Our thanks, Coupe. I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.

It's good to be back.

Some of you reached out about my brother's situation

and I do have a note on that.

But first tonight, I want us to deal with the crisis

that is coming at all of us.

This is Afghanistan and it is a nightmare.

Innocent masses begging America not to leave them

to vicious extremism.

But that is what is happening.

This picture is also making the rounds.

Proof of America's saving hundreds on a USC-17 cargo plane.

But be clear, 640 men, women and children

make for a good photograph.

But this is not a good reality.

This is a drop of humanity compared to the thousands,

tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands,

who will now be subjected to a truly horrible fate.

People they are so scared, they're willing to do this.

So desperate, they would rather risk death

holding on to an American plane

than face the certainty of oppression on the ground.

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