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CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell August 12, 2021 19:05:00

I just don t have the details here today. we absolutely anticipate being more involved in the air lift element of this mission. what about close air support? are you going to increase drones or fighter jets overhead to protect troops? yesterday we have and today we have the authority and capabilities in the region to conduct air strikes if needed. that s not going to change as a result of these new mission sets. does this mean the u.s. military withdrawal is not going to be complete by august 31st? again, what i said was we re aiming to facilitate the reduction of these civilian personnel by august 31st. so it s all lining up on the same timeline. i won t speculate about what the footprint is going to look like post august 31st because there s this additional mission set of helping process special immigrants. we re going to have to wait and see. but the drawdown itself is still ....

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MSNBC Ayman Mohyeldin Reports August 12, 2021 19:13:00

Operation. this is a mission to facilitate the safe and orderly departure of additional personnel from the state department and to help accelerate to help the state department colleagues accelerate the processing of siv applicants. we are not classifying this as an n.e.o. at this time. there s a certain irony here that the drawdown was for 2,500 troops and you re sending an additional 3,000 to get out civilians and ramping it up super quick. on top of that, another 3,500 in kuwait. i mean, what is the irony here? and for people who might be asking literally, isn t this ironic that in order to get out 2,500 you re having to ramp up significantly? i don t see i don t share your view of the irony, lui. this is a temporary mission for ....

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MSNBC Ayman Mohyeldin Reports August 12, 2021 19:24:00

all of that in addition to the 650 who are there. thanks, everybody. of the immigrants, though, is that just transportation, or are they helping processing their applications. really? all right, you were just listening to the pentagon spokesperson john kirby taking questions from reporters after the united states announced it s sending troops back the afghanistan in what u.s. officials are describing as a narrowly defined mission to help reduce the number of american personnel in the u.s. embassy there in kabul based on the deteriorating situation. as we mentioned we re following this breaking news on multiple fronts. just before the pentagon officials spoke, we heard from the state depp as well. we re going to wrap up all of that for you. the united states announced this drawdown in embassy personnel saying the department of defense will send in about 3,000 troops ....

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CNN CNN Newsroom With Ana Cabrera August 12, 2021 17:02:00

Sullivan. all about afghanistan. and this comes as we have reported that there have been ongoing discussions within the state department about a further drawdown of u.s. embassy personnel at the embassy in kabul. the safety of those diplomats and those contractors is essential here. and that is one thing that is under discussions right now. what is the biden administration going to do. now the state department issued an alert today, it is the second alert that they ve issued telling any american citizens that are in afghanistan to get out immediately. and we are also learning that the top u.s. diplomat at the embassy in kabul sent out a memo this morning, an internal memo saying to the state department that he thinks that they should consider adding more afghans to the number of evacuation flights out of the country because at assumption that those afghans who worked alongside the u.s. in ....

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CNN The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer August 12, 2021 21:03:00

Mission to help to help safeguard an orderly reduction of civilian personnel. i m not going to speculate beyond august 31st. our job here with this additional plusup is to help facilitate the civilian movement of personnel out of afghanistan and the president s been very clear that he wants that reduction complete by the end of august. reporter: kirby said the drawdown of military forces in afghanistan would still be complete by the end of the month but he wouldn t speculate on the additional troops going in clearly saying, at least from his position and the pentagon s position, they are not on a combat mission and leaving the door open to them staying longer as the drawdown of the embassy proceeds and as afghan interpreters and their families are brought out of country. in addition to those forces there will be 1,000 army and air force troops starting in qatar who will help as part of that afghan interpreter process of getting them through the visa applications and another 3,500 s ....

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