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Are, and do they see them as a threat. another part is it all about how that continues after the 31st, it all hinges on the airport. there is an effort to get the airport under way and they would like the turks to take over that airport. turkey is having some reservations about it. so there is ongoing negotiations to get that airport open. then you have to get them visas and safe passage. the taliban spokesman said if they have visas, they can have passports and they can go. some of that evacuation process may be a visa issuing process. saying taliban if you want to be recognized international...

>> well, remarkably, people are still getting into the airport. mostly by relatively covert means it would appear. because there's still about 4,000 people there waiting for flights out. 12,500 people were moved out around the terrorist attack that killed 13 americans and at least 170 other people according to the afghan ministry of health. among those dead now confirmed by british authorities, two british citizens and the child of a british national, too. the number of dead is now including foreign civilians as well as foreign troops. still, there was still an enormous evacuation process that...

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...

This means for the evacuation process as this operation winds down right now? >> jeff, you hear the swhous preparing for the end of one phase here, the military drawdown ahead of that august 31st deadline. and then eventual transition to much more uncertainty on many levels what happens without the u.s. military presence when trying to get out any americans and afghan partners that remain. in terms of the former, the drawdown of the military presence, this is a very sensitive period. you heard that from a number of officials both at the white house and the pentagon. you heard the white house p...

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...