Evening Edition: Finger Pointing Over the Afghanistan Crisis

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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The United States Air Force has evacuated two thousand people from Afghanistan in the past twenty four hours but that is far less than the goal of five to nine a day the Pentagon said they had set. And now, FOX News has learned the State Department is looking into non-military ways of extracting people without deploying U-S troops into the city of Kabul. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks to FOX's Pentagon Correspondent Lucas Tomlinson about the current situation on the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	I'm Kat Tymph. I'm Bill Hammer. I'm Harris Faulkner and this is the Fox News rundown
0:39.0	Thursday August 19th 2021 I'm Trey Yinced. The situation on the ground in Afghanistan is simply not matching
0:46.2	up to what White House officials in Washington are describing.
0:49.3	They're very glaring admission and very frank admissions in the defense secretary when he said
0:55.1	that US military can't go out and rescue large numbers of Americans trapped in
1:00.8	downtown Kabul. This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.
1:08.6	While there are ongoing evacuations from inside the Kabul airport,
1:12.4	there continue to be scenes of chaos outside.
1:15.0	Heart-wrenching videos show people handing their children over walls and barbed wire,
1:20.0	desperate to get them to safety.
1:21.0	A group of Afghan refugees who arrived in Germany
1:24.0	described what it was like getting to the airport with Taliban fighters hitting people
1:28.0	with sticks and firing rifles. NATO officials say 12 people have been
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