Up to 1,500 Americans believed to be in Afghanistan amid turmoil

The U.S. evacuated another 19,000 people from Afghanistan between Tuesday and Wednesday, but as many as 1,500 American citizens are believed to be still in the country. CBS News congressional correspondent Kris Van Cleave, The Washington Post's deputy Washington editor Natalie Jennings, and The Washington Examiner's political and investigative reporter Sarah Westwood join CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with more on mixed messaging from the White House, and the reaction on Capitol Hill to a pair of congressmen who secretly traveled to Kabul.

[morgansheric]

Color me stupid but why are so many Americans in Afghanistan at all? What were these people thinking as the time drew close to leaving?? I would been gone 2 months ago.

[michaelschaefer]

Another report said thousands won't get out at this rate.

[gwennelson]

Oh Turmoil is what CBS calls Get rid of Biden

[daftwod]

1500 left behind but tens of thousands of friendly new faces to replace them.

[ridealong]

I hope some of these “American allies” boarding the planes are not connected to ISIS

[DavidJ]

Getting out of Afghanistan was never going to be smooth or pretty. But with all things considered, President Biden has done a pretty good job with horrible deal that Trump made.

[journeymansmitty]

From the very start this was a very messed up situation but America knows who the bad guys are they need to stop talking about it and solve the situation🤔

[MoreThanYouTimesTwo]

Told to leave in January, February, March, April, May, June, July,

[Reina.Nijinsky]

Time for Afghanistan to take responsibility for their own nation & the well-being of its ppl? no more excuses & no more babysitting. the entire country being evacuated? Why don’t Muslim countries step up to take in the tens of thousands of refugees? 🤷🏻‍♀️ @Afghanistan #Afghanistan

[blackmagic]

These people chose to be there. They chose to stay when they were told to leave months ago. I'm not saying we shouldn't get them out but stop acting like they are victims. I don't feel a bit sorry for them.

[comeandtakeit]

Time for slo joe to go on another vacation.

[quickdraw]

We could of just evacuated the country to America 20 yrs ago and not of spent so much money and time there.

[jordancarpenter]

Biden looks like julio iglesias, but Iglesias with his Mediterranean tan !

[CapAnson]

Actual Americans or Afghans who got citizenship through some technicality?

[spearageddon]

So all of a sudden they have a headcount of Americans? 🤔

[charlesbacalso]

Send afghan refugees to Merkel. German tax payers will shoulder all their expenses.

[obotish]

empty plane when they left., so you know they did not take any seats or give

[N.A]

I saw on some article yesterday that they had won the Yearly Visa Lottery that only 55k win. It’s an effort to promote diversity in the U.S. well I’m starting to see a lot here in Dallas since the Trump Administration so 👍🏽😁 Mission Accomplished

[Mrdbirk]

Think you forgot to add a 0 to that 1, 500🙄

[michellegeorge]

I think this pandemic has taught people the importance of multiple streams of income, unfortunately having a job doesn't mean security rather having different investments is the real deal.