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Saying how important it would have been to reopen bagram in order for this evacuation to have more safely taken place. you're talking about congressional oversight of decisions that were made that led to this deadly day and perhaps god forbid, more. why do you think that decision was ultimately made to close down that air base? you've had a lot of time to think about this. >> it's a question that everybody is asking and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever from a force protection standpoint. the people who drove into the gate yesterday, 170 dead, they had a short pathway from the gate and k...

This mission, to saving lives, to evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing their mission by the 31st. what it will mean as they move to this retrograde phase, reduction in numbers over the next couple days. we have been putting out numbers twice a day, so you can see how we are evacuating people out of the country. those numbers will go down in the next couple days and you should anticipate that. that is as result of the retrograde process that needs to take place, but also i will note force protection is front and center and vial to the mission. >> one more,...

Complications that would come if the president does decide to leave some of those forces or move them to eastern syria and leave them there. "the new york times" outlines some of that. can you just talk about what the potential problems with that may be? >> sure. you know, from a force protection standpoint, poppy, what you're looking at here is increased risk to american troops that are stationed in that region. you know, you've got all of these different vying factions in syria and the syrian civil war. you have isis. you have all of these potentials for a resurgent terrorist group there, as...