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U.s. military assess that the number of americans still in the country are only the ones that no longer want to leave, are they largely out now and its our understanding the evacuation of afghans is largely complete also. so are you solely concentrating on just getting u.s. troops out and equipment? >> just go back total, 122,000 were evacuated, approximately 5,000400 americans. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end. as you talk about active working ...

Dont have that problem. we are going to continue to have a problem with the rain water, because if the bumps go out, you cant pump it throughout the city, and thats going to be big challenge tomorrow for them to get the sewage pumps out of the city, and making sure all the sewage lines are back up and running to bump that out. one thing they did do after katrina, most of the hospitals did get large generators to run the hospitals, so i heard there was a problem at one of them and that should be ...

To get the american citizens there first and then other green card holders and the majority of the flights, of those 17, are afghans. >> i understand congressional people are being briefed that youre starting to destroy ammunitions as well as equipment. you could give us a sense of that effort. >> at kabul? yeah. you know, what i go back to is commanders on the ground retain that authority. and the capability to remove or destroy equipment and weapons to ensure that those dont fall into the hand...

National security interests. >> are you going to continue to coordinate with them after august 31st? >> i think your question is entirely hypothetical compared to something we have been coordinating. i dont think it is helpful for us to talk about what the capability will look like going forward. we have the capability, we demonstrated that in the last couple days we have that ability to go forward. >> does the u.s. or the pentagon

That the number of americans still in the country are only the ones that no longer want to leave or the ones who want to leave, are they largely out now and it is our understanding that the evacuation of afghans is largely complete also. so are you now solely concentrating on just getting u.s. troops out and equipment? >> so just go to go back, total, 122,000 were evacuated. approximately 5,400 americans. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end. but as...

Rescue efforts, and what it will take to recover from this historic storm. and were expecting to hear from president biden as he speaks with the fema administrator, mayors, and governors dealing with it. and now the last remaining troops are trying to safely evacuate themselves from kabul and as many civilians as possible. >> we continue to have and will maintain the capability to protect ourselves and defend ourselves as we continue to complete this retrograde. o complete this retrograde yeah...

Homeland. we still have that capability. we will use that capability. >> what is not hypothetical is the fact that the u.s. military has been corridor nafti-- coordinating on the the ground. if you are going to continue coordinating with them in this case against isis-k is a hypothetical. will you continue to coordinate with the taliban after august 31st. >> i beg to differ. i think your question is entirely hypothetical but something that is entirely different than what weve been coordinating o...

In the mast 20 years. >> thats a very, very good point. im glad you made it. what do you say to the more hawkish critics of the president who say, look, leaving afghanistan, especially leaving afghanistan in this way whether we like it or not will embolden our enemies they say. will lead to afghanistan once again becoming a haven for al qaeda and other terrorist groups. what do you say to them? >> i would say a couple of things, that the drone strikes in the past couple of days have indicated th...

The ability to fly in drones or fighter jets or bombers from other bases, perhaps in the gulf to carry out counter terrorism strikes against isis-k or al-qaeda or even perhaps one day the taliban. the u.s. said that capability and that mission will continue. is this war over? i think you can say now that this war is over. the question about whether there emerges a terror threat in afghanistan that is able to emerge and threaten the u.s. hom homeland, right now nobody is ruling that out. >> we wo...

Force commander with russell wilson. they were the last people to stand on the ground, step on the airplane. who has happened the last 12, 18 hours? first of all, we were intent on maintaining the ability to bring out americans and other afghans as long as we could. so we kept that capability until just a few hours ago. we were able to bring out some people earlier in the day. we had to cut it off sometime before this operation began. we were intent on maintaining that capability. we were also i...