congress about the thousands potentially of a gains who could be left behind when this operation is finished in its -- in its -- in its most earnest forms. what were your takeaways from the secretary's briefing today? >> credit to the administration for regularly coming out and providing the information that they do have but there is a bit of a disconnect between the messaging that they are going and many of us in contact with people on the ground who are inundated every day with requests and desperate pleas with people trying to flee and what we are hearing is unfolding there. i do have to say what we heard from the secretary of state there was probably the most conciliatory we've heard any white house official so far in terms of acknowledging that there are many people who will not be helped in the days ahead, these final days before the u.s. final withdrawal. the important number i know a lot of people were looking for is how many americans remain. we now know that the u.s. governments estimates there were around 6,000 total americans in