for almost all evacuation flights out of afghanistan. i want to bring with you courtney, yesterday a warning that more attacks could still come. listen. right now our focus really we have other active threat streams, extremely active threat streams against the airfield we want to take the steps we need to to protect ourselves there. we expect the attacks to continue and we re doing everything we can to be prepared for those attacks. how has the american posture changed there around the airport? you have 13 u.s. service members killed yesterday, 18 injured. we re hearing more attacks could be imminent now. what does it look like at the airport right now? so, overall, the posture has not really changed that much. there s still about 5,400, 5,500 u.s. troops there securing the airport. they are continuing to screen civilians as they come into the airport. that s what happened here, willie.
efficiency and since u.s. and coalition forces began the evacuation approximately 111,000 evacuees have departed safely. the state department consular officers continue to screen and process people arriving at gates around kabul. some gates are closed but american citizens, siv applicants and vulnerable afghans who have the proper credentials will continually to be processed for departure from the airfield. there are still approximately 5,400 individuals on the airport as of this report awaiting flights out of afghanistan. we have the ability to include evacuees on u.s. military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. the department of defense has the continued responsibility to support the state department in the ongoing movement evacuees
anymore. again, time and space are a premium at the airport. he has the authority to make that decision. i wasn t pushing back on the fact the withdrawal has been going on since april 14th when the president announced it. i wasn t pushing back. i wanted to make it clear that we hadn t pushed some button and said go retrograde now. we still have on the ground about 5,400 of the 5,800 that we reached at the maximum. admiral vasely has the authority to manage in a prudent way his force management on the ground. i haven t gone to the phones and i want to make sure i don t forget that. jeff showingal. thank you very much. from talking to military groups, it is evident that the taliban are still blocking afghans from gaining entrance to hamid karzai international airport. and even when afghans make it onto the airport, there have
down. we heard from the pentagon today, as they get to the last couple of days, they are going to have to focus more and more on getting u.s. troops and u.s. equipment out. right now there s about 5400 troops there. they re down 400. they ve already taken some people out of the airfield area who were considered nonessential personnel. they re going to have to get 5400 american troops out of there while keeping it secure until the very last plane is wheels up off that airfield in the middle of the potential taliban and isis threat. let s continue the conversation now. joining me is mike rogers, fmar hurtling. as we re looking at what we know about the airport in terms of