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>> what we are confident is that we're going to maximize capacity to the degree that we can. and that at max capacity as the general said, given what could be more than two dozen sorties per day, you could get to 5,000 to 9,000 people out per day. our focus is on again making sure that the environment that the conditions are set to be able to do that. as i said the other day, airlift is not a limited factor. but it also will require and has required constant liaison with our state department colleagues who are obviously in charge of administering the special immigrant visa process and the othe...

31st you can get all those people out or is that uncertain? >> we're confident we'll maximize capacity to the degree that we can. and that at max capacity as the general said given what could be more than two dozen flights per day you could get 5,000 to 9,000 people out a day. our focus is making sure the environment and conditions are set to be able to do that. as i said the other day, airlift won't be a limiting factor but require and has required constantly liaison with our state department colleagues who are obviously in charge of administering the special immigrant visa process and other ...

Plates, stealing them. no one knows what it's for. and most of the people i talked to, many of whom afghans who fled as children when the taliban came into power and returned years later after the u.s. invasion because they wanted to be part of rebuilding their country, they're now targets they worked in education, agriculture, infrastructure, all of those things they never had before, that work now makes them targets. they tell e me they are hunkered down, and many of them do not qualify for the priority visas. so they're doing everything they can to explore the options to get out. it's as mu...

0 ? -perfect! because we're building a better network every single day. in less than a minute from now, we expect to see top pentagon officials at that microphone on the left side of your screen for the latest on those emergency evacuations out of afghanistan, where the taliban is now firmly in control. we're going to bring that to you live the second it starts. here's where things stand as we've come on the air. flights out of the kabul airport are back up and running after they were shut down for hours. u.s. troops could clear the runways of thousands of afghans desperate to get away from ...