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Afghannive holders, friends of america, vulnerable afghans and american citizens through? they kept the gates open and through heroic efforts they still managed to get several thousand more people out. but you can imagine every time you open that gate and had you to send a marine to pat down a woman wearing traditional dress. you don't know if there is a sue so wide bomb under there. so these commanders had to take a very difficult decision. they met with the president this morning at 0:00. and i think there was a realistic security threat against that airport. and you can understand we can't ...

Explosion when they were targeted by the stern, was a significant and imminent threat to the airport and was effectively on the way to the airport to conduct another suicide mission. ., ., ., ,., ., , mission. threat to the airport as the evacuation _ mission. threat to the airport as the evacuation effort _ mission. threat to the airport as the evacuation effort fair - the evacuation effort fair winds down, really. onlya the evacuation effort fair winds down, really. only a few hours left before the final deadline for the americans to get out by tomorrow, the 31st of august, and they were jus...

The u.s. and the u.s. military assess that the number of americans still in the country are only the ones that no longer want to leave or the ones who want to leave are they largely out now and the evacuation of afghan largely complete also. are you now solely concentrating on just getting u.s. troops out and equipment? >> just going back. total 122,000 were evacuated. approximately 5,400 americans. we continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out those until the very end but as you talk about active we'll continue to work with department of state on that and continue evacuation and ...

Let a lot of those people out of prisons and now they will be able to reap what they sowed. >> reporter: thank you. general mackenzie, tara cobb with defense fund. can you assure the american public that every single u.s. service member is now out of afghanistan? >> every single u.s. service member is now out of afghanistan. i can say that with 100% certainty. >> reporter: sir, really quickly just to clarify, you mentioned 123,000 out of afghanistan. earlier this morning we heard 122,000. can we assume that was 1,000 afghans that came out in some of these final flights? and then i have a quick...

General hasjust of american presence in afghanistan. general has just confirmed that an hour and a half ago 3:29pm eastern time before midnight in afghanistan that last c—17 left kabul airport on board major general chris donahue the commander of the 82nd airborne division, and the us ambassador to afghanistan ross wilson and together with all the afghan forces and help them protect the airport with their families and of course the civilian said they could reach in those final few hours. it brings un a 20 year mission for american forces in afghanistan and in that time 2461 us service member...