jennifer jacobs reports with bloomberg has this tweet just minutes ago.ultiple reports that afghan president has flown out of the country. the taliban spokesperson says they are awaiting a peaceful transfer of power and also happening in the last hour, antony blinken defending president biden's decision to withdraw. >> we are evacuating the embassy, burning documents. this is not just about the overall idea of leaving afghanistan. this is about leaving hastily. how did president baden desk how did president biden get this wrong? >> we were in afghanistan for one purpose. the deal with the folks who attacked us on 9/11. over those 20 years, we brought bin laden to justice. we oppose the threat to united states where the that to the point that it is not capable of conducting it again. on the terms that we went to afghanistan, we succeeded in achieving our objectives. when the president came to office, he had a decision to make. the previous administration negotiated that said our forces would be out of the country on may 1. the idea that the status quo coul

he was asked by our very own jennifer jacobs about afghanistan, but he was at an event with fema talkingut the hurricane and potentially he didn't want to divert them what was going on here at home, making sure that the thousands of people who are evacuating and losing their homes and they are dealing with a surge of cases in their hospitals, the situation could become dire. maybe he didn't want to distract from that to talk about afghanistan but there is a lot of criticism about this moment from the president on sunday because obviously a lot of hearts and minds are about what's going on in kabul. taylor: when did we get more information on the names of who was targeted and the drone attack? annmarie: we are waiting for when the pentagon could potentially brief today. kirby could give us an update, but what we know from afghan reports is that there were civilians who were struck, including children. casualties, injured fatalities, we just don't know yet and the pentagon has yet to confirm but those are the reports coming out of afghanistan and i would imagine at some point today we get

jennifer jacobs reports with bloomberg has this tweet just minutes ago.reports that afghan president has flown out of the country. the taliban spokesperson says they are awaiting a peaceful transfer of power and also happening in the last hour, antony blinken defending president biden's decision to withdraw. >> we are evacuating the embassy, burning documents. this is not just about the overall idea of leaving afghanistan. this is about leaving hastily. how did president baden desk how did president biden get this wrong? >> we were in afghanistan for one purpose. the deal with the folks who attacked us on 9/11. over those 20 years, we brought bin laden to justice. we oppose the threat to united states where the that to the point that it is not capable of conducting it again. on the terms that we went to afghanistan, we succeeded in achieving our objectives. when the president came to office, he had a decision to make. the previous administration negotiated that said our forces would be out of the country on may 1. the idea that the status quo could have b