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Pride, i will tell them i was an interpreter and did it for my country and my people. and david, there are continuing efforts to try to get abodul an his family out of afghanistan. >> i know youre going stay in contact with him, martha. thanks for that. as you heard president biden say, he had no indication americans were having trouble getting to the airport. the defense secretary did tell lawmakers there are some reports americans have been beaten. the pentagon also saying there are reports ...

Increase that is there. to ensure that we have food, water, health care and is up mine americans. >> reports of french doing something similar, getting their people out. why cant the americans do that? is it because its too risky for that kind of operation? >> the president was clear that well do whatever we have to do to rescue as many americans as want to leave afghanistan. the secretary is not going to rule anything in or out in terms of what the possibilities might be there. i would also not...

Clearly, we will be prepared and postured, if we had to do something additional. i wont speculate right now. >> did the u.s. troops have to go through any taliban check points? >> no. >> can you talk a bit more about the flight pause? how long did it last and when it started, when it stopped? >> earliest was six to seven hours. it was allowed to ensure that flights in staging basis could receive more personnel. thats been cleaned up as flights have departed there. continue with those that are re...

Like where i work and others made it clear that any sort of military withdrawal would put those allies, partners, at risk and any sort of military retro military operation, a complex logistical puzzle to move 20 years of supplies and equipment out had to have a component that evacuated people. but it did not. at the end of the day, we did not evacuate people, and so as soon as the u.s. withdrew from the provinces, the taliban put up check points on roads, made it difficult to get into kabul, and...

In the hot, hot sun. there were families. there were babies. at one stage a newborn baby was brought through quickly on a military vehicle, it zipped past us and we went and chased after and the soldier told us that the baby had dehydrated and suffering from some kind of a sunstroke. the baby is now apparently okay because it was able to get medical attention. but, you know, just an awful scene. you think to yourself, these are the lucky ones. these are the people who are able to get in through ...

>> i have several follow up questions. the president said it was 169 americans. you say americans are having no trouble getting through check points to the best of your knowledge. me qu my questions are this. first of all, what was the situation of these 169 americans that required u.s. troops to go outside the perimeter and get them. why these 169 americans? when did there happen? how long did the mission last? was it 169 americans all together? did you feel you had safe passage from taliban? t...

Ta capacity? >> we didnt wait so many days. we been flowing in forces consistently over the course of the last week. we have been nothing but transparent to you about what we have been flowing in. again, we will do whatever we can and if theres a need to do this and its an operation that we can talk about, well talk about it. okay. >> the reports americans have been beaten by the ftaliban in kabul. >> were mindful of these reports and they are deeply troubling. we have communicated to the taliba...

Options, tee them up and offer up opportunities to the secretary to make the recommendation. we would go from there. >> this many days into the operation, the u.s. military has the capability and capacity to go into kabul and get americans for the first time? >> we have additional capacity now as we have flown additional forces in im not going to talk about future operations one way or the other. every decision thats made has got to be weighed against the risk and their benefits of what youre do...

To get people past these check points, getting them way out to bagram is not easy. i can tell you i have driven the road from kabul to bagram before. i imagine there is taliban check points along it now. so maybe people that dont have the ability to get themselves out there. but beyond that it is a bigger base. it takes tens of thousands of people to secure the base. you could theoretically get more flights coming and there is more room to keep people. it may make it not as easy of a target. so ...

Now, whats happened in the interim two weeks? besides, you know, afghanistan falling in its entirety to the taliban. back home in rhode island, major thomas schueman has been in repeated contact with zak in afghanistan, trying to do for zak what zak was asking of president biden. take him out of this crisis, somehow help him flee the country. major schueman had helped zak with his visa applications. he made phone calls, he wrote letters on his behalf. he sent zak money so zak could try to get hi...