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They're getting people out of afghanistan. the president saying that in last 24 hours or so they have been able to get out 5700. that's an increase and more in line with the 5,000 to 7,000 or 9,000 or so figure that we heard from white house and pentagon officials that they wanted to be able to get to. but we also interestingly heard the president seeming to open the door in these remarks to a slightly broader mission set here, more ambitious goals. not only pledging that he will get all americans who want to get out of the country out of the country but then when asked by a white house report...

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...

The embassy personnel to continue to function with the consular services and all that. if we were to keep both bagram and the embassy going, that would be a significant number of military forces that would have exceeded what we had. and so a decision was made, proposal was made from centcom to collapse bagram and we estimated that the risk of going out of bagram was about the same. so going out of kaya was estimated to be the better tactical solution in accordance with the mission set that we were given and in accordance with getting the troops down to when 600, 700 number. >> okay. time for t...

Behind his decision and really focused on this very narrow mission set at this point that courtney will elaborate on to try to get american civilians out of there safely with white house spokes woman jen psaki saying the president is firmly saying there is no regrets. >> i want to play something that the president said on july 8th, whether or not this is a moment like 1975. here is his response. >> it is not the north vietnamese army. they are not capable. there is no circumstance where you will see people lifted off of the roof of the embassy of the united states from afghanistan. >> so, josh...

Deliberations over exactly how these particular units were chosen. this was based on consultation by the secretary with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and general mckenzie based on the mission set. and again, it's a narrowly defined mission to safeguard the movement of civilian personnel and to help process at an accelerated pace, special immigrant visas. we sourced a mission, and based on consultations with top military leaders the secretary decided this was the appropriate amount right now, and again, to have additional forces available closer into theater if that was required. so...