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Chart. dozens of veterans organizations to meet with president biden and convey his concerns. they were unsuccessful. meanwhile, people are working behind the scenes through and around the government to help people because the government will not -- this administration does not care about americans trapped. some say as many as 10,000 still need to be out. but they don't have a master list. that allows them to say it was the americans' fault for not register with the beaments. , which by the way, you abandoned for no reason which secretary of defense austin says i want to defend the embassy ins...

Life? brian: we had 2300 there and that was too much for president biden. because they screwed this up so royally. they are up to 5800. think how much money this is costing us flying to these third countries let alone to military bases with our citizens, with our allies. with people that have to yet be screened. keep in mind, right now, we have to push that deadline back, there is no difference. what people tell you in the cia they're extremely worried about isis k and suicide attempts. so you have the taliban talking to i don't trust. at least you could see them but isis is looking to blow us...

It was the last base to be turned over to the afghans. even as recently as three weeks ago before we actually had to conduct a noncombatant evacuation, the leaders ran a table top exercise on what it would be like to run an effective operation out of hamid karzai international airport. it's not without challenges, but we're doing that now. that focus is on making sure that we can get as many people out as possible. and jen, the numbers are showing that it is working. nobody is taking it for granted, don't want to be predictive about tomorrow, but it's working. do you have anything to add to th...

And i would be reticent to get more specific than that. but since the 14th we believe we have been able to evacuate several thousand americans. >> very quickly lastly so the last table top exercise was about three weeks ago. >> it was about three weeks ago. it was certainly before kabul fell. this is something -- i talked about this before, this was something that the pentagon had been thinking about for a long time. i mean, as far back as late april when we held a rehearsal of concept exercise here at the pentagon looking at the retro grade and how that was going to parse out over the summer....

Thousand americans. >> very quickly, the last table top exercise for the new operation was about three weeks ago? >> it was about three weeks ago and it was certainly before kabul fell. it is something that i talked about before. this is something the pentagon had been thinking about for a long time, as far back as late april when we held a rehearsal exercise here looking at the retro grade and how that would parse out. apart of that conversation was the potential for noncombatant evacuation operations and what that would like like and how we would execute that. >> i wanted to know if you coul...