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Vulnerable are little afghan girls. what are you hearing? are afghan girls able to get out? >> no, they are not. people have gotten visas. some people cannot get to the airport. i was asked to look for people in the airport who could facilitate their coming in. thats not happening. were looking at the borders with pakistan and its too unsafe to get them all the way there, so i figure the afghan women and girls are going to be left behind and thats something of serious concern to all womens right...

Of the embassy, of afghans, it will sap the will of our soldiers to stand up and defend our country. it was massive to believe that eye mass evacuation too early would have led to what we wanted to avoid, which was a major collapse of the government. even if we had begun it early, there still would have been tens of thousands of afghans that the collapse of the government would have rushed the airport. there still would have been the scenes were seeing today with all the incumbent security threa...

>> peter, the focus right now is to get the remaining americans out of the country, the afghan partners out of the country, and as i said in response to phils question, this is not a preferred relationship, or a situation that we would have designed if we had started from scratch. that is very clear. but right now, we need to continue to coordinate and that is the focus for the next couple of days. >> the last one, you said that we will have a great deal of leverage over the taliban after we lea...

As other countries are coming in, they are evacuating certain numbers of where they are in their capability or requirement. so i have thif -- think thats where you have seen some of the differences in the outwar flow. you have to go back to 110,000 total. so as we started just under almost just a few weeks ago at zero to up 110,000 we would see some of those numbers start to come down. >> let me go back to the phones. sam. >> john, as part of the exit, is it the u.s. intention to leave a functio...

Will we try to bring the known terrorists to justice before we leave the country? >> peter, the focus is on getting the remaining american citizens who want to depart out of the country. as i said in response to phils question this is not a preferred relationship or a situation that we would have designed if we had started from scratch. i think thats very clear but right now we need to coordinate. thats the focus for a couple days. >> you said we think well have a great deal of leverage of the t...

Americans, even after our military presence at the airport is gone because we know no matter how long the military presence stays, were not going to be able to get everybody out. we need to have the option of getting more people out after that. and that is going to be very dependent, sadly, tragically, on the taliban cooperation because the taliban are running the country. so the hope is after august 31st, we build the relationship, you have a functioning airport, and youre still able to get peo...

>> sec. of state psaki: our focus right now is on doing everything we can to get the remaining american citizens who want to depart out of the country. to get our afghan partners out of the country. this is not a preferred relationship or a situation that we would have designed if we had started from scratch. i think that is very clear. right now we need to coordinate, that is our focus next couple days. >> you said you think we will have a great deal of leverage over the taliban after we leave....

0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and ...

Theyve not yet made the decision to depart. maybe theyre working on a range of projects. theyre not ready to leave. it hard for us to understand as we look at the images. for many this is their home. yes, theyre duel citizens. yes, its our responsibility to make sure that were reaching out to them multiple times. were providing opportunity and finding ways to get them to the airport and evacuate them. its also their personal decision to depart. >> could i follow up on some of the questions about...

Airport and i hope im framing this right but theres been the sense that ive heard i think from you and others in this administration that the taliban is by and large met its commitment to allow people with the right papers on to the airport. can you try to help americans that are seeing and what seems to be a disconnect between these two different statements of what is happening there. >> well, first let me say i wouldnt see it as a disconnect and let me explain to you why. i noted earlier that ...