moment. your equity market down six. we declined a little more than .1%. yields unchanged. 1.2667. your fed minutes out a little bit later. tom: global markets late in to what we see in afghanistan -- global markets linked into what we see afghanistan. let's look at one of the opinions. from secretary of state condoleezza right -- condoleezza rice. technically our longest war was not afghanistan, it was korea. 70 years later that we have more than 20,000 american troops in a mission that even the sophisticated south korean army cannot deter the north alone. annmarie hordern has read the document. we are beginning to see nuanced opinion. is anyone defending the president? annmarie: it is hard to find someone defending the president. i have spoken to some congressmen, especially the gentle men from massachusetts, the congressman who served in afghanistan. he said it is time we sho

national security adviser jake sullivan says the u.s. is in talks with the taliban to allow safe passage for americans and afghans who helped america during the long war to leave the country. a lot to discuss with the former defense secretary. good to see you, secretary. i wish it was under better circumstances but i'm glad to have you here and get your perspective and expertise. i just spoke to srosh, a former translator, interpreter for the u.s., came to this country as a refugee six years ago. he has so many faith in this country. he believes america is going to help him because he helped america. should the people still in afghanistan right now that helped us, should they still have faith that we'll keep our word to get folks out? >> well, they certainly have hope. the question is do we have faith in america ourselves? are we willing to live up to what we represent to srosh and to the many thousands and millions of people around the world. earlier in your program you asked what will be the impact, what are people thinking about the u

national security adviser jake sullivan said the u.s. is discussing that timeline with the taliban right now, wouldn't get into the details. that is essentially where it stands now. that is a short time frame to get out. tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of these afghans who have applied for immigrant visas to the united states, have applied for refugee status. you have thousands that have gotten out in the last two weeks. 2,000 of these afghan interpret ergs have gotten out. but that is, frankly, a drop in the bucket in comparison to the large numbers. the bot stop line here is how they're going to get to the airport, even as, the united states says, they're trying to speed up these flights. the biden administration has said that they are relying on a commitment from the taliban to allow for safe passage to the airport. but as you can well see, that is not the case in the area around the airport there. we have to see how the biden administration perhaps changes what they're doing based on what is happening on the ground th

the hack jake sullivan sheepishly admit the taliban has taken control of u.s. weapons. not one less than internalized and potential hostages will remain in fear and they make be forgotten by the administration eager to latch onto the next more favorable news cycle. we will not forget what it is and that's the memo. as i mentioned, white house claims it time for all contingency but about two hours up our president admitted he knew the whole think would get to. watch. >> we've all seen the pictures, hundreds of people packed, afghan battling. >> that was forth from a five physical. >> what did you think when you saw the pictures? >> we have to gain control, we have to move this more quickly. we have to move anyway which we can take control of the airport and we did. >> you don't think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes? >> no, i don't think it could have been handled in a way -- were going to go back in hindsight and look at the idea that somehow there's a way to have gone out out chaos ensuing, i don't know how. kennedy: i love that, even think i

. >> garrett: your counter-part, jake sullivan, says the united states has secured or is looking into alternate methods to move u.s. personnel from where they are to the karzai international airport. what specifically can you tell us about that? >> first, major, we've gotten about 8,000 people out over the last 24 hours. if you go back to july, when this effort really started, we got about 30,000 people out between our military flights and the charters we've organized to get out of kabul and out of afghanistan. but we've seen these wrenching scenesf ped it i iredy volatile situation, and we're very focused on that. first, we're moving people out as quickly as we can from inside the airport and out of afghanistan to alleviate crowding at the airport so we can get people inside. and second, and most importantly, we're in direct contact with american citizens and others, and we're able to guide them the best way to get to the airport, what to do when they get there, and that is the, i think, safest and most affective way, to get people there, get them in, and get them out. that's what we

another thing that jake sullivan, the national security adviser said earlier today was that in, in the us view of us intelligence, what he called a relevant terrorist groups, quote unquote, do not possess the ability to plan advanced attacks outside of afghanistan. so for people wondering exactly what the situation could be after the u. s. is fully gone from afghanistan, speaking presumably of ice ok. and of sullivan says that they do not possess the capabilities, at least at the moment, to plot the long range attacks against other targets such as targets in the united states and sullivan added, that the u. s. will continue to strike at ice. ok. the perpetrators of the attack last thursday, when and if they find them and are able to take them out. ok, thanks for that. rob reynolds in washington. how the u. k has completed its evacuations and is bringing back its truth. this marks the end of nearly 20 years of british military present prominence. the bois johnson has laid out conditions for the taliban, for any future engagement with western nations. we will engage with the taliban, not

. >> national security advisor jake sullivan provided an update on evacuation efforts in afghanistan. announcing more than 37,000 people have been removed from afghanistan in the past week. he spoke to reporters at the white house for about 30 minutes. >> we are pleased to have our turn guest, jake sullivan, who will give brief opening remarks and take some questions. with that i will turn it over. >> good afternoon everyone. i will make some comments, and then i will take your questions. i want to start once again by saluting our troops and civilians at the kabul airport. kabul fell just over one week ago. within 48 hours they secure the airfield. they safely and effectively drawn down our embassy compound and retrograde our embassy personnel. they have now facilitated the evacuation of more than 37,000 people out of the country since august 14. american citizens, third country nationals, our afghan allies, and afghans at risk of persecution or worse. in the last 24 hours alone, 28 u.s. military flights have evacuated approximately 10,400 people from kabul. in addition, 61 coalition

we heard a little bit of the timeline from jake sullivan, but we need to know much more. there were already calls for congressional hearings and investigations. i would hope that would be bipartisan in nature and people would say that we need to have answers. we're going to her for the first time since it's all started playing out in our screen. there went up a press conference at 3:00 this afternoon. we need to hear from them they need to answer tough questions. you have to watch too if these groups are going to start turning on each other. will the pentagon, will the white house point fingers and say we tried to warn them that we tried to tell them. how much more of that are we going to get question work we need answers, transparency, and hopefully starting at 3:00 this afternoon's we would at some. >> harris: i go right back to that young man who stuck in afghanistan and did not make it to the airport yet. he said that he needs help from president biden or whoever is in power. there are some serious doubts right now in the white house is where? >> kayleigh: it is great

i want to play a quick sound bite from jake sullivan earlier. watch this. >> we as a national security team take responsibility for every decision, good decision, every decision that doesn't produce perfect outcomes. >> what do we know about that disconnect in the messaging there? what factored into the administration's decision making here? a couple days ago we heard from secretary of state tony blinken saying this is not a friday to monday situation. we're not going to see a collapse like that. president biden repeatedly saying that this is not going to be a saigon moment. you won't see an evacuation from the roof top of the american embassy there. this is what has played out. and so now there is a disconnect between what they were saying to the public and what was happening behind the scenes. >> absolutely. those are the questions that we and all of the other reporters are continuously asking this administration. because it's confusing at the very least that that is what is happening. right? on sunday while this was happening, while kabul is