CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell August 31, 2021 19:32:00
Partners and those afterbghans worked with us, i authorized 6,000 troops, american troops to kabul to help secure the airport. as general mckenzie said, this is the way the mission was designed. it was designed operate under severe stress and attack and that's what it did. since march, we reached out 19 times to americans in afghanistan, with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave afghanistan, all the way back as far as march. after we started the evacuation 17 days ago, we did initial outreach and analysis and identified around 5,000 americans who decided earlier to stay in afghanist...
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