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Applicants and vulnerable afghans are out of harms way. now safer and on their journey to a better life. and the majority of these people, approximately 5 -- or 58,700 of them have left just since august 14th. i want to reiterate that were able to achieve this level of increased departures because of u.s. military personnel and our partners work around the clock conducting this highly important mission, including airport security and flight operation. to that end were seeing increased pace and i...

Bases. we have five bases and you say bye-bye. >> greg: bye-bye! [scattered applause] let me ask you, do you think that general patton was woke? i dont think so. >> let me ask you, do you think that general patton was woke? i dont think so. you know what woke means, it means youre a loser. everything woke -- everything woke -- its true. everything woke turns to [bleep], okay? >> greg: [laughs] im sorry we had to [bleep] and what of biden? do think they would have covered it if i fell in the air ...

Was not anticipated. and normally when you start out behind the eight-ball like that, it makes it all the more remarkable that theyve been able to ramp up their capacity so quickly. i think the big questions for the state department and for the department of homeland security will be what happens to all those people now? you have thousands of people in doha, qatar, and in other u.s. bases. an incredible diplomatic effort has also been assembled. these were not pre-existing plans that they have j...

Flight. that is part of the civil reserve air fleet that has just been activated. what is happening here is that military planes are bringing evacuees from afghanistan to u.s. bases and now commercial airliners like delta will be flying those evacuees back to the united states. but as we wait for departure, the planes stay put. as of monday night, the u.s. government says only one flight had left this base to bring evacuees to the u.s., a military plane with 60 passengers. that is nearly 8,000 i...

Expected to be held and they have a serious concern about covid. what are service members or anyone living on these bases being briefed to try to ease that concern? obviously as of yesterday they are still very concerned about that issue. >> sure, they have every right to be. were in the midst of a pandemic and conducting one of the largest airlift operations in recent american history is no small feat in the best of circumstances. this is not the best. in addition were doing it in the midst of ...

Can offer as to how the white house is thinking about that bigger, longer term question. >> the short answer is that they say they have it taken care of by being able to come in and do what they need to do as a counterterrorism mission from outside of afghanistan. that does -- i think as ambassador mcfaul is alluding to, thats a short-term proposition. that means, yes, we do have drones, we have long-range capabilities. we all kinds of other things we could do from a ring of countries and bases ...

For entry departed for the united states. u com received nearly 8,000 evacuees and considering installations in germany, italy, and spain in preparation to receive more flights to allow greater through-put to the united states. as i mentioned yesterday, the number of temporary safe haven locations across europe and middle east stands at 14. this allows us to expedite movement out of kabul and gives us flexibility from these intermediate staging bases. were appreciative of the support in this glo...

Here in the united states was another one. >> do you believe you need to increase the number? >> that is possible. that we might be looking at additional u.s. military instillations here in the united states. right now we are looking -- working with four of them. fort lee, mcguy and bix and in new jersey. those are the operating now and beginning to see a flow of siv applicants. and it is very well possible that we could need to use additional u.s. military installations here stateside as we mak...

Airmen on the air base in qatar. one of a number of facilities that now eventually around the world are dealing with these thousands of tired, desperate, at times exhausted even hungry afghan refugees arriving. when i got there on tuesday they were beginning to see that the scope of the problem around them, frankly, just not enough air-conditioned spaces in the hundred plus degree farenheit desert space. it is exceptionally hot here in the qatari desert, almost impossible at times to think. and ...

To a very interesting pro-choice, pro-pharma, anti-vaccine, pro-kgun and and pro-whiskey protest. that covers a lot of bases. you said, met some nice people, to better understand the lack of vaccine competence and learn the power of disinformation. what did you learn at that protest? >> so what i learned at this protest is that people were protesting for different reasons. most of them were not health care workers, which is what this was billed as, but most importantly, how misinformed people ar...