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Target? there are no more u.s. troops and personnel who are able to gather intel and pick out whats information and give you the information necessary to carry out a strike. so youre either relying on intelligence you can pick up from above from drones as well as satellites or youre relyingrelying on the taliban to pass you that information. it becomes logistically very difficult but certainly within the capability of the military to find the target that its looking for. the bigger question is w...

>> yeah. blowback for pakistan which has had -- well, through its intelligence service, the isi, has had its fingers in the taliban for some time. its clear the u.s. had intelligence forewarning of this attack. how much harder will it be to get that kind of intelligence once the u.s. military leaves kabul? and whats the path forward for u.s. in dealing with terror in the region? what -- what effective capability will it have, versus what it has had? >> so, yeah, with the withdrawal of u.s. force...

Months before this time. get our afghan partners and interpreters out of there. establish an isr capability close to afghanistan. and they did none of this. so now, were down to the 11th hour. the isis-k threat is very real and they are the worst of the worst. a lot came out of the prisons. khorasan, the k stands for that. i think you will see another attack. i think our goal right now all we can hope for, the best, jake, is to get every american we can out of afghanistan by august 31st. the air...

The number of people that well see getting processed over the next several days. is that number going to gradually go down and do you have out the number of people that you think youre going to or what is your ballpark estimate? >> all right. on the the first question, on the capability and abilities to protect ourselves or to also to conduct the strikes as you said, as ive said all along, we have resources, with the cent com commander and with the commanders on the ground and the capabilities t...

Taliban. but, boy, if your security plan depends, in part, on the taliban, that is an enormous risk and we saw the consequence of that risk yesterday. >> what about going ahead here? what about moving forward? >> the risk is still there. theres no question. no one ive spoken to about this intelligenc intelligence prior to this attack has told me isis-k has lost both the intent and capability to carry out attacks. theyre good. theyre good at this. this is what they do. they have an enormous prese...

0 much but if it is significantly pushed back and what are you seeing in terms of flow to abbey gate. is it less people being allowed in or still a rush of people? which could lead to some -- what are you seeing today? >> so, what i can report as my discussion with the commanders there on the the ground is that multiple activities have taken place to increase the force protection specifically in communication with the taliban of how they are executing their check point operations and communicati...

0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. were working to evacuate remaining staff and weve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they h...

0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. were actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say...

0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and ...

The president saying we will hunt you down. this will be a test of the new reality in afghanistan because by pulling out u.s. forces which also includes u.s. contractors but also u.s. intelligence assets and also placing u.s. air bases outside of the country, that means less time over target by drones, et cetera, you have less intelligence gathering, less capability to carry out strikes like this. the president talks about over the horizon capability. yes, the u.s. has a lot of technology. its n...