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i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. a race against time. six days left, up to 1500 americans are still on the ground in afghanistan according to the secretary of state tony blinken. as administration offered for the first time any concrete numbers of americans left to evacuate, blinken said the u.s. does not know if all of them are looking to leave or are even still in afghanistan. >> these are dynamic calculations that we are working hour by hour to refine for accuracy. >> blinken also saying at least 4500 americans have been evacuated so far. more than 500 in the last day alone. but those evacuations in kabul growing more dangerous by the day as cnn learns an isis affiliate wants to create mayhem at the airport and planning to carry out multiple terror attacks there. that's according to a u.s. defense official who also tells

our jim sciutto the concerns increase because of quote a very specific threat stream from isis-k. adding to those concerns, members of isis-k escaped two prisons in kabul with one saying as many as several hundred members of the group may have escaped and you only need to listen to the words of president biden and top advisors to see how serious they believe this isis threat is. >> these are credible threats. >> we're operating in a hostile environment in a city and country controlled by the taliban with the very real possibility of an isis-k attack. >> every day we're on the ground is another day we know that isis-k is seeking to target the airport. >> kaitlan collins is "outfront" at the white house for us. as the president said they are going to be meeting their deadline, you have new reporting on contingency plans. >> reporter: yeah, the president was briefed in vent days.

those are the plans that he instructed the pentagon and state department to draw up in case they decided they could not meet this deadline by next tuesday to remove all u.s. troops from afghanistan and essentially, what those plans looked at without the pentagon offering specifics was how many people would they need to stay, how many u.s. troops would they need to stay on the ground for how long and what would the goal of that mission be because of course, they don't want that extension to be pointless, to not have an end and have a pretty tight goal why they are extending it past the deadline. president biden decided to stick with the august 31st deadline. they are not planning on extending it now and kate, we know what that means is that in the comes days, these evacuations happening on the mass scale we've seen over the last several days judging by these updates from the white house are also going to come to an end because at a time they have to provide for time for the troops on the ground, thousands of them right now to draw down their forces, their weaponry, their machinery and get the resources out of there before this deadline is up.

kate, it's raising a lot of questions what will happen over the next few days because as secretary blinken said today, there are hundreds of americans there. we know there are still tens of thousands of afghans that qualify for these visa potentially who are also still on the ground waiting to be evacuated and so what secretary blinken said today is they have gotten private commee -- commitment from the taliban of third party nationals and these afghan allies who of course are endangered by the taliban to get to the airport once the 31st has passed, but that is raising a lot of questions because that is dependent on the taliban and once the 31st passed and we reached next tuesday, the pentagon confirmed the u.s. government won't be in control of the airport in kabul. what happens to it is largely going to be up to the taliban. >> absolutely. good to see you, thank you. >> meanwhile, many afghan allies of the united states are now coming to grips with the reality they may not get out in time.

sam kylie is "outfront". >> reporter: in the closing moments of america's longest war, a desperate legacy. a day after the taliban announced that they would stop afghans getting into kabul airport, these are the scenes at its walls. they wade through sewage in breathtaking heat waving their documents, desperate for escape. beyond these barriers, plane after plane carrying thousands to freedom. but here there is fast fading hope that they will get to safety before america and allies leave in a few days time. the process taking an added urgency with what u.s. intelligence have described as a very specific threat against crowds gathering outside the airport. we've also had a number of reports of afghans stuck in pockets around the town desperately sending out signals to get out, particularly people working with the united states. we've heard from one group whose

identity we're keeping secret. they fear they will not survive the comes days if they can't get to this airport. 19,000 people have been evacuated in the last 24 hours. though with the taliban blocking refugees from getting to the airport, the numbers here are down. there will be a day maybe two before the military effort will have to focus on its own withdrawal. any detailed threats from isis-k who sources tell cnn have the capacity and plans to commit atrocities against desperate afghan crowds. such fears on those who are boarding. on the plane, relief. a u.s. citizen so with his family of six, he was able to make it through the taliban blocks. >> nobody want to leave easily but there are a lot of challenging around. >> reporter: landing a muted you. they are safe but a long journey

