new york times pentagon correspondent helene cooper and ben rhodes, former national security adviser for president obama. thank you both. let's talk with what we just heard from ned about the drawdown and we can only assume the standard procedures involved, shredding documents, securing the embassy and there are 1400 people that we know of. tell us about this trip deployment and how this is going to work. our own reports from courtney kubi and others that there are differing accounts of how soon kabul can fall. some are within this weekend. >> there really are -- hi, andrea and hello, ben. we started yesterday morning reporting based on conversations that i had had and other reporters have had with senior administration officials that there was very real fear that kabul could fall within the 30 days, and i remember calling the