from either the host nation government, support of the host nation military. you don't quite know where the people are that you aare extracting and the focus several times was placed on the american citizens versus the siv. but that is the primary mission as sad as that sounds. and the question that some of the reporters were asking about the disconnects between what they are seeing by some reporters on the ground like our great clarissa ward also was being said in the conference, there were some definite disconnects, that is for sure. >> so jim, on that question that the general just brought up, the potential for going out to collect americans, secretary austin said that they don't have the capability right now to go out and get people. we don't know where these 10,000 to 15,000 americans are. is it possible that they are in kandahar, that there are americans in herat hundreds of miles away? >> it is absolutely possible.