do you have anything more specific? are people traveling with passports or other kind of documentation and is that why you can t answer that question more specifically? again, the reason we can t give you a precise number is because not every american who comes into afghanistan goes and puts themselves in a database at the u.s. embassy. they don t have to. many of them choose not to. so, it s our responsibility to put out the call to every means we know how, try to work through to get in contact with them and ultimately build as credible a list as we can of folks who are holding those passports so that we can bring them to the airport. number of americans who are in afghanistan waiting to get out. how many americans have you so far taking out? we can get you the precise number on that. jake, one, just a clarification. you had said that all americans in kabul who want to get out can get out. did you mean kabul or did you mean the entire country? and second, one of the things t
been a few a few thousand americans who have already been evacuated, and we are working on the rest. people traveling with passports and other kinds of documentation, is that why you cannot answer that question more specifically? jake: the reason we cannot give you a precise number is because not every american goes and puts themselves in a database. they don t have to. many of them she is not to you, so it is our responsibility to put out the call to every means we know how. try to get into contact with them. ultimately billed as credible of a list as we can of folks holding those passport so that we can bring them to the airport and get out. how many americans have you so far taken? jake: we cannot mention a precise number on that. you had said that all americans in kabul who want to get out. did you mean kabul, or did you
not? that s what i tried to get a answer to and i didn t get an answer to it frankly here today. it seems right now they are focusing on getting the american citizens through the checkpoints. peter bake, you cover the white house, do you get a sense with anybody you re talking to that they will be prepared to extend the deadline from august 31st because general milley said this several times, evacuate all americans, so he made clear the mission is not necessarily tied to a timeline given the fact that if it s going to take longer than august 31st and he s committed to that. is the white house making the same commitment in saying we ll stay on the ground as long as it takes to get everyone that we want out? yeah. the white house has not made that commitment. i think they are reluctant to. they don t have to. obviously we ve got nearly two weeks until then. they may wait to see how things shape up in the next couple of days before they feel the need to address that directly, but you
you hear this? do you think senator paul has a point, that it s just a double standard or does the context of his ridicule of masks matter? he needs to stop whining and start worrying about public health. he s got 7,394 people in his great common wealth of kentucky that died from covid. the vaccine rate in his commonwealth is lower than the national average. he should be preaching protection, prevention, wear a mask, get vaccinated. and instead, he s endangering the public health and violating the terms of service of a private company that is not a free speech issue because it s not the government. he doesn t have a right to get on youtube any more that i have a right to get on cnn. it s a private company. if youtube wants to have him, they can, if they don t, they don t have to. this is very, very dangerous trying to tell people not to protect themselves and their neighbors and children. all right. thank you both very much.
this governor is sending misinformation across our state and not taking it seriously. i asked him to declare a state of emergency but instead he s blaming everybody but himself of what s happening in his state. what do you say to his argument that the information is out there, people have been living through this for a long time as adults and if they want to put a mask they can choose to and if they don t, they don t have to. what s your response to that especially for people in florida who may assess both of you? . my answer is simple. be a leader, ron, encourage people to get vaccinated and wear a mask. these are the individuals and these are the organizations in government that stepped up last year to get us through the first round of the pandemic. now he s taking away power from those individuals and those