Page 207 - Dod News Today

That operation has been hugely expedited. it was a couple of days ago. the state department and dod were saying this was going to be done august 31st. now theyre saying it needs to be done by tuesday. they should be running these evacuation runs 24/7 and going throughout the night as well. in addition to the u.s. embassy personnel who are the first people trying to get out, there are the thousands and thousands of u.s. nationals including duo nationals and people work for the u.s. government or ...

Last stand there, the lives of many afghans depends on the u.s. holding the airport. for as long as possible. i cant stress this enough. i understand that the military is evacuating u.s. personnel, but there are tens of thousands, or thousands and tens of thousands of afghan civilians who have worked for the u.s. government, given their lives to the u.s. government for our national security purposes who are now stuck in the country, and their only way out is if the airport stays open to allow co...

The Afghan capital, Kabul, is not in an "imminent threat environment" despite sudden territorial gains by the Taliban across the country, a U.S. Pentagon

Moral obligations to help those who help us. we were ready, willing and able to support efforts to move special immigrants, and people applying for special immigrant visas out of the country, and we have met that obligation. it is a process that, as you know, it does not reside here at the defense department. and a process that has requirements. so what i can tell you from the d.o.d. perspective, it is not something that we ever lost sight of, and an obligation that we just came around to, and a...

Those who helped us and that we were ready, willing, and able to support efforts to move special immigrants, people applying for special immigrants visa out of the country and to locations, and we have met that obligation. it is a process that, as you know, does not reside here at the defense department. and a process that has requirements. so, what i can tell you is from a d.o.d. perspective, its not something we ever lost sight of. it wasnt an obligation we just all of a sudden forgot and then...

Commiting to send. at what point does that be cut off? >> we are still supporting the afghan security forces and the afghan government. thats what we will be focussed on doing. it would be easy to speculate about what the future of afghanistan looks like right now. we want to focus on what we are doing. we are working on support so we cant suffer a threat from afghanistan again. we are focussed on the security situation as we see it now. what we have to do, the missions we have been assigned by ...

Surprise. obviously, were watching this just like youre watching this, and seeing it happen in realtime. and its deeply concerning. its, in fact, the deteriorating conditions are a factor -- a big factor in why the president has approved this mission. to help support our -- the reduction of personnel there in kabul. so, i mean, were adjusting as best we can, given those conditions, and again, this is a -- this is a moment for the afghans to unite, the leadership, and in the military, no outcome ...

>> we said for quite sometime we know we have a moral obligation to help those who helped us. we were ready, willing and able to support efforts to move special immigrants, people applying for special immigrants visa out of the country in 2 locations and we met that obligation. its a process that, as you know, doesnt reside here at the defense department. its a process that has requirements. what i can tell you from a dod perspective. its not something we ever lost sight of. it was not an obliga...

To be inevitable here. and so i am watching this as you are in realtime, and it is deeply concerning, and in fact, the deteriorating conditions are a factor of, and big factor in why the president has approved this mission to help support our reduction of personnel there in kabul. so i mean, we are adjusting as best we can given those conditions, and again, this is a moment for the afghans to unite, the leadership and the military, and no outcome has to be inevitable here. >> and if the taliban ...

Welcome back. as we await a briefing from the pentagon on the news of the dod deployment to kabul to help with the evacuations there, we will move on the other news in the last hour. a major drop of data from the 2020 u.s. census, and dont reach for the remote. trust me this is a big deal. the information that we are now digging through is going to be used to redraw the congressional maps and it could kick off a massive nationwide redistricting fight that could help to determine the mid-term ele...