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be there? that s my hope. it s very clear. we did the math, at the current rate of actions, it s going to take until mid september to move everybody, even if we re moving 20,000 people a day. we need to be moving 30,000 a day to meet an august 31st deadline. as impressive as that number is, they need to increase it by a third to hit august 31st, and i don t think they can do that. i think they have probably maximized the runway capability at kabul, so the reality is we do need more time. the president has to keep that beachhead open or it s going to come down to this. we re going to end up probably leaving not just behind a lot of our afghans, which is a guarantee at this point, we still do not have an evacuation plan for anyone outside of kabul, and that could be up to an another 50,000 people we could be leaving behind. if we don t do this well past august 31st, we don t get a time