address these issues? how do we deal with the taliban over a bigger horizon? you began talking to me about the short-term. job number one. let's deal with the problem on the ground right now. and i want to play for you some sound, from jennifer griffin. she is pressing the pentagon on why it is it seems the british and french are capable to getting their people out listen to. >>this paratroopers are leaving the airport to rescue an evacuate some of their citizens. why isn't the u.s. doing that? >> our main mission tips to be to secure are hk to allow those citizens to come and be processed at the airfield. >> so back to your job number one general keane what do you make of that that the french and british are making grounds or doing work and it seems that we're not yet? >> well, we know from antidotal evidence. most of us who have connections in afghanistan all have people who are connecting to us and asking for assistance. that certainly has happened to