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Brian: about a thousand americans about behind according to the state department like the ballpark individuals we used to look at them as people now we have rough numbers lets say he says two thirds expressed interest, isnt that nice he also goes out of his way to put together a false choice surge troops or get out, i dont think we should surge troops after 20 years that is not the choice you hold the presence and wait for the fighting season to be over and understand you have for cia bases and ...

Arrive at dulles, about 40% or so have been coming to us. others have been in other status such as having a green card already where they can move on from dulles. >> thank you. and my follow up is can you give us an assessment of both the security risks as well as the covid-19 risks? as youre doing -- everyone is doing the screenings, what security risks are you seeing? you are seeing a number of people showing up on lists and then what about covid? how is that testing going? what are the threat...

Talking about. i believe were in a good position. thank you. >> following up on jens question. can you talk about the challenges that youve had with the dod and dhs systems, the biometric systems being able to pass that information in a timely manner and explain a little bit more about how all of the different flagging red that youve seen because names are passed through different sys systems? >> we cant answer that question. thats a question for dhs. i apologize. i dont have that information. >...

The ones that were operating from now. >> a quick follow up. currently it is a 14 step process to get an siv application validated. is there going to be a change in where those are processed, are those being processed overseas and then brought to u.s. bases for final relocation? >> i honestly cant answer that question. that is really for the tate department. they run the siv process. it is not a department of defense equity. >> thank you. >> may i ask -- thank you. next time i will bring more. p...

Security, et cetera for them at each of those locations. prior to arriving at our task force locations, were not directly involved with the paperwork process. i dont know the role in centcom of their forces. i defer you to general mckenzie. >> general, megan myers from military times. i want to ask why these particular bases were chosen for sivs? is it for space reasons, hard and soft buildings and/or what was it proximity to afghan communities? >> it wasnt necessarily for the specific location....

Hand, take your wife or your husband and make it through the gauntlet of kia? i want that person on my team not only because it is the right thing to do, but they are the kind of people who overcome obstacles, who have ingenuity, who are often strong leaders. so thats what i want us to accept, is the importance of doing this, and i think you are off to a good start. you see the civilian communities all across the country rising up. you see great organizations like jeremys that are building spons...

And abdul, as i like to call him, abdul was just going to wait on us -- he was going to gn and he was going to be fighting. now i told you numerous times, the afghan military was paid a lot of money by the united states -- both soldiers were among the highest paid soldiers. they werent fighting for their country. i remember when mathis was saying "sir, they are fighting for their country." they were fighting because they got paid a lot of money. why do soon as thats big it, they turned, and that...

Basis all of the way to the united states in the coming days and weeks. on that topic here is a week update on the military installations in our safe havens and staging bases that are helping transition all of these flights. locations including an airbase that steadily receive process and transfer to passengers in europe and in the united states. today they will receive about 19 flights and proximately 5,000 passengers in germany, italy, and spain. in turn, six flights will transport about 3300 ...

That the state department under the trump administration was unwilling because they stopped processing visas of our allies, and then didnt ramp up just to handle the capacity, the sheer volume in the six months that joe biden has been president. i guess now my question for the admiral is, how do we prosecute isis-k if we have no presence in afghanistan? we arent even going to have an embassy and a marine presence at the embassy per the usual. how are we going to do this in eastern afghanistan wi...

Terrorists and making them pay. but what does that look like now, what kind of leverage will the us still have after withdrawing from afghanistan?— have after withdrawing from afghanistan? have after withdrawing from afu hanistan? ~ ., ., afghanistan? well, we were told that at a national — afghanistan? well, we were told that at a national security _ afghanistan? well, we were told that at a national security meeting - afghanistan? well, we were told that at a national security meeting this...