into the unknown. sam kylie, cnn, kabul international airport. >> thank you for your fantastic reporting. with me now the former nato supreme commander of europe and julia, former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security under president obama. julia, this is the tight rope that the administration has created for themselves right now. they have six days and growing warnings about isis looking to using to evacuate. every evacuation is going to be dangerous. that's the way it is in a conflict zone. how much more dangerous is it getting every day they tick closer to the pronounced deadline? >> it's getting more dangerous because of the isis-k threat and inability to control the area surrounding the airport. so i want to make clear here that the danger would exist whatever the deadline was. and having no deadline was not possible given that the taliban

is now in charge of afghanistan. so i'm of the school now that keeping the deadline makes a lot of sense because it does not force the taliban's hand at this stage, it lets them -- why would we get into a fight with them publicly at this stage? we have a common interest, which is to minimize the isis-k threat, get people out, that's clearly happening, not as many as we wish and then and do that as safely as possible over the next week and then deal with what evacuations look like, this contingency planning after the 31st. those clambering for the president to push a deadline and get the taliban to agree, the taliban is not going to agree. they need to show they're in control of a government and war they won and so i think that this in a weird way, this weird horrible awful heart wrenching deadline is in someways giving a little time to get as many people out and then on the other side see what evacuations look

like. that is clearly the strategy laid out by administration and the fact the taliban is not denying it makes me feel a little bit better at this stage. >> that is interesting. general clark, the state department as we've reported said today they are up to -- there are up to 1500 u.s. citizens left in the country. that does not include u.s. legal residents, green card holders and they don't have a number specifically how many special visa applicants are still out there. if you don't know how many people have to get out in six days, how do you get out in six days? >> well, that's been the problem all along. there is never a requirement when you go into a country to register with the u.s. em bye s -- embassy. you have people nobody knows about and some of them are probably waiting their chance now. they're asking can i get to the airport? should i wait until the last minute? what about the taliban? maybe they have families. maybe they have connections with afghan special forces or something that puts them at

special danger. so there is a lot of uncertainty here and the state department obviously, is doing what it can but i think we have to face the fact, kate, that we're not going to be assured that we're going to get everybody out. i mean, that's just the reality of it. there will be people who didn't make it i suspect. >> and juliette, exactly to general clark's point, there is a senior administration official put it to cnn this way that many afghan allies the u.s. aimed to help will be left behind. it's a reality they say quote that would be true whenever we evacuated and whenever the taliban tooko over in matter when. is that the harsh reality people need to face? >> yes, i think one of the reasons for the concern and emotion that's animating a lot of this, which i think is appropriate is the realization that we're at the sort of risk

minimumization stage of this. nobody anticipated we would lose control of the capital that quickly. the rise of isis-k this quickly and the fact we're just hitting the end of the runway. that being said, so that is why we're here. how fast can you get as many people out as possible. worry about the paperwork later. worry about the conditions that they're living in later and worry about that later and that has to be the strategy. it is less bad is our standard now. good is not our standard. that is the nature of having committed our resources for 20 years and having the country fall that quickly and it's just horrifying but it's just the reality. >> yeah, and general clark, we know that president biden has been briefed on contingency plans that he asked for in case they don't make the august 31st deadline or circumstances change. today we heard this from

secretary blinken. let me play it. >> let me be christian clear about this. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizen whose decide they want to leave to do so along with the many afghans who have stood by us over these many years and want to leave and have been unable to do so. >> so the secretary says they're developing plans and for post august 31st, will do everything in their power how their put it to help afghans get out after august 31st but what can the u.s. do after the military leaves? is that an empty promise? >> i don't think so. what we do need to do is go to the u.n. we're going to be facing an urgent humanitarian problem in afghanistan not just the people that want to leave but there is a drought, there is no money. there are going to be food shortages. there are funds tied up. will we release those funds. what will they be used for? happened to the government?

