making sure that where the american military and civilians are headed that that is the area that s secure. it doesn t mean that the u.s. military doesn t have the capability, the capacity to carry out a strike, the question is, will they have the intelligence to actually go after some of the people who may have carried out this attack yesterday. so what does this mean for the august 31st deadline from the pentagon perspective, which is now four days away. people say we have to get out on the 31st and this is why, because of the imminent threat of terrorist groups moving close to the airport now, on the other hand others say we have to get every last american and our afghan wartime partners out of there because of the threats in the country, what is the pentagon s thinking right now on the deadline? they are still full steam ahead for a complete withdrawal by august 31st, willie. there has not been any change to the timeline at this point.
and now, as of yesterday, they re at capacity. they really can t take anymore. there s now just about 17,000 people who are living at this base. now they ve tried to ramp up the processing here, they ve tried to increase the speed at which they re getting people going, but it s unclear how they can do that anymore. they have to start routing planes to bases in italy and elsewhere in europe. let s talk about isis-k, the group that claimed responsibility for the bombings yesterday. you ve done a lot of work covering isis over the years. what is isis-k? i think it s new to most people, who are they and what are their objectives? yeah, isis-k. the k comes from khorasan, a province in afghanistan. they ve been active in the east of afghanistan. that s where most of the fire fighting was.
planes landing, coming and going here at ramstein. this is one of the largest air bases in the world and it s an unusual sight here, seeing civilian aircraft, delta, united, atlas air landing here, mixed among the c-17s, c-130 transport aircraft, they re all part of the enormous operation. you can see a huge tent city also that houses as many as 17,000 afghan evacuees. this was a tent city built in a matter of days by u.s. soldiers but also their family members, spouses, and their children. they pitched in to bring together this huge evacuation effort. this base has been at capacity, i was told yesterday, by the man who runs it, brigadier general olson that the population of the base has tripled or quadrupled in just the last week or two.
experiences. right now we re going to continue ensuring that we utilize all of the protocols available to us because again, the health and safety of each and every member of our community is in the forefront of our decision making. have you been in touch with the governor? no, ma am, i have not. what is the reaction you re getting from the majority of students and parents? you re always going to have outliars on the fringe, but the majority of the student body? the majority of our community have been extremely supportive and i want to reiterate a word i just used, stephanie, supportive. it doesn t mean everybody has agreed. other folks may have differing opinions. our community has been extremely understanding and is working with us. so we re having a wonderful first day in austin isd. it is great to see our kids, teachers, staff. there s truth to the saying that
of a memo, written by the office of the legal counsel said that a sitting president could not be indicted but there was another process available to congress and that of course is impeachment. that doesn t mean that the president cannot be indicted later for his crimes. the question of course is whether the statute of limitations on those crimes is holding as he is a sitting president. it doesn t mean the president is above the law. there is a possibility of further criminal prosecution and indictment after the presidency ends. and katie, what are the consequences that the president exceeded his authority here? well, the consequences are criminal in nature and as melissa just noted, that olc member has recently been challenged by a federal court judge, who said no one is above the law, that is an olc member, it has never been tested, really in the court system, and mueller had his directives and he actually was limited in terms of what he could do, but now, there are federal and st