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Education and took positions representing their government. that is not a future that women and afghanistan can look forward to under a taliban rule. the taliban is saying that the measures in place now that women cannot go back to school or go into the workplace or temporarily until they get the security environment more in place, that was set in 1996 and obviously that was permanent until the u.s. invasion in 2001. so what we really have to -- what we have to look forward to here, martha, what...

Any form of payment or assistance to the taliban to expedite the evacuation of americans as the security environment in kabul deteriorated? >> no, we did not. what we did was we asked the taliban to establish a cordon 1 kilometer beyond each of the gates where we could reduce number of people coming down and showing up at the gates so we wouldnt have the possibility of a mass attack. they were not compensated in any way for that. it was a very pragmatic business-like discussion. i dont trust the...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...

Open to the public. some of that has to do with covid-19. some of it has to do with the current security environment we have. but both congress and senate were clear to us the plan you give to us must be what people can walk back up to the capitol. they didnt put enough money into supplemental to security capitol, get enough ploufrz and they didnt put enough money to harden the capitol so the public will have access again let alone the protesters and domestic terrorists in a are coming to town. ...

Thank you for allotting so much time and taking every single question posed to you. i want to first maybe just pick up what my friend and colleague asked. could you characterize the americans that are still there? i know there are a lot of them that didnt necessarily want to come back. theres a whole array of different reasons. could you give us a better understanding of those that have remained and what their circumstances are. >> certainly. senator, as weve noted, starting back in march, we is...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i dont know who youre talking to. but if youre talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if youre talking honestly ...

Way as we move along and we grieve with the families of all who were loss. >> bill: the end of august now as you know, did anyone at the pentagon ask the white house for more time? >> there was very deliberate discussion inside the national security team about the timeline we were on and the president made it very clear that he wanted us to look at contingency planning in case we needed to go beyond that. we made calculations all the way up to the end. bill, in the last 48 hours alone before we ...

We know, with additional american citizens. again, given the tense security environment were dealing with i think it would be better to not talk about it much more than that but they are in contact. >> will flights continue on the 31st? >> i wont get ahead of the actual operational schedule, courtney. not going to do that. >> a little bit more on the continuing strike from isis-k. after the u.s. is completely out on the 31st will you coordinate with the taliban or give them notice if you plan to...

American citizens. again, given the tense security environment that were dealing with, i think im just going to, i think it is would be better not to talk about it much more than that. but they are in contact. >> -- flights will continue tomorrow on the 31st. >> im not going to get ahead of the actual operational schedule c , courtney. im not going to do that. >> and more on the continuing strike from isis-k. after the u.s. is out on the 31st, will you coordinate with the taliban or give them no...

Security— citizens again, given the ten security environment that we are dealing _ security environment that we are dealing with i think it would be better— dealing with i think it would be better to — dealing with i think it would be better to just dealing with i think it would be better tojust not talk dealing with i think it would be better to just not talk about it much — better to just not talk about it much more than that but they are in contact _ much more than that but they are i...