this is not the same society the u.s. came to 20 years ago. this is a society that has six to 8 million people in urban centers. they're not farmers anymore. they have got to have a going, fu functional economy. how much room do they have? a week, three weeks, two weeks? what's the impact of the drought? i read 40% of the wheat crop is lost so not only do we have to worry about the people that want to come out, we have to address this larger humanitarian issue. it's what the u.n. should be doing and i hope administration among their many contingency plans will go to the united nations and saying set this up, get a u.n. security counsel resolution. do it under chapter 7. maybe nato, maybe the united states could be lead nation. maybe someone else will be. but we've got two to 3 million people in afghanistan who want to get out. that's the best estimate.

plus you have more people there who are going to be in huge distress over the next three to four months so it's more than just holding the airport open. >> what a mess. sorry for saying that. it's true. general, thank you. juliette, thank you, as well. "outfront" next, the january 6th committee requesting a massive number of documents related to donald trump plus the state of nebraska trying to hire nurses, sending out this flier reportedly approved by the governor himself highlighting covid vaccines not required. and why governor gavin newsom is in real danger of being recalled. >> very heavily towards the recall. i'm disappointed in the democratic party in general. welcome back to milkshake mustaches, high fives and high dives. to 3-on 3s... 2-on-2s... and 1-on-1s. at aspen dental,

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>> reporter: the committee's chairman saying this will be a sprawling probe. >> it's several hundred people that make up the list of individuals we plan to contact. >> reporter: the initial wave of requests sent to eight government agencies including the department of justice, the fbi and the national archives. the archives could be key since it has legal custody of all the presidential roecords from donad trump's time in office. the committee sent that agency 12 pages of demands including for white house records relating to trump's family like the call logs and schedules from melania trump, jared kushner and his three eldest children. they are seeking communications from key white house staffers like mark meadows who pushed the justice department to investigate baseless claims of fraud already released documents show and white house counsel who cnn reported pushed back and the committee wants the archives to

handover evidence of communications involving trump lawyers sydney powell and rudy gh giuliani who per sissisted the claims. >> i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. >> reporter: trump's pressure campaign on georgia officials to overturn the results also a target of the massive records request. but all the white house requests will be subject to executive privilege if the current president chooses to assert it and if biden chooses not to, trump could try to challenge it and wage a long ranging legal fight. the committee's char man has said the panel plans to send notices to various communications companies, requesting that they preserve phone records of several people including members of congress. >> you know, telephone companies are the ones that pretty much

know. the social media platforms, those kind of things. we'll do what is required to get the information. >> reporter: and the select committee wants to know who stood up to trump. they've asked for a paper trail about whether any defied any orders from the president, kate and the committee is on a very tight and ambitious deadline. they asked for this information to be handed over in the next two weeks but unclear how much of a fight they might face. kate? >> thank you for that. i want to bring in democratic congressman of california who is a member of the select committee investigating january 6th. congressman, thank you for being here. why are you-all casting as much a wide net with this request? >> this is just the beginning. we are trying to find out what happened leading up to january 6th, the various elements, the reasoning, who instigated it,

why they instigated it and the like. we want to find out every element of it and so we've made this request and this is, as i said, just the beginning. there are many other requests for documents that we will be making. some of these requests were made to these agencies by other committees in congress earlier and they have not been responded to. so we need the information now and we've made that clear to the various federal agencies. >> so we're casting a wide net and it's going to be even wider since this is just the beginning. as part of this, jessica laid it out very well in her piece but as part of this, the committee is demanding all communication related to challenging the election results from trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani, sydney powell, jenna ellis and all three of them, everyone will remember were front and center pushing donald trump's election lie and in one case on the very

day of the insurrection, here is a reminder. >> let's have trial by combat. >> the entire election, frankly, in all the swing states should be overturned and the legislatures should make sure that the electors are selected for trump. >> we have koconstitutional provisions that will step in when we show the corruption and challenged and overturned votes that are absolutely corrupt. >> of course, not true. what are you looking for in the communications of these lawyers? >> well, we don't know what we're going to find out, but let's just say this. it is feasible for losing candidate who has evidence to go to court and contest various elements of an election. the former president did that and he lost.

