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Currently possess the authorities and needs to call up more forces if needed or does he have to ask the white house for that? >> if he makes major muscle movement in terms of additional forces of a significant size, he would absolutely want to have that conversation with the commander in chief. >> given major movement may happen in the future, is that like preauthority in effect -- >> i won't get into the planning process, gordon. we feel like with the additional capacity that we have that should there be a need to expand the mission in any way that we have what we require. and if that would c...

Make. >> does the secretary currently possess the authorities to call up more forces or does he have to ask the white house? >> if he was going to make a major muscle movement in terms of additional forces of significant size, he would want to have that conversation with the commander in chief. >> i mean, given the possibility the movement may occur in future, as that like pre-authority? >> i'm not going o get into the planning process. we feel like with the additional capacity that we have that should there be a need to expand the mission in any way that we have what we require and if that wo...

That wouldn't be our call make. >> understood. >> does the secretary possess the authority he needs to call up more forces if needed or does he have to ask the white house first? >> if he was going to make a major muscle movement in terms of additional forces of a significant size, he would absolutely want to have that conversation with the commander-in-chief. >> given the possibility that major muscle movement may occur in the future, is that like preauthority, already been -- >> i'm not going to get into the planning process. we feel like with the additional capacity that we have that should...

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...

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