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keep you informed every day as we move forward. goode protect our troops and our diplomats and those serving in harm's way. i will take a few questions. darlene from the associated press. >> reporter: mr. president, thank you. will you extend that august 31st deadline? what is your thought process on extending the evacuation? >> there's discussion going on among us and the military. our hope is we will not have to extend, but there will be discussions, i suspect, on how far along we are in the process. mario parker, bloomberg. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president just to piggyback on that, the g7 -- promised support back in june. if they asked for a larger or longer american presence past the august 31st deadline, who
there will be plenty of time to criticize and second guess when this operation is over, but now, now, i'm focused on getting this job done. i would ask every american to join me in praying for the women and men risking their lives on the ground in the service of our nation. as events evolve over the coming days, my team and i will continue to share the information and update the american people on exactly where things are. we'll use every resource necessary to carry out the mission at hand and bring to safety american citizens and our afghan allies. this is our focus now. and when this is finished, we will complete our military withdrawal and finally bring to an end 20 years of american military action in afghanistan. thank you, and may god bless our troops and our diplomats and all those serving in harm's way, and
there is going to be plenty of time to criticize and second guess when this operation is over, but now, now, i am focused ondone. i would ask every american to pray for every man and woman sacrificing for this nation. in the coming days my team and i will continue to share information and update the american people on exactly where things are and we will use every resource necessary to carry out the mission at hand and bring to safety american citizens and our afghan allies. this is our focus now. and when this is finished, we will complete our military withdraw and finally bring to an end 20 years of american military action in afghanistan. thank you and may god bless our troops and the diplomats and those serving in harm's way and
pay our military act that congress did pass at the last moment before the shutdown and the president signed, that should pay for this. but he says because of careless interpretation, nobody is getting a benefit. >> brian: plus on top of that, the families have to pay for their own travel to dover and let alone not having the money to bury those who lost their lives in battle coming back from afghanistan or wherever else this happened. so today the house is going to put in a resolution together. i'm sure it will pass the senate. but it's going to pass this specifically as this ongoing cr, continuing resolution, which we don't have approved, continues with the debt ceiling on october 17th looming. >> elisabeth: it certainly didn't pass by colonel oliver north yesterday when he was talking to megyn kelly. >> this isn't about the government shutdown. it's about whether the commander in chief gives a damn about the morale of our troops. that's what it really comes down to. those serving in harm's way and their families and the morale of
we have colonel oliver north. i know you're upset about this. everyone is. you think the president hasing in smg to do with this that he could have a hand in undoing this, tell us. >> it's unforgiveable they're not paying to pans port families to the service men and women killed in action to dover. there can be no excuse for what they've just done. thankfully, americans are helping to make sure family members can be there. special operations warrior foundation, freedom alliance offered to help transportation costs for the families for these soldiers and marine killed this weekend. some were trying to make this a political issue. but it's more than that. this isn't about the government shut douchblt bits whether the commander in chief gives a damn about the moral of troops. that is what it comes down to. those serving in harm's way and morale of the families.