that's quite different than a mob coming to stop the certification of the election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power that our constitution provides for. the question is what happened beyond what is permitted, which is to, you know, go through the judicial process and get an outcome that was inpermissible and how did that connect, if at all, to the riot on january 6th? >> you're also asking for communications on january 6th between the white house and any members of congress or congressional staff. and look, we know some members like jim jordan and kevin mccarthy, they have spoken publicly about speaking with the president in the white house on that day but do you have other specific names in mind? >> i'm not going to mention the names because this is not an accusation. this is an investigation.

there had been public reports of various members allegedly applauding to do various things. we don't know if that's true. but we need to find out and so that's why we're asking for evidence. this is not going to be an investigation that is rooted in speculation. it's going to be rooted in the facts. we'll follow the facts wherever they lead us and then hopefully we will find a complete picture for the american people. >> one element of this records' request that i found head sketching is that the committee is asking for documents pertaining to and the quote is the mental stability of trump or quote his fitness for office in the days after the insurrection. why? >> well, i don't want to get into what we might find but obviously, what other officials

were contemplating or discussing relative to the president could be irrelevant to understanding the entire situation. so as you said at the outset this is a very wide ranging request, but we do have, as i say, a number of other request we'll be making in the days to come and the committee has worked very hard and i will say together in a very collaborative way with our staff to try to have a solid beginning to this investigation and we think this is it. >> congresswoman, thanks so much for your time. >> you bet. we have breaking news we

need to get to. u.s. embassy warning americans at specific gates at the kabul airport to leave immediately. we'll have a live report on that coming up. plus, one state appealing to vaccine skeptics recruiting nurses with flyers bragging about novak vaccine mandates.

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now to the covid crisis. the state of nebraska seizing on vaccine skepticism among front line health care workers. registered nurses across the state receiving emails and postcards like this advertising nursing jobs and highlighting, as you see there, that covid vaccines are not required. that message reportedly approved by republican governor pete ricketts. abby kline that received an email and postcard with that. the ads also say, let me make sure i have it right. while encouraged state teammates are not required to have covid-19 vaccines, this is highlighted throughout these advert advertisements. you're vaccinated. what did you think when you got this? >> yeah, you know, i thought it

was just in really poor taste. recently, the major metropolitan health care organizations have come out. they're all requiring covid vaccinations for employees and the timing of these -- this recruitment campaign was pretty suspect given that every major employer in the state of nebraska for health care was going to be requiring the covid vaccine. and i felt like it was just, you know, it was really in poor taste and not what our state should be advocating for. >> yeah, i'm looking at this and wondering is this dangerous, dumb, mean or all of the above because what they're doing effectively is recruiting unvaccinated health care workers to stick them right in front of the vulnerable patients. >> yeah, and i think that's the biggest point here that these jobs are with patients who are already vulnerable and already don't have other options for

health care. so we're thinking, you know, individuals with developmental disabilities or veterans, we don't want to put vaccinated people in front of the super vulnerable oflpopulations. >> we reached out to the republican governor of nebraska and his office confirmed the mailers came from them and here is how a spokesman is defending the ads telling our team this. there is a nurse shortage across the state and mandates will make it worse. that is a big safe day concern. the people in the states care will be more safe by having more nurses on our team. as a nurse yourself, i don't know, is that how you think the governor should be addressing a work force shortage? how does it make you feel? >> you know, i don't think it's the right way to look at a work force shortage. there is a variety of factors

that caused this shortage and i think boiling it down to just vaccine mandates is not appropriate frankly before the covid-19 pap ndemic, we were facing a nursing shortage in the state of nebraska. i really do think boiling it down to the vaccine mandate is a, incorrect but it's also not helping, you know, our shortage because when we have unvaccinated individuals that are at a higher likelihood of contracting covid-19, they, you know, will eventually be out of the work force and that we're seeing here. >> why do you think we're seeing so much skepticism among health care workers. they clearly believe in science because they work in the field and also witnessing this pandemic firsthand. >> yeah, you know, i think it's really complex.

