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The decision the helicopter be abandoned and detonated so it could be destroyed in place. so, moving forward, i m sure you got lots of questions. i ll do the best i can to answer them. i want to remind this is an operation not yet 24 hours old. so, while we provide as much context as we can, i suspect, as you ve covered these things before, that we ll learn more information as time goes on. we re still reviewing the results of the operation. we re still going through the after action process that we always do and we ll do the best we can to provide you as much contect. i also would add, and i m saying this as a bit of a disclaimer here, that there are still operational security matters that we re not going to be able to speak to. we obviously take these kinds of missions very seriously. we want to be able to copt to conduct these kinds of ....
Quickly. it was always going to be moving 5,000 people a day. what is it when president joe biden said u.s. military went over the wall to kabul international airport to help get 169 americans. what does it mean to go over the wall? is it resources going beyond the airport or just picking out 169 americans out of the crowd to get them out of the thousands we have seen outside the airport and bring them inside, just to speed the process of americans. that is the priority of the u.s. military at this point. biden putting an emphasis on getting afghans out as well. they are having much more trouble getting through taliban check points. that s something the u.s. government is trying to work with the taliban on and the lines of communication many the ground on kabul to try to speed that up. this is very far from a perfect process as you see the crowds there. the chaos, we hear the gunfire from videos we have seen. there s a lot of work to go before this process is moving ....
Conveying? i think the continued regular talks at the tpc at that level, those things continue. you heard reported earlier in the week about centcom commander having communications. centcom has other military channels open that there is continuous at that level. then at the tactical level, as with he speak, you know, at the two star level, those type of talks happen. these are the discussions that are thoopg allow the further increase of information to the checkpoints who have needs to come through, what passes look like, you know, what are the right credentials to get through? who needs to come? and then, you know, at the lowest tactical level, those other discussions, of course, those are always i would say probably a little harder buchlt those are happening. general millie the other day talking about the after action process will continue. you know, now is not the time to ....
Regular talks at the tpc at that level. those things continue. you heard reports earlier in the week about having communications. there s other military channels open that there s continuous at that level . what are the right credentialing? who needs to come? at the lowest tactical level the other discussions. those are always, i would say probably a little harder. those are happening. making sure that what needs to be communicated is done. general milley the other day talked about the after action ....
The decision was made to complete the draw down. obviously, we re still going to maintain an over watch vigilance with respect to counter terrorism threat and if we need to, we ll take action to eliminate and defeat that threat. you just said you don t have intelligence on the ground in afghanistan. how will you have over watch? what i said is we don t have the degree of dexterity to give you a led head count, a nose co. nobody is walking away from the fact they aren t there. we re going to maintain as much as vigilance as we can absence a presence on the ground. the other thing i would say is our intelligence capability is more difficult if you don t have boots on the ground but we have come a long way since 9/11 in terms of the way we collect, process, analyze and distribute ....