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Not the case or that -- theres a week left before the august 31st deadline. if that road is closed what options does the u.s. have? >> its important to remember the united states retained significant leverage over the taliban. we have 90% of their assets in u.s. controlled banks. 75% of taliban governing resources come from the international donor community. the united states has leverage over the taliban to ensure we can continue to work with ngos for evacuations. and its important to remember ...

0 >> it does not. >> lprs also been qucontacted? >> yep. >> what about siv applicants? can we get numbers? >> its okay. >> since this whole thing began theres been a lot of criticism of the administration over how its handled. theres been a lot of push back about the hand that you were dealt by the previous administration in terms of the deal with the taliban and terms of the siv program and the broader refugee program. you have been in office for almost eight months. its been five months since ...

0 these are known passport holders. >> okay. but have -- have lprs also been contacted? >> yes. >> and what about siv applicants, people who are -- were in contact -- >> will we get -- >> im sorry. >> i dont expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began theres been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and theres been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you ...

0 admiral and the general arent working in in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go another one on the phone. tara. >> thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned also that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans havent gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain kind of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out aft...

I think that is the merging of motivations that you may be seeing between the united states and the taliban right now that may suggest why we are able to get as many people out as possible. we know all the chaos and still not have any troops, knock on wood, that have been killed. >> it is important to note its impressive how much its ramped up and to your point, that there have not been these issues. the g7 set one condition, asking the taliban to guarantee safe passage out of afghanistan after ...

Out can leave? >> well, certainly is not going to be a cutoff date where everything just ends. you know, the taliban put that hard line position up because thats how you negotiate over there. by sending our cia director who is, as i understand, 30 years a diplomat was the right person to go there. so by bringing the taliban to the table, letting them know that there are alternatives that -- and, you know, theres leverage that we have, an enormous quality of money that actually belongs to the gov...

House. watch. >> the next 48 hours, america will be in control of most major airports in afghanistan. we will conduct rapid strike rescue missions until we have recovered and evacuated all of our citizens, allies and friend. any person that interfered with these operations will be killed. >> martha: i should have prefaced that by saying he presented that as what he would like president biden to say when he comes before the miles per hour people today about what were going to do now. quick though...

Established with the taliban was basically the first step, the first phase of an ongoing process. dealing with the taliban in negotiations is kind of set piece on that one. we had to get an agreement with the taliban to start the negotiations to bring the afghan government in, president ghani and his people. this did not end the way we expected. we thought we had some leverage and some opportunity to modify. as has been noted before, this was conditions based and there was not an opportunity to ...

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Or how was it not a mistake? >> i saw it a bit differently. i thought that the agreement we established with the taliban was basically the first step, the first phase of an ongoing process. dealing with the taliban in negotiations is kind of set piece on that one. we had to get an agreement with the taliban to start the negotiations to bring the afghan government in, president ghani and his people. this did not end the way we expected. we thought we had some leverage and some opportunity to modi...