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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 change, if it would require a change, can you bet that general mckenzie would flow up his recommendations. the secretary would review them ....
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 there be a need to expand the mission in any way, that we have what we require. if that would change, if it would require a change, you can bet that general mackenzie would ....
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 ....
0 . the pullout has been a whole different story. a special thank you to all o our guests that have joined us in our amazing reporters with their first-hand stories covering afghanistan over that decades. the best in the business. continuing coverage on the fox news channel. the story with martha mac callum start right now. what annout standing middle east team we have and the coverage over the years brings something to this story that i don t think you ll find anywhere else. good afternoon, everybody. i m martha maccallum in new york. we continue our coverage right now on the story. we re about to get another update here. we re going to go to the pentagon and the state department. a lot of questions left unanswered and according to some of our reporting were answered incorrectly, not based in fact. so we hope there s another go-round here in just a moment and we ll get some answers from the administration. we have 17 minutes of q&a with president biden. so that will be exten ....