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While its never perfect, we believe that well be able to have appropriate warning should there be that kind of a level threat coming from afghanistan towards the homeland. we have also the capability in the region to deal with it. >> thank you. the president just suggested that extending the perimeter outside of the hkia might put troops at a risk. hes not clear meaning the risk would be the taliban or groups like al-quaida or isis. can you talk about that risk and is it because there was some s...

The capability to rescue large numbers of people in downtown kabul. more u.s. troops would be required as evacuation flights continue to ramp up nearly 6,000 people evacuated. 300 people per flight over mass capacity about the aircraft. the u.s. taxpayer funding the afghan army to the tune of $85 billion over the past 20 years. president biden said something about that last month. >> president biden: provided our afghan partners with all the tools. all the tools, training equipment of any modern...

Capability, which we know our military has come up but as thi white white house, moments from know now going to show the will? >> thats exec we correct which is what is the difference. they were planning attacks on u.s. and u.s. bases, that is what we needed to do. the taliban, the region saw that , the entire region saw that , so when we are discussing with them and when we are negotiating, we know theres muscle in willpower behind that. we still have that muscle of course, we are the united st...

Food, water and sanitation. >> yes. and i are no report they didnt. >> i want to follow up on the 169 americans rescued. was that an incident where a commander took a decision and left the wire to help those people? were weapons drawn? did that commander ask for a higher up authority to leave the wire? >> im going to absolutely get more. you know, as you look about the gate, you already see that, you know, soldiers out there are starting now to increase that capability, that security around the ...

Through is shameful. we should be embarrassed, but we can fix this. what did you make of general awing say the u.s. doesnt have the capability to go out in kabul or other cities to get americans and afghans who cant get to the airport? inch the british are doing it. the germans are doing it, the french are doing it. i cant believe this country is utterly unable to operate within the country, where we have assets in the region. im speechless that he says its out of our control. this is the united...

Watching this news conference at the pentagon. you know, the reason that this particular question is out there is because we have seen the united kingdom and weve seen france running missions and getting people, their own people, back home outside that perimeter with success. the united states has said that they will not go, we will not go outside the airport perimeter to help people to get to the airport what do you think about that? >> i watched the presidents brief, the briefing at the pentag...

Thinking rationally. the taliban should realize that it is not in their own selfish interest to see another terrorist organization crop up within their midst. that happened 20 years ago. it didnt end so well for the taliban 20 years ago. so its in their interest to make sure that al-qaeda or the islamic state does not crop up. but we need to be vigilant. from a homeland security perspective, we need to be vigilant. the president today talked about the over horizon capability. what he means by th...

Way to the airport and we are the greatest military power in the world. todd: the answer to your question. jillian: on the ground -- neil: answer is we can and every individual we have had this week, members of the rank and file said we have the capability to get the job done. while you are mentioning questions another question is why the administration cannot answer how many people we have in afghanistan to begin with. every time we go to a foreign country we show a passport. i thought they wer...

700 isis terrorists left in the country and they built a calibrate the size of great britain and they spread their ten kills around the world and carried out 129 attacks that killed 2,000 people. remember charlie hebdo, the nightclub the blowing up of the brussels airport. they carried out attacks all across the world. joe biden says we have this over the horizon capability? first of all we dont have any intelligence on the ground anymore. we dont have any afghans who are going to tell us where ...

Food, water and sanitation? >> i have no report they didnt. >> thank you. >> i want to follow up on the 169 americans who were rescued. was that an incident where a commander took a decision and left the wire to help those people? were weapons drawn or did that commander ask for higher up authority to lead? >> im going to absolutely get more. you already see that soldiers that are out there are starting now to increase that capability, that security around the gate. >> we have bmeen told theres ...