combat tours in afghanistan as an army ranger. they're obviously an extremely brutal and immoral group of folks. that's why we have to do what's necessary and take total control of that airport, extend the security perimeter beyond the airport, establish some corridors to allow safe passage and make sure we're transporting american citizens first and foremost but also our afghan partners and allies and get them out. we have tens of thousands of folks we need to get out. that's not going to happen overnight but we need to make the commitment to do that. i don't we set a calender deadline. i think we do it until we get it done. >> unless you're in control of the city itself, doesn't the taliban control who gets access to those corridor s? >> well, you have to establish lines of communication and open up some roads. to the extent we expand those out to the city, how far we