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Kuwait. that's roughly 3,500 to 4,000. >> that's in addition to the 650 there. >> that's correct. thanks, everybody. >> is that just transportation or -- >> martha: breaking news as we have watched this on "the story." we just learned that the rapid deceleration and disintegration of the security situation in afghanistan where the taliban has taken over 2/3s of the country and a lot of questions about whether or not kabul and kandahar can hold at this point. so now we see we'll be sending 3,000 more -- more than 3,000 additional troops to afghanistan in order to security the draw down of the u...

Of the reduction of civilian personnel out of the embassy to help facilitate their departure from the country, to also help with the process of moving special immigrant visa applicants out of the country and provide additional security at the airport. we believe this is a prudent measure given the security situation. >> you're moving a lot of people. what is -- can you give any better sense of day-to-day, what are they doing? sounds like they're -- that number of people, they must be responsible for getting people -- sounds like they're taking over security at the airport. >> i wouldn't go tha...

An american, if you scared an american or hurt an american, we would bring all american power to bear to make sure that we went to your house. we were very clear about the things that we were prepared to do to protect american lives. there wasn't a single american killed by the taliban when that was doing on. we had established a deterrence model. i hope we haven't lost that. we had began the reduction the operations in hour embassy. i ordered a draw down that took place. we were continuing to reduce our risk and our footprint there. hope that they continue down that path. i hope we're in a pl...

Of the american embassy in a makeshift helicopter landing zone to get them out as the communist north vietnamese was surrounding the embassy. we're in the same position now. >> martha: k.t., thanks very much. we're also working to get secretary of state mike pompeo on the phone. big picture, difficult week for the biden white house. you have covid, inflation, what's going on at the border, the department of security head is there right now and now this to pile on. they have a lot on their plate. >> they do. the politics of this are not good for any administration. it's the administration that ...

Make it clear to them that we'll be ready to help as needed. >> thank you. >> let's see. dan. >> thank you. can you clarify how this doesn't classify as a neo and regardless of that, can you at least make it clear that if a neo is needed because the -- it speeds up, you have everything in place? >> the purpose is to help with the reduction of the civilian out of the embassy. that's not the same thing as a neo. you're moving a massive amount of people who, you know, aren't necessarily u.s. government employees. it's a different operation altogether. we're not there. the other thing that we're g...