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Evacuate about 5,000 people. we heard from pentagon press secretary john kirby this morning, he gave an update and explained they're hoping to get even more out than that each day. here's what he had to say. >> just on the military craft alone, we believe we can get between 5 and 9,000 out per day. weather dependent, security dependent. that's just the military side. we want the civilian side of the airport to remain open as well so commercial flights can and are now able to get themselves in and out as well as charter aircraft. i am just talking about the military side, we can move thousands ...

Are you confident you can get all out on august 31st? >> we're confident we'll maximize capacity to the degree that we can and max capacity as the general said given what could be more than two dozen sorties per day, could you get to 5,000 to 9,000 out per day. our focus is on making sure the environment, conditions are set to be able to do that. as i said the other day, airlift is not a limiting factor but it is also going to require and has required constant elayson with our state department colleagues who are obviously in charge of administering the special immigrant visa process and other ...

The intelligence briefings didn't necessarily convey to the president or at least the administration and the white house didn't act on, and there's also a concern of this as you mentioned the humanitarian crisis, definitely a two-track concern at the moment that why the administration did not listen to the outside humanitarian groups who have been agitating the administration for months now to speed up the special immigrant visa process, which has always taken a very long time and start that in may when biden first announced the plan to withdraw by the end of september, and get that going as e...

>> what we are confident is that we're going to maximize capacity to the degree that we can. and that at max capacity as the general said, given what could be more than two dozen sorties per day, you could get to 5,000 to 9,000 people out per day. our focus is on again making sure that the environment that the conditions are set to be able to do that. as i said the other day, airlift is not a limited factor. but it also will require and has required constant liaison with our state department colleagues who are obviously in charge of administering the special immigrant visa process and the othe...

31st you can get all those people out or is that uncertain? >> we're confident we'll maximize capacity to the degree that we can. and that at max capacity as the general said given what could be more than two dozen flights per day you could get 5,000 to 9,000 people out a day. our focus is making sure the environment and conditions are set to be able to do that. as i said the other day, airlift won't be a limiting factor but require and has required constantly liaison with our state department colleagues who are obviously in charge of administering the special immigrant visa process and other ...