there as quickly as we did. we re grateful for other countries who have already agreed to accept additional numbers and we re working out the details of that with them right now. i ll let those countries speak to their contributions and the state department. but from a military perspective, we are in need of additional capacity and we re grateful that other countries are going to be helping us out with that capacity even if it is awe temporary basis. but to help us with the through put. we saw what happened today when that was the limiting factor. it wasn t aircraft on the ground. it wasn t people cued up and manifested. it was a destination. it s good to have that freed up right now. and as i think i answered jen s question, obviously some of a large portion of the individuals will come to the united states and we ve got three military
reasons we reached capacity there as quickly as we did. we are grateful for other countries who have already agreed to accept addition fal numbers and we re working out the details with them now. i ll let the countries speak to their contributions and the state department but from a military perspective, we are in need of addition fal capacity a we re grateful other countries will be helping us out with that capacity even if it is on a temporary basis. we saw what happened today when that was the limiting factor. it wasn t aircraft on the ground. it wasn t people cued up and manifested. it was destination. as i think i answer, i think it was jen s question. some of a large po portion of these individual will come to the united states and we have got three political tear bases
0 welcome to msnbc on a busy friday afternoon. president biden giving an update on the chaotic situation, the evacuation of americans and afghans as the white house continues to deal with the fallout from the crisis unfolding in afghanistan. the president says evacuation flights have resumed. that is of being paused for several hours. sources tell nbc news the flights stopped temporarily because qatar, the first batch of evacuees were taken, didn t have the capacity to take any more people. this has its situation outside the airport gets more desperate. thousands of afghans hoping for a chance to get inside and get on a plane out of the country. the president defended his situation to get out of afghanistan in a report that nearly two dozen diplomats at the u.s. embassy in kabul sent a cable to tony blinken warning of a possible taliban takeover and urged an airlift operation. i made the decision, the buck stops with me. i took the consensus opinion. it would not occur if it occurred