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By hour, monitoring the threat environment very carefully. as i said, the communication with the taliban continues. >> politico. first of all, can you tell us the total estimated cost of the evacuation? and then also, can you explain the discrepancy between the date and dod numbers on the number of people evacuated? state is saying 25,000 since the operation began but major general taylor earlier said 37,000. what is that discrepancy? >> with the numbers question, i cant speak. i dont know where...

And that was before the lockdown of wuhan. while i was there, i heard quote unquote, rumors about a virus, but immediately the chinese officials said it was a rumor. there was no virus. so, i left my son who is 3 years old with my mom and i came back to the u.s. for work trip. and it was during that time wuhan was locked down. and initially as a mother, as a daughter, that i was trying to figure out how dangerous the virus was and what was the real information, would i need to get my son out of ...

As i said, the communication with the taliban continues. rob? >> first of all, can you tell us the total estimated cost of the evacuation? and then also can you explain the discrepancy between the state and dod numbers on the number of people evacuated, state is saying 25,000 since the operation began. but major general taylor earlier today, i believe he said 37,000. so what is that discrepancy? >> i cant speak -- i dont know where the other number came from. but i think were all in in the inner...

Actually dont have a lot of -- i want to say immediate news about whats happening on the ground. i would say theres a discrepancy between obviously the words that taliban leaders are announcing about how safe things are going to be and how calm theyre going to be and whats actually taking place for two reasons. one is that they dont control every single, you know, fighter they have on the streets, and the other reason is that they are consciously trying to project a somewhat more palatable image...

Delaware for the weekend and vice president harris heads and 50s asia. guys? pete: lucas, thank you for that report. real quick question here. what do you make of that discrepancy? you have joe biden saying you can get through the gates. you have other officials saying otherwise. and then you had the evidence of the fact that we had to rescue 169 american citizens. these are not siv applicants, american citizens less than a mile from the kabul airport yet we were told from the podium by joe bide...

Hutterred from the lips of an american president there has been cop that addiction as we mentioned earlier. joe biden 1ed american citizens are getting in just fine thanks to our buddies the taliban. you were on a call with the defense secretary lloyd austin who immediately almost immediately contradicted that here is how politico reported the call and we want to get your take, sir. he said that lloyd austin said this we are also aware that some people, including americans, have been harassed. a...

Together. they clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place. the question is, well they generate the kind of cohesion to do it. >> the president continues to face backlash over how the u.s. is leading afghanistan with the military and intelligence community appear to be saying at least publicly theyre in agreement chaos in some form was expected, even if the speed at which it happened was not. for more, i am joined by kelly odonnell and courtney tube at the pentagon. start at the...

I can assure them and you can ursure them on our behalf that we in the pentagon will do everything we can to help get them out of the country over the next couple of weeks. >> its been more than 12 hours since you asked that question. youve been talking to people in kabul. i mean, have afghans been able to do that? talk about this process to get on the list, does that require an internet hook up? how -- what is this? >> its not just an internet hook up. it requires letters of recommendation. it ...

To do that? talk about this process to get on the list, does that require an internet hook-up? how -- what is this? >> its not just an internet hookup. it requires letters of recommendation. it requires security checks. it can take years to get through that bureaucracy. and i know plenty of people who have been calling me, my phone has been burning up, anderson, for the last couple of days. and they tell me, oh, my s.i.v. application was rejected because of some discrepancy about this or that or...

Than a checkmark that will die out in a few days. if it werent that serious in part of it is that because of coming from inside the house. you had a clear difference of opinion you are watching john kirbys face when he is talking about this and hes part of the longtime community that agreed with the advice that we cant just pull out like this. in the interviews, president biden and i should mention the prime minister of the uk said the same thing that the taliban will not take control ever again...