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Bases, what our goal would be is to reach the ability, not necessarily the actual count, but the ability to build out to about 25,000 capacity. we arent there yet, louis. its going to take days and weeks i think for all four to be able to combine to get to that level, but thats the goal as we are right now. and the other thing i would say is if the secretary in communication with the chairman and with general at north com feels we need to add to that capacity and add to the list additional u.s. ...

>> any concerns about positive tests for soldiers on the ground or any examples of soldiers testing positive? >> i dont have that level -- i dont know what positive results may have come in for soldiers working at the airfield but obviously their health and safety remains a top concern for all of us. yeah. >> at the top i think you announced joint base mcguire is -- is that something new? >> that is one additional base. we had been talking about three before that. joint base mcguire-dix-lake hur...

>> refugee groups told the biden white house in june that there were at least 100,000 afghans that had to be evacuated. they ignored that warning. theres going to be growing pressure. there are some groups calling for a safe haven to be created by the u.s. military at the airport or maybe north of there at bagram. international allies are criticizing the united states. just lastly on the this fear of afghans coming, theyre all going to military bases abroad. the guam option, gerald ford removed ...

You details in a timely manner. as you know recently the secretary of defense activated the stage 1 of the civil reserve air fleet. right now that activation includes 18 aircraft from six commercial airlines. this will increase passenger movement from the intermediate staging bases, temporary safe havens to the united states. while we continue to prioritize million tear aircraft for the transportation of individuals out of kabul and out of harms way. note as i said these craft flights will not b...

Defended his administrations handling of the situation. >> let me be clear, evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to 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. there is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss, and heartbreaking images that you see on television. >> yesterday, 7800 people were evacuated including american citizens, special immigrant visa applicants, their f...

Out, thousands of people at a time. we have agreements with 26 nations around the world to logistically move africans and americans and third country nationals out of the country and to air bases throughout neighboring countries and further afield. all of that within seven days. no plan survives first contact with reality. no plan can account for every contingency that occurs at a tactical level on a day-to-day basis. what you do is you adjust. weve adjusted, and while were continuing to face ge...

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 b if youre 55 and up, t- mobile has plans built just for you. switch today and get 2 lines of unlimited and 2 ...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and thats what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go bac...

Our citizens, our weapons, then you bomb the hell out of the bases. we have five bases. and we say bye bye. we say bye bye. >> repeating everything twice. that having been said, you served as homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to mike pence. so when you hear trump rail against bidens handling and suggest his allies would have presided over a perfect and orderly withdrawal over, what do you think the reality is? >> i think trump and pompeo own this just as much. they cut this deal wit...

Quickly able to get through the gates into the airport, and then onto those flights. one development is that the us department of defence has announced that it will activate what it calls the civil reserve air fleet, cumin during a set of commercial airliners to help with the evacuation. so 18 airliners from different us airlines will now be taken over by the military, will support the evacuation effort. they be flown directly into kabul airport but they will be used to collect people from the n...