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But the general we were briefing with actually said there have been three babies born in these circumstances? >> yes, that is. right he surprise everyone on that, including. me this is general sea lions, he is the commander of u.s. transportation command. and we want him to come in and talk to our press corps about the incredible adjusts effort that is going in to moving these thousands of people out of afghanistan and into temporary safe havens elsewhere. as they work their way back to the united states. and read the end of the briefing, he got asked about the one baby that we knew had been b...

Admiral kirby, thank you so much. i know it's been a long couple weeks. even a long day today. thank you. >> my pleasure, rachel. thank you. >> let me start by asking you not about the most important thing, but something my interest was very piqued by at the second pentagon briefing in which we learned there wasn't just one baby born on one of these flights, one of these evacuation flights this weekend at ramstein in germany, but the general who you were briefing with, actually said there's been three babies born in these circumstances. >> yeah, that's right. he surprised everybody, including ...

This is general steve lyons, the commander of u.s. transportation command. we wanted him to come in and talk to our press corps about the incredible logistics effort that is going in to moving these thousands of people out of afghanistan into temporary safe havens elsewhere as they work back to the united states. right at the end of the briefing, he got asked about the one baby that we knew had been born, because there was great photographs of that, of course. and he let it slip that in fact, actually, two others had been born. we and the press corps here at the pentagon are trying to chase do...

And there is sustaining on those flights coming in. we're taking evacuees out. centcom is addressing that issue. >> general, we're going to let you go unless you have any closing thoughts or anything you want to hit at the end here. >> john, again, thank you for being heart of this today. you know, again, how proud i am of our mobility airmen just operating around the globe. everybody is just in this all in, rolling as hard as we k we're going to make this happen. >> thank you for your time today. thanks, everybody. we'll see you back here mid morning tomorrow. thanks very much. >> briefing at...

Efforts and make sure that our forces are protected and our military. >> we'll leave it there for now. we appreciate your time today. thank you. >> thank you. joining me now from the pentagon is nbc news correspondent courtney cubie. she was in the briefing room. i'll ask you first, what stood out to you in the briefing to day? anything new we should be focusing in on? >> so when we heard from general lions, he's the head of u.s. transportation command, basically, he's the general who is in charge of coordinating all of the aircraft. one thing that stuck out to me is he said there are 200 u....