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This is a specific tailored miss to help with the safe and secured movement of the reduction of civilian personnel in kabul as well as to help support the acceleration of the special immigrant visa process. as we get more information i will provide it with the understanding there will be operational security concerns. i can't provide every level of detail you want. we will be as transparent as we can. bob? >> you mentioned the bulge of the 3 battalions will be there by the end of the weekend. do you anticipate that the operation would begin that day? >> the operation has begun. the movement of...

Of the reduction of civilian personnel in -- you know, civilian personnel in kabul as well as to help support the acceleration of the special immigrant visa process by the state department. that's what we're focused on, and as we get more information, and i'm able to provide it to you, i will, with the understanding that there's going to be operational security concerns and i'm not going to be able to provide every level of detail that i am sure you want. we will be as transparent with you as we can. bob? >> thank you, john. you mentioning the bulk of the three battalions will be there probabl...

Advantages. >> is the u.s. military prepared to evacuate all americans from kabul and close the u.s. embassy in kabul? >> our commission is to help the state department reduce their civilian personnel in kabul and assist in the special immigrant visa process. >> how close are they to closing the embassy? >> you would have to ask the state department. visa. they are reducing their presence in kabul. >> are 3,000 u.s. troops going to kabul, is this a combat deployment? >> i didn't sleep on that question. i answered it well yesterday. >> john, these soldiers and marines putting on night vision

There are thousands in afghanistan looking to get out. >> that's right. there are thousands of them. the first group, as you mentioned, about 200 that arrived earlier this morning. that's a combination of some people who worked for the u.s. as interpreters and other things and their family members. so far about 700 afghans have actually gone through the vast majority of the special immigrant visa process. they have been approved. those are the first ones that will be brought here to fort lee. when you count the 700 plus their families, that is a total of about 2500 total people that will be br...

Retribution against afghans who assisted the u.s. military during that long conflict that from a u.s. perspective is being brought to an end. there are about 18,000 of those people and president biden has committed to relocating those people as much as possible out of afghanistan. there is a special immigrant visa process for them to come to the united states, but while the troop drawdown is underway and the taliban is making gains and there's increased danger of full-blown civil war, the administration is now launching operational lies refuge. the last week of this month they're going to begi...