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0 admiral and the general aren't working in in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go another one on the phone. tara. >> thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned also that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans haven't gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain kind of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out after the 31st if they haven't made it to the airport by then? and then just to follow on jeff's ques...

To get through the gates. if you're somebody called by the embassy, an american citizen who has authorization, has the ability to get through the gate but there's a mile or two of people backed up, you can't get through. adding to that is the security concern. we saw the first elements of that thursday when there was a group of americans trying to get to the abby gate on one side of the military side of the airport. they couldn't get through because of crowds. u.s. military had to send in helicopters to pick them up from the hotel nearby. that was because it wasn't even just because of the lar...

Really familiar with kabul airport but there is a hotel that's literally maybe 100, maybe 200 meters away from the -- one of the gates called the abby gate. it is the barron hotel. they were able to pick these individuals up and literally hop them, it is a very short hop via chinook helicopter into kabul airport. the reason being i guess these individuals all met at the barron and they were going to get some sort of access into the abby gate, but in the interim before they were able to get to the gate a large crowd of people, afghans -- it is not really clear who it was, but i guess there was ...

Going, namely in doha, qatar. now there are other locations in the region and in europe where some of these flights are able to go. but some of the other narratives, the other things that we heard at today's pentagon briefing include the security threat in kabul. you played some of that sound from john kirby. the u.s. embassy in kabul, now located out of the airport, issued a warning telling u.s. citizens do not come to the airport right now because of the security situation, and we've been trying to get to the bottom of exactly what that is. we know now that there was an issue with a number o...

Their families, trying to get in to get out on an evacuation flight. the concern though is could others like isis, potential isis k fighters be mixing among them and presenting some kind of security threat. we have already seen one case where the military has acted because of a potential threat just like this. that was on thursday. thursday afternoon there was a group of about 169 americans who were gathered at the barron hotel just outside the airport, right near the military side of the airport. they could not safely get to the abby gate which is nearby. you can actually run it, it is that c...