personnel and supplies and supported jtf haiti s assessment of air fields and roads throughout the area. a ch47 completed a partial move of 60% of a field hospital which we believe the rest of the field hospital will be airlifted today. the u.s. coast guard continues its lifesaving missions and again all of the helicopters involved will be on airlift missions to ease the suffering and to get people and capabilities where they need to be. as you know, the u.s.s. arlington is now underway and expected to arrive later this week to provide additional lift and medical capabilities and serve as another resource for the people of haiti. finally, special tactics airmen assigned to the special operations wing are currently augmenting the life-saving and humanitarian aid efforts if haiti and responsible for
deadlines assigned to the pentagon to do that. it s what is required to accomplish that mission. get these people out alive. i sensed that there was more than general milley wanted to discuss or could discuss at this point with regard to the potential for reopening bagram, which has two airstrips as opposed to the one airstrip at karzai airport. we have reporting from john kirby off camera that said that an air force unit that can quickly reopen air fields is now in kabul. are you seeing any indications that reopening bagram is on the table? i haven t seen anything. i m doing what most americans are doing, listening to the news. i never ever bother these people that are executing missions to find out what the hell is going on. that s troublesome for them. i don t do it.
us. first, to retired general david petraeus. what stood out to you here, sir? well, several items. first, let me come back to a question that you asked before this. do we have leverage? we have the might of the u.s. military. don t forget that. we can bring that to bear. second, their focus is appropriate on u.s. citizens. the commander announced that there couldn t be a more capable commander on the ground. he s done enumerable double digit duties to afghanistan. so huge capable individual. and this raises question. what are we going to do 31 august? should we go back to the embassy? questions about other air fields and the rest of that, which seem
0 readout on that and also if they discussed the regional implications with respect to china and russia and how they are seizing on this the withdrawal. sandra: jacqui heinrich. thanks for joining us. martha: thank you. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum in new york. breaking moments from now, for the first time, we will hear from our two top generals. mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs and lloyd austin, the secretary of defense who reportedly advised the president against a complete withdrawal of u.s. forces from afghanistan. we have not heard from either of these individuals since kabul fell sunday and the country of afghanistan with it. no word when we ll hear from the secretary of state, anthony blinken who has been very quiet while all of this has been unfolding. remember, blinken said kabul won t fall from a friday to a monday. it won t happen like that. that s exactly what happened. senator tom cotton, an afghanistan veteran will join us in moments. first, ret
to do what s necessary here? and i fear what s necessary may be, we may need to send back military forces and retake air fields and territory that we held mere weeks ago. and that is hard to swallow for a lot of us will to bring this war to a conclusion, but we have to end it with. and that means we have to save these peoples lives. we should have never left in the first place without taking them with us. and we still have the means to save. them they re still alive, but we can save them once they re dead. that s when it comes down to. her gonna let them die? in fairness, a lot of the failures of the way that we think about this is that there are a lot of americans who don t know their own brothers and fister s fighting in this war, let alone that there are these translators who are helping americans. what do they face? if you are translator, who helped american, troops are diplomats, or you are in some other way useful to the american presence there, and you re not inside cavill,