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First as you heard from my counterpart at the pentagon this morning, 12c17s departed in the last 24 hours with more than 2,000 passengers who arrived at safe haven. since august 14th with your left at seven evacuees. i can also confirm there were 6,000 people at the airport right now who have been fully processed by our team and will soon board the planes. overnight we significantly expanded how many american citizens, locally employed staff, siv applicants and others who are available for departure. we are aware of congestion around the airport and we are working closely with the department o...

>> we don't have the capability to go out and collect large numbers of people. >> so it sounds like you are saying this depends on diplomacy for the taliban, and that's it, that's the only option is getting them to agree to this? >> let me add something here. we had a couple of entry control point set it up, and a third one at abbey gate. >> the pentagon told us the u.s. military evacuated 2,000 people in the past 24 hours but the u.s. military has a capacity to fly out between five and 8,000 people per day. 12c17s took off with about 180 people per flight in the last 24 hours, far fewer than ...