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Will still have human resources. thats their job. thats what they do. so we can put all that together and hopefully have a trip wire. if we then need to go in and conduct direct action operations, thats going to have to come from great distances, over a thousand miles to our bases in nations in the gulf. this is not mission impossible but its going to be mission pretty hard going forward. >> have pentagon officials articulated what they think would happen if the u.s. stays in afghanistan a few m...

Nick paton walsh is live in doha, qatar. walk us through what kind of security vetting is the u.s. giving these tens of thousands of refugees that it is evacuating? >> reporter: they hope people arrive with some kind of documentation that they can match the pooem individuals with the siv case numbers that they have in happened. but it is not great coms so it is an imprecise process. and ive heard of a lot of people who once you are on the airport, you get stuck on one of these massive c-17s and ...

And safe havens in both centcom and the yu com aors. weve been focused on bl capacity while rapidly processing and facilitating on ward movement. it has been challenging to keep up with the flow. weve made progress in caring for and safeguarding these vulnerable individuals and getting them moving onward. we are committed to doing more. and to continue to expand and improve our facilities from adding shelter to additional sanitation, hand washing stations, refrigerator trucks providing cold wate...

Efficient. >> so are there more people showing up now than there were last week when there was so much pan panic. >> as we look at those showing up with the right documentation is one factor that has allowed us to increase the through-put. >> and the crush of the first few days as reduced as more order and structure around the airport has increased, security and the processing flow itself has just gotten better and the crowds around the airport are smaller than they were before. so, the situatio...

Getting out. it has become an evacuation of personnel but also a refugee airlift at the same time. >> so matt, youre at a u.s. air base where a lot of folks are going, remain. tell us where things stand now. >> reporter: yeah, chris. it is interesting because this air base, this is one of the largest military bases outside of the u.s. in the world, it is another massive bottleneck of the kind richard was describing. i spoke with some evacuees, theyre outraged, angry, some showed me u.s. passport...

And they will push harder to destroy israel by sitting up bases of attack in syria, and reinforcing their present in lebanon. they will be doing working harder yet against saudi arabia, they have been at war with, proxy war via yemen and reenergize across the region, well see great danger from iran and other countries that are no longer deterred by the united states. mark: well be right back. for t! forty percent of people with type 2 diabetes will develop chronic kidney disease, or ckd. did you...

Rating has dipped below 50% for the first time in his presidency. today he acknowledged his realities on the ground but defended his administrations handling of the situation. >> let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul will be hard and painful no matter when it started, when we began. it would have been true if we started a month ago, or a month from now. theres no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. >> y...

Ability -- not necessarily the actual count -- but ability to built out to 25,000 capacity. we arent there yet. it will take a few days to get to that level and thats the goal right now. the other thing i would say is if the secretary in communication with the chairman and general feels we need to add to that capacity and add to the list additional u.s. military installations well do that. right now we are at four. >> whats the current number of individuals at the four bases? >> i dont have that...

To be discussions, i suspect, on how far along we are in the process. >> reporter: the united states now activating the civil reserve air fleet, only the third time in its history. six u.s. commercial airlines will provide 18 aircraft to help move passengers arriving at bases outside of afghanistan. >> in short, were not flying them directly to a country. were flying to these processing stations where were working with more than two dozen countries across four continents. at these sites where th...

The temporary transit locations we have established joint bases in germany, italy, and spain have capacity to process at least 15,000 people on a rolling basis. significantly expanding our ability to relocate u.s. citizens and at-risk afghans from afghanistan. these flights departed in germany today. we are grateful to host governments for agreeing to allow the united states to host at-risk afghans while we make arrangements to relocate them to the united states or to a third country. our embass...