US Says Doing "Everything In Power" To Start Charter Flights From Afghan

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Taliban was holding up flights because some passengers lack documentation.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed Wednesday to press the Taliban to start charter flights out of Afghanistan after criticism the administration was not doing enough to allow evacuations. "Let me be very clear -- those flights need to be able to leave," Blinken told reporters on a visit to Germany. "We are working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground," Blinken said. Blinken said that the Taliban were preventing flights from leaving because of some passengers lack travel documents.