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0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and center and vital to the mission. >> one more, president biden told reporters in oval office when mee...

There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who decide they want to leave to do so. along with the many afghans who have stood by us over these many years. >> reporter: 4,500 americans have already been airlifted out. some 500 just today. president biden set august 31st as the deadline for the evacuation. a date the taliban called a red line for the u.s. getting out of afghanistan entirely. the president says we'll meet the deadline, but for any left behind -- >> that effort will continue every day past august 31st. the taliban have made public and private commitme...

People so he can convey exactly what he knew at the appointed time time where he addresses the public. he has wanted very detailed updates of exactly what we know about what's happening on the ground and that's why he's been in constant contact with members of the national security team. >> reporter: and can you you and from the report that it's 13 service members who have died? >> secretary psaki: i would leave that to the national security team. >> reporter: talking about the active threats, how would you sum up right now the level of confidence? there won't be another attack like this befor...

The question becomes what happens now? john? >> john: jennifer at the pentagon. you brought us the tragic news about the four fatalities. what is next? >> reporter: unfortunately, we can report at this time, at least ten u.s. servicemembers, marines and soldiers have been killed in the attack this morning outside of the abbey gate. what we know at this time is there were two explosions. there was a suicide bombing that struck outside the abbey gate where the u.s. military was guarding the abbey gate and there was a second explosion at the baron hotel, which is about

Remain in country after august 31st. you also heard secretary blinken say they will spare no resource, economic, diplomatic, working with allies, the u.s. working with its allies to try to grant safe passage to any afghan, any american who remains in country after august 31st. this explosion, presumed attack outside the kabul airport, you can certainly imagine how that complicates this effort and the immediate political calculus that president biden has to make here. >> geoff bennett, thank you. as we're watching aircraft still taking off from the hamid karzai international airport at kabul, w...