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And biodata has been run through the established databases. >> second, you also mentioned some of the medical support the military is providing including vaccinations. does that include covid vaccines at the bases? are those mandatory or optional? >> the vaccines are offered to them. theyre offered at dulles. we offer them as well as the task force locations. they are not mandatory. we see many are taking the vaccine if theyve not already had it. >> on the paperwork that they are getting assista...

Locations. i will tell you what were seeing is of those that do arrive at dulles, about 40% or so have been coming to us and other status like having a green card where they can move on from dulles. >> my follow up is, can you give us an assistment of the security risks as well as the covid risks as youre doing and everyone is doing these screenings what security risks are you see something are you seeing a number of people showing up on lists and what about covid? how is that testing going and ...

When you consider both, because they were taken over by the taliban and emptied, but i could not give you a precise figure. we were turning things over to afghan national security forces. they turned over the responsibilities and they did have responsibility prisons and the bases for which they were located. and as the taliban advanced we didnt see the level of resistance to hold that military. unfortunately they were bases they hold. but all of those were turned over. >> general, yesterday they...

Separate locations. what were sees of those that arrive at dulles, about 40% or so have been coming to us. >> you give us an assessment of the security risks as well as the covid risks. as youre doing and every one is doing these screenings, what security risks are you seeing? are you seeing a number of people showing up on lists and then what about covid? how is that testing going and what are the threats that the bases for covid? >> as i said in my opening comments, were doing biometric testin...

Databases. >> and second, you also mentioned some of the medical support that the military is providing, including vaccinations. does that include covid vaccines at the bases? are those mandatory or optional? >> the -- the vaccines are offered to them. theyre offered at dulles. we offer em as well as the task force locations. they are not mandatory. we see many of them are taking the vaccine if theyve not already had it. >> on the paperwork thats -- that -- that they are getting assistance for t...

Biographical data and biometric data has been run through the established databases. >> second, you mentioned some of the medical support that the military is providing including vaccinations. does that include covid vaccines at the bases? are they mandatory or optional? >> the vaccines are offered to them at dulles. we offer them as well as a task force locations. theyre not mandatory. many are takening the vaccine. >> on the paperwork that theyre getting assistance for siv paperwork, is there ...

Single country surrounding afghanistan has agreed to house u.s. troops, bases or to allow us to strike at terrorists back inside of afghanistan and not one. so we have nothing in the region now. we are blind. and our capability is greatly diminished and that leaves the homeland greatly at risk. >> look, the administration has been clear, they dont think that this attack is a justification for keeping troops in country. all right. thats just to be clear. that is where they are on that. i do want ...

Saved countless lives by their own work there and giving up their own lives to protect others. its a good question. we have two parts here. the first paramount is getting people out and it was striking that despite yesterdays terror attack the evacuation flights are still continuing. there are thousands airlifted out yesterday, more today. that is going to continue up until the august 31st deadline or just about before because there will be need for the military itself to get out. resettlement i...

How were able to do operations in syria, whats the extra challenge in afghanistan? >> the biggest challenge is that it is over the horizon issue where we need to have bases near by that give us the opportunity to be able to deploy into afghanistan and thats not easy. were having a hard time finding bases in which to operate. and to be able to go in and hit a target you need good intelligence on the ground. we had great intelligence. we were working with the afghans. we had good military intellig...

Through our intermediate staging bases and safe havens all the way to the united states in the coming days and weeks. on that topic a quick update on the military installations in our safe havens and staging bases in centcom and u com helping transition all these flights. centcom locations receive, process and transfer passengers to follow-on locations in europe and the united states. today u com will receive 19 flights and approximately 5,000 passengers in germany, italy and spain, including th...