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Something additional. i wont speculate right now. >> did the u.s. troops have to go through any taliban checkpoints to get the americans? >> no. >> can you, general, talk about the slight pause? how long did it last and can you say when it started, when it stopped? >> early this morning. lasted six to seven hours and it was allowed to ensure that flights in our immediate staging bases could receive more personnel. that has been cleaned up as flights have departed there, allowed us to continue wi...

We have been at this for some time now. since the security situation in kabul began to deteriorate. among those, we have evacuated in the past week or so have included members of our embassy team, american direct hire employees -- >> at-risk afghans are the majority of the people were talking about here. if you had one country that up until this date has agreed to accepted the afghans, what happened? >> as you know, we have -- dod has spoken to their tremendous capacity here in the united states...

Moment. is that correct? >> there is -- first of all, we relocated to the united states 2,000 siv applicants under operation allies. dohar has generously agreed to host these at-risk afghans and continue their processing and continue to their final destinations. in many cases, that is the united states. so qatar is not intended to be a long-term location for any africans for any third country nash names. flights have started to take off from qatar to bring people on a commercial basis, on a char...

>> we have airlifted 13,000 evacuees during the operation. in total since the end of july, the cumulative number is greater than 18,000. there are siv applicants, at-risk afghans that worked alongside us throughout our time in afghanistan and other vulnerable afghans including women and children. many of the flights leaving kabul have stopped in designated safe havens and staging bases in qatar and others where state department and military personnel are actively processing passengers for their ...

Resolve, and i understand that some of those air force planes will be able to land in germany but there is a problem because there is not permission, political permission from the white house in others for the u.s. military to bring afghan refugees, and many of the peopl on these lights are refugees, theyre not special immigrant visa holders, they arent american citizens, but bringing the refugees to the three american bases that have been identified here in the united states for some of the pro...

U.s. despite preparations being made at three american bases. many of the afghans who have been flown out, about 6,000 in the past 24 hours, are not as i holders, but fall under refugee status which complicates bringing them directly to the u.s. some evacuees are being taken t ramps being air based in germany . these logistical issues are slowing the pipeline of flights out of kabul. earlier today we heard from the air force c-17 flight crew who bravely evacuated more than 800 afghans on board. ...

I think we can point to 9/11 as either were not aware of the events that are likely to unfold or we dont do our job making sure people are aware of that. general milleys comments about he didnt see any estimates about the country collapsing in 11 days makes for a nice sound bite but its rather disingenuous. the estimates going back for some years noted that under the conditions we have seen over the past few months -- not weeks -- would lead to a rapid collapse of the government and fighting for...

Is called not during the fighting season. if they did this during the winter you would have the taliban and back in pakistan at their bases and it would not be the chaos we are seeing but as you mentioned biden and vice president harris, biden will deliver remarks, both leave immediately without taking questions and call it a weekend at 2:00 pm during this there is no going back in reversing public perception that they are in way over their heads. to give you context, to this point in his presid...

Now set to receive them, fort lee, fort mccoy and fort blis. the capacity at those three bases, we want to get up to 22,000 capacity. were not there yet. understandably. were building out to that. as the secretaries made clear to the department, if we fleneed t offer addition flal installations here, well do that. right now we think we can get up to 22,000 in relatively short order here over the next coming days and weeks. well see where that goes. >> well say the other afghans at risk, would yo...

Forces were turning and running and its not that they were hungry and their command hers abandoned them as well and that we had because once bagram closed we were giving them no cover? thats hard for americans to understand the degree to which the afghan forces really were isolated in their own country. in recent months the afghan government has really lost control of its territory other than urban areas other than kabul, kandahar and herat so the soldiers and police who were in outposts and rur...