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Evacuate american citizens. third country civilians, afghan allies, in vulnerable afghans. want to provide the american people with a brief update on the situation in afghanistan. since i spoke to you on monday, we have made significant progress. we've secured the airport. enabling flights to resume. not just military flights, but civilian charters from other countries and ngos taking out civilian in vulnerable afghan people. now we have almost 6,000 troops on the ground including the 82n airborne camera providing runwa security, the army tenth mountain division standing guar or on the airport...

Afghans. we want to provide the american people with a brief update on the situation in afghanistan. since i spoke to on monday, we have made significant progress. we have secured the airport, enabling flights to resume. notjust military flights, but civilian charters and from other countries and the ngos taking out civilians and vulnerable afghan civilians. we now have almost 6000 troops on the ground, including the 82nd airborne, providing runway security. the army tenth mountain division standing guard around the airport. the 24th marine expedition units the billing —— assisting in the ...

Civilians, afghan allies and vulnerable afghans. and i want to provide the american people with a brief update on the situation in afghanistan. since i spoke to you on monday, we've made significant progress. we've secured the airport, enabling flights to resume. not just military flights but civilian charters from other countries and the ngos taking out civilians and vulnerable afghanis. and now we have almost 6,000 troops on the ground, including the 82nd airborne, providing runway security, the army 10th mountain division standing guard around the airport, and the 24th marine expeditionly u...

With you, hopefully there's clarity today. >> one of the challenges that come along with confusion or even just explaining to the american public about what the booster means is the fear it could undercut efforts in getting the tens of millions of americans who are still resistant in getting the first shot, to go out and get that shot. do you hear concern among officials about that? >> i do. this was a big topic of discussion in my background conversations i had with people at the highest levels here. this is something we talked about a bit. will the message now seem to people that you're real...

The latest in afghanistan. >> what we do here. and planning for these sorts of contingencies is not unusual. in fact, it's quite common. and one of the reasons why we have been able to react as quickly as we did in just the last day or so is because we had plenty of contingency planning in the works and in fact, a lot of it complete, because we were, and as i've said many times from the podium, watching consistently the security situation on the ground. so, i can give you a brief update, a few additional details since yesterday. now, as i do this, i think you can understand that i'm not going ...