including 5,400 americans, have been evacuated from afghanistan. u.s. military troops have shown tremendous bravery and compassion as they put themselves in harm s way to evacuate as many american citizens and afghans as possible during this operation. that work by u.s. servicemembers continues across the globe at a number of intermediate staging bases in dod installations centcom, more than 27,000 passengers await follow-on movement. in ucom 22,000 passengers and today 17 flights will transport about 3,700 passengers to dulles international airport with approximately 11 flights and philadelphia international airport with six flights. in north com, there are nearly
american public it is safe to go to the airport and 30 minutes later it is contradicted. now washington post story coming out where the taliban said they would stay out of kabul but somebody in the administration told them no, we only need the airport. and you just reporting about missiles coming in. why would we give bagram up? the greatest fear is if you have one runway, if someone is able to hit the runway it stops the ability of movement of people. why would you remove the military before you removed the americans? and how can we leave americans behind? if earlier in this month you had this spokesperson for the defense say there were 11,000 americans and they say they have 5400 out. they are making a conscious decision they are leaving americans behind. why would you do that? harris: you know, i m so curious, leader mccarthy, why you all have not been called back onto the hill.
secondary explosion after the drone strikes that may have killed civilians there. they are investigating. in terms of americans evacuated, the pentagon says 5400 americans have been evacuated to date and about 300 americans may be left. that number is actually closer to 100, we have landed. i asked pentagon press secretary john kirby why the u.s. did not evacuate these americans before its forces left bagram airbase in july. they were essentially stopped by the state department from beginning those evacuations? i wouldn t say that. i don t think it s important right now to get into internal deliberations. our expectation was that the afghani government would stay in place. nobody could have imagined how quickly that government would have literally just dissipated, almost overnight. there was simply no way to predict that. the pentagon says that 26 military transport planes flew out of kabul airport yesterday
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hands of a terrorist, as these families did, that they re mourning, he knows, as i just said, firsthand, that there s nothing you can say, nothing you can convey to ease the pain and to ease what all of these families are going through. but he was honored to be there yesterday and to be able to spend some time with the families. go ahead. two quick questions and one other question. you said deactivated or otherwise departed. is that apples to apples to the 5,400 that have been evacuated? are we now including people who had registered but forgot to or did not register on their way out? i m trying to understand. as we re assessing, there are people, as we as the state department goes through and calls or emails who say, i have departed or i have left. that doesn t change the total number of evacuees that we have obviously provided to all of you every day on planes and transport. but right now, we re, of course, at the point where we are trying to assess and get a final number.