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Weeks, since august 14, to thousands upon thousands of sivs. those are principle applicants as well as their family members. this applies to all of the categories that you run through. in the context of this massive unprecedented evacuation effort, our first goal is to have bring as many people to safety as quick as possible. in many cases, we are going to be in a better position to provide the fidelity on numbers in the coming days and coming weeks as this process has been ongoing, our goal is to put as many people on as many planes as we can. the accounting we'll be able to do in more detail...

This is the scene live in kabul airport. figures reported by reuters that have come from the white house, the latest figures on the number of people airlifted from afghanistan. 12,500 people have been brought from afghanistan on thursday and that raises the total since august 14 to around 105,000 people airlifted from afghanistan. that has come from the white house according to reuters. as you can see on your screen that is the scene live from kabul airport. we will return to that with any latest news from there. with the evacuation efforts by air

When it comes to lawful permanent residents, we have messaged to lprs in afghanistan since august 14. when we provided specific instructions to american citizens and also provided an opportunity for lprs to indicate their interest in relocating to the united states. so again, we don't have precise figures to provide on that right now. i would offer the same when it comes to the other categories, p1s, p2s. we moved the vast majority of our locally engaged staff members to the kabul airport. >> on the negotiations over both a possible ongoing continuing diplomatic presence after tuesday and the ...

Abandon, so that i can have more hours for humanitarian versus military. we started a long evacuation for our military, and that was eating into too many days, so i took a decision when i was given advice by myjoint commander that he could concertina those hours but there would be a certain cost to that. i said yes, let's do it. every 24 hours matters to get out. we should not underestimate the significance of the achievement. i wish the environment it was in was much better, but overall we have taken out, since this thing started, bidding in august 14, we have taken out nearly 8000 the interp...

>> the question is that the airport evacuation obviously disorganized, criticized even by democrats. is there a plan behind president biden's commitment to evacuate remaining americans? >> the fact we have evacuated more than 105,000 people including -- i can give you the latest numbers which i know the state department is giving or about to give. of those evacuated since august 14, at least 5100 u.s. citizens, likely more. confirmation within the last day more than 300 additional americans evacuated. approximately 500 american citizens currently working with who want to leave and communicatin...