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Their word and give people safe passage out of afghanistan if they want to leave, but taliban is facing a major brain train right now. many of the highly educated best trained people in the country are trying to get out so there are reasons to be skeptical about whether the taliban will followthrough on that commitment. you mentioned 122,000 people have been air lifted. this is the largest air lift in u.s. military history. only a little more than 10% of them reached the u.s. so far. many more in places like here in doha waiting to find out their next moves. >> let's touch on the afghan allies...

Success leaving 80,000 sivs who worked alongside our troops behind. >> i can't verify the number and i can't tell you what the breakdown is right now between the more than 112,000, maybe more afghans that we were able to evacuate in the course of less than a couple of weeks. i can't give you the breakdown right now. i honestly can't. and what i will tell you is that obviously we wanted to get as many people out as we could and in the course of a short order of time 122,000, the largest airlift that the u.s. military has conducted, got 122,000 people to safety. now, there will be a time when th...

Safely, including evacuees. >> and then secondly, we have sources that say marines guarding the airport allowed relatives an extended family members of kabul embassy local staff, despite having -- not having documentation, but spouses and children of afghans who hold american citizenship were turned away there some cases. have you heard this as well and can you confirm this. >> i have not heard those reports and i cannot verify them. i will tell you that, without speaking to these reports, the mari marines and the soldiers that for the last couple of weeks have been helping counselor officers ...

>> going back, the force protection c ram did work and engage and had effect on the one and then one did land in an area. it was not effective. >> so it didn't -- >> we intercepted one and it was effective. c-ram was effective. >> i just need to clarify the numbers you stated earlier. of the 122,000, is the 5400 a part of that number of americans evacuated or is that a separate number from the 122,000? >> 122,000 plus evacuated over the course of this operation going back to late july when we started moving siv applicants back home and you add in the since then, yes, 5400 is included in 122,00...

U.s. military assess that the number of americans still in the country are only the ones that no longer want to leave, are they largely out now and it's our understanding the evacuation of afghans is largely complete also. so are you solely concentrating on just getting u.s. troops out and equipment? >> just go back total, 122,000 were evacuated, approximately 5,000400 americans. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end. as you talk about active working with the department of state on that and continue evacuation and military operations. >> refer to t...