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Out safely, including evacuees. >> secondly, we have sources that say marines guarding the airport allowed relatives and extended members of kabul local embassy staff despite not having documentation but meanwhile spouses and afghans who hold american citizenship and legal permanent resident status were turned away. have you heard this as well and can you confirm that? >> i have not heard those reports and cannot verify them. i will tell you without speaking to these reports the marines and soldiers that have for the last couple of weeks been helping consular officers man these gates and help ...

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11:00 p.m., eastern time last night, as many saz five rockets were fired at the kabul airport. u.s. military forces successfully employed our force protection measures to thwart that attack. u.s. forces retained the inherent right of self defense and are authorized to meet threats with a swift and forceful response. force protection is paramount in this phase of the operation. over the weekend, and in today, evacuation operations continue. yesterday 26 u.s. military aircraft all c-17s departed with approximately 1,200 evacuees. in total, there were 28 flights out of kabul airport in the last 2...

One did land in an area that was not effective. >> you didn't intercept? >> yeah, we intercepted one and it was effective. >> i just want to clarify the numbers you stated earlier. about 122,000, is 5400 part of that number or is that a separate number? >> 122,000 plus evacuated over the course of this evacuation going back to late july. and when you add in what happened since then, yes, 5400 is included in the 22,000. >> of course i understand that you can't give us a update on

It or allow us to do us. note the word allow. >> bill: the pentagon started. this question may come up. >> u.s. military forces successfully employed force protection measures to thwart the attack. they retained the right of self-defense and are authorized to meet threats with a swift and forceful response. force protection is paramount in this phase of the operation. over the weekend and into today evacuation operations continued. yesterday 26 u.s. military aircraft all c-17s departed with approximately 1,200 evacuees. in total, there were 28 flights out of kabul airport in the last 24 hours ...