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But an enormous piece of property the size of a town. they have a hospital, shops, gyms, hangersf and barracks. as last month bagram had a prison that held thousands of foreignnd fighters including isis and the taliban. of and then all of a sudden for the first time in 20 years, the lighting went out at bagram. locals understood what was going on. without warning, the u.s. military just left. split in the middle of the night and turned off the power as they did. ultimately, the bases new afghan ...

Combined with 34 coalition aircraft, an additional 2800 personnel left kabulfor various an additional 2800 personnel left kabul for various intermediate staging bases. 66 flights left out of kabul yesterday with 6800 evacuees. today i can report an updated total evacuation that is more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. 0f more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. of this total number, approximately 5400 are american citizens. this is an incredible number of p...

Staging bases. 66 flights left out of kabul yesterday in that 24-hour period, with 6,800 evacuees. today i can report an updated total evacuation that is more than 117,000. the vast majority of which are afghans. of this total number, approximately 5,400 are american citizens. this is an incredible number of people who are now safer, thanks to the heroism of the young men and women who are putting their lives on the line each day to evacuate american and vulnerable afghans out of kabul. threats ...

There is the broader question going forward, anderson, of the whole premise of this withdrawal was predicated on the idea that the taliban could assure that afghanistan would never, again, become a safe haven for terrorists. and can the u.s. continue to take the taliban at its word on there -- this front? is the taliban able to successfully quash groups like isis-k, especially when the u.s. has left and doesnt have, as alex mentioned, eyes and ears on the ground to have a better sense of what th...

For folks coming the preparations for folks coming back, _ the preparations for folks coming back, is_ the preparations for folks coming back, is there a total number of people. — back, is there a total number of people, evacuees you have on domestic_ people, evacuees you have on domestic bases here, plus those kind of on _ domestic bases here, plus those kind of on the _ domestic bases here, plus those kind of on the stuff to come back? different_ of on the stuff to come back? different hubs ...

Domestic bases here, plus those kind of on the step to come back? so all the different hubs plus the bases, do you have a total number there? >> i dont have it with me, gordon. i think you heard the general yesterday. we have just under 7,000 siv applicants at u.s. military installations across the country. hes opened up additional installations to try to get us to a capacity of maybe as much as 50,000 if we need it, i think. he gave that number yesterday, and i think -- i dont think that number...

Bidens own intelligence community is saying this, the taliban equals al-quaida. al-quaida is going to come roaring back. they are going to attack the west again. that is absolutely going to happen. we need to have somebody to work with when our future american soldiers have to go back again. the same crew that is around biden was around obama that yanked out of iraq too soon that led to the caliphate and launched attacks around the world. we had bases to go back to. in afghanistan, we have nothi...

There has been activity but not formal u.s. troops leaving our bases right now. we mentioned the 13 we now know some of the u.s. troops killed in the kabul airport bomb, we will read the names because thats important. marine rylee mccollum of wyoming. he had just gotten married and expecting his first child and just three weeks. david lee espinoza marino texas and transferred to kabul one week ago. kareem nikoui died after sending a father to his father in giving them candy. rachel: jared schmit...

A national security crisis and some coming across the border hit the terror watch list, but now we have the cvp saying if their board, a small number of afghan evacuees flagged for concerns at bases around the world and we have cvp agencies like yourself who have experience doing the vetting. do you see that threat highly increase now because of the mass evacuate in afghanistan? >> yeah, because cvp personnel dont know who these people are. theres no u.s. embassy there, theres no consul office t...

Domestic bases here, plus those kind of on the step to come back, so all the different hubs plus the bases, do you have a total number there? >> i dont have it with me, gordon. the general yesterday said weve got just under 7,000 siv applicants at u.s. military installations across the country. hes opened up additional installations to try to get us to a capacity of maybe as much as 50,000 if we need it. he gave that number yesterday and i think -- i dont think that number has changed appreciabl...