i think there are people who still don't -- didn't feel comfortable prior to the fda giving full authorization for the vaccine, but i also think, you know, some people just felt like they were young and healthy and, you know, i have seen a lot of people change their minds and change their attitudes towards covid-19 vaccination with how many young people are going into our hospital systems right now. >> yeah. that is -- seems to be when you see basically a mirror image of yourself sitting in icu, that can have an impact. abby, thank you very much for coming on. next, we'll get to the breaking news we're getting into cnn. the u.s. embassy telling americans at certain gates of the kabul airport to leave immediately. we'll tell you what we know and what we're learning after the break. >> plus, he's a former nfl star who has trump's backing. >> i'm a kid from a small town in georgia whose lived the

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breaking news, warning americans citizens to quote leave immediately. kaitlan collins is "outfront". what else can you tell us? >> reporter: this alert is because of security threats outside of the airport. that's one airport we've seen at the center of this coverage and now in bold letters in this statement they are saying u.s. citizens at the east gate or abby gate should leave immediately and instruct them further on the actions they should take. they're saying those citizens who should be at the airport right now are only those who have gotten specific instructions from a government representative to be there and this comes as there is a bitter concern about potential mayhem ha happening outside the airport. we don't know if this is because many specific threat but generally these are the threats

we have. today one concern that administration has is they are seeking to cause mayhem at the airport and potentially intelligence streams showing they had intelligence and capability to potentially do so. this is even something president biden sited this week when he was talking about why he is going or is set on making that august 31st deadline as he said he knows that groups like isis-k and other organizations are seeking to potentially target this airport and the crowds outside of it. so now, this new i lalert is telling americans at these three gates, the biggest that we've seen on the ground like clarisa and sam kylie talking about the most popular and crowded gates telling them to leave immediately. >> much more to come. thank you for the update. we'll stay close to this breaking news and gave you updates as we get them. let's turn to the recall fight in california. could the democratic governor of a deep blue state like

california be in danger of losing his job in three weeks? kyung lah is "outfront" with g gavi ga gavin new some's fight to keep his job. >> reporter: how are you register snd. >> lifelong democrat. >> reporter: you'd think rejecting the recall of gavin newsom would be a no brainer for these three los angeles voters but it's not. >> i have to say, i'm really leaning very heavily towards the recall. >> reporter: to recalling the governor. >> yeah. i'm disappointed in the democratic party in general. >> reporter: disappointed with the party in control with a super majority of california state government. while problems grow. wildfires. drought. crime. cost of living. but the worst for them, homelessness. which has expanded through the pandemic now in neighborhoods across middle class los angeles including their own. >> let me work. let me pay my taxes but proi

vehic -- provide safety and not be a accosted by two homeless people in 15 minutes. >> reporter: this is governor newso m's fault? >> he's the leader. everything starts from the top. and it goes down. >> god bless you and the best is yet to come. >> reporter: these women were part of the more than 60% of voters who resoundingly elected newsom in 2018. >> when he was running, there was nobody else in the world that would have been better and instead, it's become politics. >> reporter: after an exhausting year of crisis, the once popular governor fights for his job. his battle cry. >> vote no on this republican backed recall. >> reporter: blaming republicans. >> everybody backing trump and republican party sees an opportunity. >> reporter: and reminding democrats they out number republicans 2-1 in the state. >> we turn on our base, we'll win.

unquestionably. it's not a persuasion campaign. people are locked in. >> reporter: but all politics is local says democratic strategists michael who warns there are trouble signs for his party. do you think they're nervous based on what your seeing? >> i'm nervous so they are probably 100 times more nervous. homelessness, i've never seen an issue so potent. it's making progressive voters upset. >> reporter: they are hammering on homelessness and cost of living. >> now we have a homeless problem, are you kidding me? >> reporter: how will it make you feel if a republican is elected? >> sick. >> reporter: unwilling to vote for a republican, but willing to risk sending a message to their party. do you feel that gavin newsom is listening to you? [ laughter ] >> that's a good question.

