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There was no imaccurate withdrawal ever possible and the military deserves credit for what they've done. >> harris: sure, it would never be perfect. our military personnel having to carry out orders that started with, you know, all sorts of difficulties because of the way that this thing was launched and they have done a tremendous job getting 122,000 people off the ground and airlifted out of basically a continued war zone of afghanistan. i am curious to know now, though, because it looks like we're fighting our way out. what does it look like for the last men and women left on that field? >>...

Considerably in terms of those evacuated in the last 24 hours. and we see this ongoing threat from isis. what are you hearing about what the situation looks like on the ground in kabul right now? >> reporter: yeah, i mean, very lim limited information about what is happening in the airport. and you heard john kirby not answering questions about posture and flowing of individuals an even the deadline whether that would kick in, between the 30th or the 31st and citing operational security reasons, understandable given the environment that they're facing at the airport but it does mean that this ...

Stream, is that changing your view on the deadline? >> well, i know that the secretary of state tony blinken in answer to one of the questions i had for him during one of our briefings said that our goal of getting as many u.s. -- the rest of the u.s. citizens as well as our afghan partners and their families and afghans at risk out of afghanistan does not end on august 31st. so we will continue to use everything in our means in order to enable these people to get out, but i do know that 122,000 people were able to be evacuated. i think that is -- that is a tremendous thing that our military a...

Worked alongside our troops behind? >> carla, i can't verify the math and what the breakdown is 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. 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 very short order of time, 122,000, the largest airlift the u.s. military has conducted got 122,000 people to safety. now, there will be a time when this is complete, that the state department can do the math...

Answer the question about whether the taliban -- you said you weren't going to talk about who was at what gate. but are the taliban on the airport? >> not to my knowledge, they are not. no. >> thank you. i have a few today. sorry. you mentioned 122,000 have been evacuated. how many of those are sivs and their families? >> i don't have a good breakdown of how many in the 122,000 are sivs and their families. that is a better question for the state department. we know that roughly 5,400 of the 122,000 are american citizens. and the vast majority are afghan and i just don't have a break down of th...