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And i would be reticent to get more specific than that. but since the 14th we believe we have been able to evacuate several thousand americans. >> very quickly lastly so the last table top exercise was about three weeks ago. >> it was about three weeks ago. it was certainly before kabul fell. this is something -- i talked about this before, this was something that the pentagon had been thinking about for a long time. i mean, as far back as late april when we held a rehearsal of concept exercise ...

Have been able to evacuate several thousand americans. >> very quickly. the last size for an operation from kabul was three weeks ago. >> certainly before kabul fell. this was something that -- i talked about this before. this was something that the pentagon had been thinking about for a long time. as far back as late april when we held a rehearsal of concept exercise looking at the retrograde and parse out through the summer. a part of that conversation was the potential for non-come at ant eva...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and thats what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go bac...