>> reporter: well, that window to make a decision on whether or not to recall the governor, that window is closing. voting has already started the election is underway pop lus county here in california, you can see more than 400 of these ballot drop boxes there all over the county for people to drop off ballots. we've seen people dropping them off since these ballot boxes. they tell us they will probably wait until the last couple days or maybe not send the ballots in at all. kate? >> really. wow, great to see you, thanks so much. >> "outfront" now is a political correspondent for news california and co-host of the political breakdown podcast. less than three weeks out to this recall election, how much danger do you think this recall

is for governor newsom? what are you hearing? >> similar to what we heard in that piece, kate. democrats are nervous. look, they have the numbers on their side but i think they've been pretty checked out in this state since trump left office quite frankly and so what we're seeing is really this effort, you know, to motivate the base, to speak to those issues, to really scare democrats and independents who may not like the candidates they see on the republican side. i think they've stepped it up in ven recent days and weeks. the most recent polling came out a month ago and we've seen a real effort to get the ground game going. there was a lot of critiques newsom and his teamime on mediad tv ads. the team is working with groups that, that helped get out the vote in previous presidential primaries and how successful bernie

sanders won the state. they are doing the ground game. if they can keep it up and get people excited, it's theirs to lose, basically. >> can they keep it up? the republican candidate getting the most attention is larry elder and a long time for everyone out there that doesn't know, long-time conservative talk radio host from l.a. has this shock jock sketchy past you can follow. politico reported his fiancee says he waved a gun at her and she was so scared she locked herself in a bedroom. he denies the allegations. it goes on. other republicans are accusing him of not only dodging debates but say he should drop out. how did he rise to the four dozen challengers? >> 46 people on the ballot. look, he has name idea in los angeles, which is the biggest county here. he's been on the air for two and a half decades on and off. he's got a loyal following.

we've seen that people i think who maybe say outrageous things have wridden that into the whit house. what you see here is about name i.d. and you remember ins. you don't need a majority to win but plurality and he's more well-known than most other candidates and quite frankly, he's more exciting if you're appalled by what he's saying, he's saying things people are listening to. >> the system is wild, right? you need a majority to not be recalled but you only need a plurality then if you're recalled, which could be like tiny and the person could still win the governorship. good to see you. thank you very much. "outfront" next, georgia football hero and hershall walker running for senate but some worry about allegations like this from walker's wife. >> he had a gun to my temple and said he's going to blow my brains out.

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do you remember and we'll show you, this album cover when there were actual album covers? it's nirvana's iconic never mind, grudge band classic. the naked baby featured front and center now an adult is suing the band and its members. take note of the money on the fishhook which i'll get to in a second. spencer elden said the artwork is child pornography. his federal lawsuit obtained by cnn claims he's suffered lifelong damages from that experience. the now 30-year-old wants $150,000 from each of the many defendants including curt cobane's widow courtney love who's the swexecutor of cobane'

estate. the suit alleges elden was sexualized because the dollar bill used in the cover artwork made the baby look like a sex worker. thanks for joining me. anderson cooper 360 starts right now. good evening. even as we're digesting the news tonight the more than 82,000 people have now been airlifted out of afghanistan, which is however you look at it a remarkable number. we're being reminded of how dangerous it is and how difficult things could turn. right now as we speak americans waiting to get into the airport in kabul and eventually onto flights out of afghanistan are being told to leave the airport area for their own safety. the u.s. embassy now based at the airport issued the warning shortly after airtime advising americans who still have yet to actually enter the airport who might be outside among the crowds outside the airport's east, north and abbey gates to, quote, leave immediately. the embassy further cautions