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A specific purpose. thats a big difference than saying youre deploying for eight, nine, 12 months forces to stabilize and security afghanistan which we have been doing for the last 20 years. this is a narrowly defined mission. >> once this very narrowly defined mission is over, there are only going to be 650 troops to protect the airport and embassy staff? >> once this mission is over -- i wont get into specific numbers here -- but we anticipate having less than 1,000 u.s. troops on the ground t...

Expected gives me by taliban forces have made it necessary to speed up plans for removing dramatic staff. in the last human minutes the pentagon spokesman gave this assessment of the situation a news conference. the president has ordered the evacuation of personnel and acceleration of the evacuation of afghan special immigrant visa applicants from the country. to applicants from the country. trr enable the safe quarterly reduction, the secretary of defence has directed the department to position...

Led to this, what changed to the last 24-48 hours thats led to an incredibly acceleration to get out? >> i think we laid out pretty clearly that three infantry battalions on the way now and a brigade combat team as a reserve. theres no plans for additional forces. i can only say what i said before to david. there wasnt one precipitating event in the last couple of days that led the president and the secretary to make this decision. its a confluence of events. as ive been saying now for several w...

Hours that led to an incredible acceleration of the plans to get out? ., , , ., ., . out? your first question, no. we laid out pretty — out? your first question, no. we laid out pretty clearly _ out? your first question, no. we laid out pretty clearly three - laid out pretty clearly three infantry battalions on the way now and a combat team being brought over into the region as a reserve. they are no plans right now for additionalforces. and i can only say what i said before to david. there wa...

This massive acceleration that nobody anticipated in terms of how quickly afghanistan has fallen to the taliban. kandahar is a question mark. kabul is still being held. if you can stay with us. lucas tomlinson is with us. he was just in the room. he was pressing john kirby on a number of issues including is this a combat mission? what do you do when you get these folks out if the airport, if the designated 600 or so people to keep the airport security is not enough? how much backup will you prov...

To be an acceleration of getting civilians out? >> to your first question, no. i think we laid out clearly three infantry battalions on the way now and a brigade combat team being brought over into the region as a reserve. so theres no plans right now for additional forces. i can only the say what i said before to david. there was one precipitating event in the last couple days that led the president and the secretary to make this decision. its a confluence of events. as i have been saying for n...

Austin, san antonio, county and school board officials there in all those major cities bucking the order that was issued by the governor just a few weeks ago saying that mask mandates would not be allowed. theyve had a couple of legal victories in the last 24 hours where dallas and san antonio have requested a temporary restraining order against the governors orders so that they could implement mask mandates. but hospital officials say the time for action is an urgent situation right now as hosp...

Worse. tonight, the u.s. passed 36 million recorded cases of covid. thats from the start of the pandemic. but just to -- i think this is helpful, just to get a look at how fast the rate of infection is increasing right now. were at 36 million cases, as of tonight. look at the last few-million cases. we hit 33 million, in mid-may. to get the next-million cases, it took 64 days. but then, the next-million cases, after that, took just 16 days. that brought us to august 1st. and here we are, just ei...

This is ft. pane, alabama. icu beds are full. i coronavirus is going to get worse.re tonight, the u.s. passed 36 million recorded cases of covid. thats from the start of the pandemic.here but just to -- i think this is helpful just to get a look at how fast the rate of infection is increasing right now. were at 36 million cases, as of tonight. look at the last few million cases. we hit 33 million in mid-may. to get the next million cases, it took 64 days. but then the next million cases after th...

It took 64 days. but then the next million cases after that, took just 16 days. that brought us to august 1st. and here we are, just eight days after that with another million cases. that escalation, that acceleration, tells you how badly things are getting worse right now. just eight days to required 1 million cases. thats eight times faster than what we were experiencing, just this spring. i would like some expert help and understanding this. in understanding the severity of what were looking ...