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Support this movement. that said, i also said, and in fact, in my opening statement, that there will be air lift provided. clearly there's going to be an air force role here with respect to air lift, but in terms of combat aircraft, i know of no such moves to do that and as i've said, i've laid out for you twice what the movements would be and i'm not going to speak about rules of engagement. we never do that from the podium. david. >> you said you won't speculate about movements on kabul, but how would you describe the situation now? is kabul under threat? is kabul isolated? what is it? >> ri...

This movement. that said, and also in my opening statement, there is going to be air lifts provided and clearly a air force role in terms of air lift, but in terms of the combat, i have no movement, and i will not speak to rules of engagement, and we never do that from the podium. david. >> and in respect to movement on kabul, but how would you describe the situation now? is kabul under threat? is kabul isolated? what is it? right now without getting into a battlefield assessment everyday, and i don't want to do that. kabul is not right now in imminent threat environment. but clearly, david, i...

I gave you the lay down what have we are sending to support this movement. that said i also said in my opening statement, there will be air lifts provided. there will be an air force role but in terms of combat aircraft i no of no such moves to do that. i won't speak about open engagement. we never do that from the podium. >> how would you describe the situation now? is kabul under a threat? is kabul isolateed? what is it? >> right now without getting into a battlefield assessment every day. i don't want to do that. kabul is not right now in an imminent threat environment.

Iraq and syria doing some close-out operations. not sure how long we're going to be there. but i think what's really important to realize is that here is kabul. here is where the government continues to control. so the point that everybody is making is that kabul might be isolated. i don't know that it's going to collapse immediately. this is a city of 6 million plus people. i mean, to take the city over for the taliban to go block by block and to assume tight control, that's simply the physics of that will simply take a considerable amount of time. the estimates might be 90 days. no reason no...

Take a look at the map to give everyone a better view or idea of what we're talking about here. this is kabul's green zone. it's where several embassies are located, including the german and british embassies. afghan officials say a sewage tanker truck exploded just outside the german embassy's wall where several of its employees were injured and one afghan security guard was killed. at least 90 people died in the attack. more than 450 were wounded. these numbers are fluid. they continue to go up. so that could be even higher. the u.s. embassy is about half mile away from where the explosion h...