U.S. Embassy Warns Americans Outside Kabul's Airport Gates to "Leave Immediately" Because of Security Concerns

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🗓️ 26 August 2021

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0:00.0	We need a lot more happy endings. Anderson, thank you very much for the reporting.
0:03.2	I'm Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time. You know, we really need to figure out
0:08.1	what we are about in this country. Our government learns there are terror threats at the Kabul
0:13.6	Airport and their reaction is to tell Americans who are desperate and dying to get out to leave.
0:21.5	Are you kidding me? Here is the US government warning issue just now. Because of security
0:26.8	threats outside the gates of Kabul Airport, we're advising US citizens to avoid traveling to the
0:31.6	airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions
0:36.3	from a US government representative to do so. Those who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate,
0:41.2	or North Gate now should leave immediately. Question, why isn't the answer to bring Americans
0:49.8	into the airport to keep them safe? Especially if you can really say that these are Americans,
0:55.5	why are you sending them away? What would you do to people that you care about when you learn
1:01.2	they were threatened? Would you send them away or would you want to keep them close? Bring them
1:06.5	into the airport. Why not? Where's the answer to that question? Look, terrorists are coming for
1:12.9	the people that America is trying to get out right now, not just Taliban hunting women and
1:18.4	friendlies. This threat is the new ISIS, ISIS K, K stands for a province they come from Coruscant
1:26.8	upon the Pakistan border. Remember, a lot of the Taliban, a lot of these bad guys are not even from
1:31.7	Afghanistan. Listen, what does this mean about when America will get the Americans out? Because now
1:39.1	is this threat going to delay? Are we going to go back to this August 31 BS? Is that going to become
1:45.2	a hard out again? Look, that was a media and political party trap. It was a gotcha. What are you going
1:52.2	to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? And the Biden administration did not deal
1:55.8	with it well and they just got on message that they're going to complete the job no matter what.
2:00.2	Will this spook them into having to make a quick exit? They were finally getting that they can't leave
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