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that is expected to start any minute now. well bring you that as soon as it begins. plus, the polarizing plea deal for the presidents son. republicans blasting the agreement that lets hunter biden avoid jail time as a slap on the wrist. but some legal experts suggest that if his last name wasnt biden, he might never have faced charges in the first place. and this deal was announced just about half an hour after we learned donald trumps court date. now less than eight weeks away. do...

Unified command is working through that to prioritize what equipment we can get there. there are ongoing operations right now via the u.s. navy to get equipment staged in st. johns and get it on scene. i cant give you an exact timeline of when that is going to happen. what i can tell you is there is a full press, full court press effort to get equipment on scene as quickly as we can. >> equipment already on the east coast, though, or coming from the pacific, for example? >> no, so some of the eq...

Right now via the u.s. navy and trans com to get equipment and get it on scene. i cant give you an exact time line of when thats going to happen. what i can tell you is there is a full press effort to get equipment on scene as quickly as we can. >> is it already on the east coast, or sit coming from the pacific? >> some of the equipment thats coming is coming from the east coast, but were talking about very heavy equipment. its a complicated transport situation, but the best professionals in the...

There as well. there is a number of pieces going out there. logistically it is easier. >> what about trans com organizing the different assets available? [ inaudible ] is there one on the way? >> i dont know the answer to that one. i know a lot of the questions are unanswered. were not the right agency to be asking that. we should be the one to give you the answer to you, but we want you to hear it from the subject matter experts. thats our next plan is get an opportunity for you all to have to ...

Getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them? >> i will talk to you about just bottlenecks. i talked a little bit about that earlier. as we -- those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or centcom, thats the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased through-put, increased that number that they are able to h...

Because there is nowhere to receive them. >> ill talk about just bottlenecks and i think i talked about that earlier. as we -- those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or cent com aor, we are ensuring that we place evacuees in one of the 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck sos that our increased through-put, increase that number that theyre able to hold there, cent come and u com are continuing to coordinate together and with the joints staff in trans com of where to ...

>> the ability to continue through-put is very important. so as we look at airfield operations and the ability to get aircraft landed safely, immediately in and loaded and that drives a lot of what we would call time on ground to maximize the amount of evacuees we can get out. as you saw in the last day the numbers, that required as you just said aircraft on average to be ground less than an hour, which is very quick. i do know that trans com and commanders on the ground who are facilitating tha...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and thats what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go bac...

Thats put together of who is on those aircraft and that decision is made of where that, you know, could go to. lets say some flights were going into qatar and taking some there so that afghans could be held there temporarily and then waiting for other flights to go -- what were trying to do is keep the airflow thats in the theater, right, from having to go far, that continue to drop people off to allow other flights to take from qatar forward to, for instance, into dulles. so, you know, we -- de...

Those aircraft, then a decision is made where to go. lets say some flights were going into cutter, so that afghans could then be held there, you know, temporarily, and then waiting for other flights to go. so were trying to keep the air flow thats in the theatre from having to go far, continue to drop people off to allow other flights to take from cutter forward to, for instance, dulles. so it depends on how many folks we have, is it a full flight of siv, is it other afghans, is it american. so ...