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Two options. one is turn our backs on afghanistan. the second option is to stay engaged in afghanistan. the second one is where we achieve our interests. thank you for that. we have to go now to the state department briefing. i'm sorry we didn't have time to get to you colonel jacobson. >> as you heard from the president, that mission will not be deterred. precisely because of the bravery, the skill, the determination of all of those on the ground and, of course in no small part due to our u.s. military partners. i'll now turn to today and to our on going evacuation efforts. as you heard from ...

Remaining, i want to go to our press panel, courtney kube and mike memoli, and former defense adviser ash carter, and mark jacobson who is an assistant dean at syracuse university and also army colonel christopher colenda and the first american to have fought the taliban and engage them in high level diplomacy. welcome to the four of you. courtney, we know now that president's national security team is warning that another terror attack in kabul is likely. so how is the pentagon preparing right now? >> they're using the language not just that it's possible but that they expect more attempts. a...

Significant focus on afghanistan. you heard at the end there the preparation that's are underway for a potentially major hurricane bearing down on louisiana here. and then the on going fight against covid-19. this is a white house that is battling many battles on many fronts. >> yeah. absolutely. colonel christopher, i want to bring new on a point that mike memoli is making. what does this evacuation process look like after the end of the month? can the taliban be counted on to help facilitate that process? how would this work? >> i think first of all my heart goes out to the people who lost t...

0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and center and vital to the mission. >> one more, president biden told reporters in oval office when mee...

Of honor, colonel jacob is with us today. john mccain being a navy admiral and the grandson of a navy man as well and you see so many of his offsprings there have decided to dedicated their lives to military service. i know that you knew the senator, the mit telitary man h was. who is the john mccain that we don't know, colonel jacobson. there is so much that we have heard. has there been something that we don't know? >> he has been a public person for a long period of time. it is difficult to envision of what is not known about mccain. one of the things that's often glossed over is the fa ct ...