They can't hold press conferences right now. They can't.
They know these bombs will literally blow up while they're having them. I'm sure that's part of the point. These guys have got the risk-averse US corpomilitary apparatus over a barrel. The US has no more bargaining chips. There's nothing to do but pray that they let a few more out. I kept having weird visions (no, I don't normally have visions, that's why it's weird) at the start of this of a horrifying purge across the airport as the Taliban took it by corraling people with bombs, then shot everyone left to shoot. At every step, even as some things I've thought would happen have come to pass, I've always hoped that was just something out of an as-yet-unwritten novel. Please don't be real life. Please don't be real life.