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arrive in the united states after a long difficult travel are team coverage continues with david spunt in washington. trey yingst and jacqui heinrich at the white house, jackie let's start with you, good afternoon. >> the president will deliver remarks this afternoon but it does not appear the president had any opportunity to ask questions a very limited number of people are going in and it has not been expanded and the pool of reporters who is typically going in for these kinds of remarks at the white house the president is under pressure to square the statements that he made this week with the reality on the ground in afghanistan and one of his most contested statements americans was having difficulty getting through the airport secretary of defense told lawmakers minutes later that was not the case and yesterday the state department told americans not to travel to the airport because it was too dangerous evacuation has been paused on-and-off because the various threat including from isis but the administration maintains