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Whoever it will be at the - reporter: does the pentagon or whoever it will be at the authority to continue — whoever it will be at the authority to continue to _ whoever it will be at the authority to continue to conduct _ whoever it will be at the authority to continue to conduct strikes - to continue to conduct strikes against — to continue to conduct strikes against isis-k _ to continue to conduct strikes against isis—k after— to continue to conduct strikes against isis—k after all-...

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...

The sleep number 360 smart bed is on sale now. theres a high likelihood of additional attacks between now and the 31st. what i can tell you is this. and we met again this morning with the president and our top commanders both in the field and, of course, the chairman of the joint chiefs and secretary of defense, and i know that theyre taking every possible precaution to keep our men and women safe, but this is the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission, these last ...

Joint chiefs and all of our commanders on the ground to end our airlift as planned. their view was that ending a military mission was to protect the lives of our troops and secure the prospects of civilian departures and for those ones leave afghanistan in the weeks and months ahead. and asking the secretary of state will be hearing from shortly to leave the continued coordination with our international partners to ensure safe passage for any americans, afghan partners and foreign nationals who ...

Terrorists as these families that they are mourning, he knows firsthand, there is nothing to say or nothing to convey to ease the pain, and to ease what all of these families are going through. but he was honored to be there yesterday and to spend some time with the families. got ahead. >> two technical questions and one other question. you said that 6,000 have been evacuated or otherwise evacuated, and is that with the people who have been evacuated and have been registered or did not register ...

Advice of the commanders on the ground and their advice was to close bagram and focus on kabul. >> bill: a lot of questions on this. jake sullivan with chris wallace over the weekend now leaving bagram early. a lot of questions about that mood amid the ongoing debacle in afghanistan. the "washington post" reports the taliban offered to stay out of kabul and allow the u.s. forces to secure the city. the u.s. turned down that offer saying that we only need the local airport. karl rove joins us. go...

Been very clear that his commanders on the ground have the leeway to do what they think is necessary on the ground. for a defensive strike like we saw last night, is it something that he signs off on? or is that commanders on the ground to make that decision? >> secretary psaki: he makes clear to their commanders that they should stop at nothing to make isis pay for the death of those american service members at the kabul airport. they have the authority necessary. it is self-defense, obviously ...

Special edition of "way too early." were going down to afghanistan. according to a u.s. official who spoke with reuters, a missile defense system intercepted multiple rockets fired at hamid karzai international airport this morning. officials say as many as five rockets were fired, although, it was not clear if the defense system brought down all of them. white house press secretary jen psaki said president biden had been briefed on the thwart of the attack writing in brief, quote, he has reconf...

The u.s. military here. do you see a role for the u.s. military to have open conversations with the taliban, even potential coordination going forward, in particular with this growing and now accentuated threat from isis? >> well, ill tell you, my dealing with the taliban and the dealings of my commanders on the ground with the taliban revolved around our determination to execute this operation and the very flat statement we made to them that, you know, if you challenge us we are going to hurt y...

Have access to all this information as well, is mitigate risks. we cant eliminate risk, and if we were going to continue to evacuate tens of thousands of people, american citizens, afghans, our partners, we had to mitigate risk. we couldnt eliminate it. and thats how we proceeded. now, the president has been clear to his military and to the commanders on the ground that force protection is of utmost concern, and i know my colleague at d.o.d. confirmed the closure of gates earlier today. there ha...