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Because they'll be killed if they're left behind. >> neil: so they're trapped. >> they're trapped. that being saved, the military and -- the military has been trying to get many of them out and are trying to push the system as much as possible. we've seen heroic efforts behind the scene. the numbers are great. with the state department process changing today to require vetting to be done on the ground at the airport in kabul, it's going to make it very difficult to keep that pipeline moving. >> neil: jennifer, thanks for that. now to mark meredith at the white house. the process alone, if it's...

National security advisinger talking. perhaps they're trying to do this a day at a time. we'll see what tomorrow brings. neil? >> neil: thanks, mark. the g-7 leaders including those in germany and britain and france have been critical of the u.s. refusal to go beyond the perimeter around the airport. let's go to general jerry boykin, former undersecretary of defense. general, this strategy of being careful about who we process to get out of the country, they have to have the proper paperwork. i get that. it's slowing things down. then there's this deadline to get it done by the 31st. 94 the ta...

Through-put at hamed karzai airport. we think that we'll be able to continue to try to improve that. that is the goal. >> neil, we heard reporters press the state department's spokesman because there's now reports on the ground that the state department is being sticklers about whether you have been vetted, whether you filled out the siv paperwork. so that 18,000 that cleared out of the airport, they're now going to have a slower through-put in to the airport to get on the military planes which are landing one per hour and taking off within an hour. it's hard to keep up the pace of what they d...

We'll have special guests to see how we take it from here. >> many of -- if not all of our engaged staff were not present on the embassy compound. they were working remotely given the volatile security situation. many of them were at home were not at work. i can tell you that we have been able to relocate members of our staff. they were not brought to the airport's compound with the americans direct hires because they weren't at the embassy compound by and large that day. >> i've been told at the airport military has been complaining about bureaucracy from dhs, customs and border patrol, and s...

That we can speed and accelerated the processes consist about the -- >> surging resources doesn't answer the question. why not do this at the third country. surge them there and get them out of kabul where they can have better facilities, sanitation, food, et cetera? >> that vetting by and large is taking place at these third countries. when it comes to sizs, again, all of those that have received instructions to come to the airport have already completed certain stages of the security vetting process. so that initial vet on these individuals has been completed. in many cases they're taken to ...