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Airport. if i'm framing this right but there's been since i heard from you and others in the administration that the taliban has met its commitment to allow people with the right papers onto the airport. can you help americans that are seeing and what seems to be a disconnect between these two different statements? what is happening? >> first, let me say i wouldn't see it as a disconnect. that does mean that a great number of people are making their way into the airport and onto flights to evacuate from the country. there are certainly cases and

With. if it doesn't, we will make sure that we use every appropriate tool at our disposal to isolate that government and, as i said before, afghanistan will be a pariah. >> what will happen on september 1? will the u.s. keep any diplomatic and/or any other kind of presence in kabul at all and who will run the airport? is there any discussions with the turks with the military withdrawal? >> thanks. there are very active efforts underway on the part of regional countries to see whether they can play a role in keeping the airport open once our military

Going to want to do that. if not, we're going to have a -- >> martha: yeah. okay. 114 countries, allies, all got together to impress upon the taliban that they better let people out. so let's hope that they were listening. let's go to jen psaki and listen to some of the q&a focused on afghanistan as well. if you stick around, that would be great. >> what seems to be a disconnect between the statements? what is happen something. >> first, let me say, i wouldn't see it as a disconnect. let me explain why. i noted earlier, we put out earlier today, 19,000 people were evacuated. the vast majority ...

Forward. they will make their own determinations. >> thank you. the taliban right now focusing on the mission right now are not living up to their commitments. people are being stopped trying to get into the airport. i'm talk about women, sivs, others, afghans. people with papers and being stopped outside the airport now. there are total bottlenecks. some people have private planes watsing for them with landing rights but can't get into the airport as well as beyond the sivs there are lawyers, judges, women. we told them for 20 years, you can live up to your potential and now they feel abandon...

Takes responsibility. i know all of my colleagues across government feel the same way. i can tell you that there will be plenty of time to look back at the last six or seven months, to look back at the last 20 years and to look to see what we might have done differently. what we might have done sooner what we might have done more effectively. i have to tell you right now my entire focus is on the mission at hand. there's going to be as i said plenty of time to do an accounting of this when we get through that mission. >> thank you. could you speak today about the future of the u.s. embassy in ...