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Of the biden administration? have you been providing all the information you have about people who need to be evacuated to the biden administration to expedite that? >> sure. i'm part of a group of folks. i did speak to the national security adviser a little earlier today. >> jake sullivan. >> about 20 minutes. he was incredible. very gracious, listening and was able to hook us up with the folks we needed to to pass information and other teammates, joy and then rob and safia are busy working to make sure people are safe so between the four of us we've been in touch with state, department of de...

Cooperating with any of these organizations? can you talk about that? and then what is your message to these organizations? are they helping, hindering? given what you know about how this is unfolding, should they continue their operations? >> it's certainly not for us to tell them to stop caring about individuals that they know that are in afghanistan, howard. we are -- as you might imagine, we are working off many different streams of information about various vulnerable afghan groups, not to mention applicants in the special immigrant visa program, and of course american citizens. and i don...

Airbnb on August 24 announced that it will provide temporary housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees worldwide.

Anyone else. just as we work to suppress the terrorism threat from al qaeda and isis in yemen, in syria, in somalia, in the islamic magreb and many other countries and let me just finish by saying, the president has been clear that from his perspective, american counterterrorism capabilities have evolved to the point where we can suppress that terrorism threat without keeping thousands or tens of thousands of troops on the ground in a country. we have proven that out in other countries, and that is exactly what we intend to do in afghanistan, and the president has spoken about the terrorism is...

Them. at this point, we believe about 13,000 people remain at the kabul airport. that, too, a brand new update. we'll get some information on that. those 13,000 are waiting, hoping to be evacuated. 33 u.s. military transport jets are expected to arrive at the airport in the next 24 hours, each has the capacity, we're told, to take 400 passengers out. a source tells cnn the united states, though, is changing its policy on who will be admitted into the airport from today on, only u.s. citizens green card holders and citizens of nato countries will be allowed past the airport gates. this is a big...