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We are committed to deal with you, your wife, and your child to get all three of you out of afghanistan. thats the commitment. >> thank you, sir. >> meredith lee of pbs "newshour." >> thank you, mr. president. you mentioned just now using every resource available for evacuations. why havent you ordered the military to expand the security perimeter around the kabul airport? do you have any plans to do so, given that will likely require more u.s. troops, and are you considering rescue operations t...

We talked yesterday about overwatch flights over kabul. that is to make sure that were ready if we need to defend ourselves. im not going to get into potential future operations. im not going to speculate or when or what conditions we might expand the security perimeter that were working with there. the president is absolutely right. an expansion does incur extra risk. you have to balance risk versus gain in every particular military operation youre conducting. that will be no different for this...

Can do to get you there. we have got to get you out. we are committed to deal with you, your wife, and your children to get all three of yo out of afghanistan. that is the commitment. meredith lee. >> you mentioned just now using every resource available for evacuations, why havent you ordered the military to expand the security perimeter around the airport? you have any plans to do so tha will likely require more u.s. troops, and are you considering rescue operations to recover americans and af...

Eight hours. since she has been on the airfield. joining me now is retired general wesley clark, a former sum ream allied commander and a cnn military analyst. thank you for being here. your reaction, clarissa said that since shes been on the airfield shes not seen a flight take off. they are not moving people on to these planes like they need to be in the last eight hours. what is your assessment of what is going on? >> well, i think the military has done about as much as it could in getting in...

We are committed to deal with you and your wife and your child to get all three of you out of afghanistan. that is the commitment. >> thank you, sir. >> meredith lee of pbs newshour. >> you mentioned just now of using every resource available for evacuation, and why havent you ordered the military to expand a security perimeter around the kabul airport and do you have any plans to do that given more military troops and are you plans to have rescue troops to get the allies stuck behind the taliba...

0 . the pullout has been a whole different story. >> a special thank you to all o our guests that have joined us in our amazing reporters with their first-hand stories covering afghanistan over that decades. >> the best in the business. >> continuing coverage on the fox news channel. the story with martha mac callum start right now. >> what annout standing middle east team we have and the coverage over the years brings something to this story that i dont think youll find anywhere else. good afte...

Morning an afghan interpreter for the u.s. military who managed to get out, sent a picture of him and his family inside the airport hanger. so there are cases of it. but when you think that you need potentially to evacuate tens of thousands of people, 50, 60,000 people, a trickle managing to get in everyday is just not going to cut it. this system is broken. and it needs to be reworked. >> and were seeing actually a picture of a video where children, a baby, is being passed forward toward the se...

Security perimeter beyond the airport, establish some corridors to allow safe k passage and make sure were transporting american citizens first and foremost but also our afghan partners and allies and get them out. we have tens of thousands of folks that we need to get out. thats not going to happen overnight. but we have to make the commitment to do that. and i dont think we set a calendar deadline. i think we do it as long as we need to do it to get it done. >> you said establish corridors, th...

Combat tours in afghanistan as an army ranger. theyre obviously an extremely brutal and immoral group of folks. thats why we have to do whats necessary and take total control of that airport, extend the security perimeter beyond the airport, establish some corridors to allow safe passage and make sure were transporting american citizens first and foremost but also our afghan partners and allies and get them out. we have tens of thousands of folks we need to get out. thats not going to happen ove...

Fell by weight or political bargaining and a deal, not by way of arms. bargaining and a deal, not by way of arms-— bargaining and a deal, not by way of arms. you talk about it as a political— way of arms. you talk about it as a political solution, - as a political solution, goodness me, we have seen the pictures at kabul airport, people trying to hang on to the views are large of an aeroplane and full to their death in a process, thats no solution of any sort, is it? it process, thats no sol...