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Afghanistan with multiple warnings, and offs to help them leave afghanistan, all the way back as far as march. the bottom line, 90% of americans in afghanistan who wanted to leave were able to leave. and for those remaining americans, there is no deadline. we remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. we gave 19 messages starting in march to americans to leave the country. we offered them financial assistance to leave the country, and then for more than two weeks, we gave them specific instructions for how to come. 97% of the people we communicated with got to the airport and got out on planes. so mike, you might have heard the president say they got 90% of the americans who wanted to leave out of the country. the white house updated the transcript, the president misspoke, and say it was 98% of americans who wanted to get out were able to leave the what the president is saying, and what jake sullivan is saying is these ....
Efforts, which as many of you may or may not know who have covered hurricanes before, people leaving their homes and going to evacuation centers, that can increase in the days ahead. it isn t just always in the day after. and certainly there are ongoing efforts on the ground. he s open to that. i don t have anything to announce at this point in time. obviously the president of the united states going to a region takes a lot of resources. on afghanistan, is there any sense of if and how many americans might ve left today? is there even a way to track that from the u.s. government at this point? we remain in touch through a range of means of communication, email, text, whatsapp. that s something that we could certainly do from here but also having a presence in doha and diplomats in the region will enable that to happen locally or close by as well. i don t have an update for you on the numbers. but that s something the state department would have the best assessment of. we have a ....
Administration was still going to work on getting them out, just not through military means. how do you think politically the american people are going to respond to that? it depends on how quickly he finds success with that promise. he said something to the effect of the deadline, the august 31st deadline was not for getting those remaining americans out. there was one hint in their diplomatic strategy, a very strong hint, that is, he said we america has leverage over the taliban, what he seemed to be referring to and certainly what i have heard from democratic sources on capitol hill is that what they re relying on is the fact that the u.s. sees the assets of afghanistan that are obviously now at some point going to be controlled by the ....
Or thank you all for your service, because so many of these afghans, tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, have worked closely, have fought alongside and have died alongside american military service men and women over the past 20 years. and so i do think you will likely get some kind of response from afghanistan as the news of that speech trickles out, jake. so, dana bash, president biden 13 days ago said that they would get every american out by august 31st and would stay longer if every american wasn t out. obviously events overtook them. there was a terrorist attack, and the president said that it was the unanimous advice of his military and civilian advisers to withdraw august 31st. he said in addition in his speech just now that 90% of the americans who wanted to get out would get out and the ....
Why those remaining folks didn t. some changed their mind at the last minute. some wanted to bring very large extended family who were not americans who couldn t get through checkpoints. some may have shown up at the airport, although i have to tell you i m not familiar, and general mckenzie said he was not familiar with anyone being turned away at the gate last minute. but the fact is that we went out of our way for two full weeks to create the circumstances for any american who wanted to get to the airport and get on a plane to do so. and the question the president ultimately faced was how long do i keep u.s. marines in harm s way with threats escalating hour by hour? how many more days do i do that? he ultimately decided it was right to end it and to shift to a diplomatic mission. and we have plenty of leverage with the taliban to help effectuate the safe passage of any further americans who want to leave afghanistan. how are you going to get the americans and u.s. legal permanent ....