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bureaucratic hurdle. they don t necessarily have just a master list of all of the people once they get there to the airport. so the two things that stuck out for me from today s briefing, number one it is very clear that they have a capacity to take thousands of people out every day, and despite the fact that they got about 2,000 people out in the last 24 hours, it seems as if they had the capacity, the air lift capability to get out more than they took out. the second thing that i found interesting is this acknowledgment that will are armed f 18s flying out of kabul right now. flying out of a u.s. air carrier. this is interesting to me because it shows the u.s. military has not only the capability but they are ready if need be to carry out air strikes over kabul if called in.
the pentagon was 2,000 people evacuated on wednesday. as nick said, the concern there is not the air lift capability. it is having people to fly out. what more are we learning about what the pentagon is saying, why the numbers are where they are? reporter: well, victor, as nick just so aptly explained, the problem is getting people past the taliban check points, getting them past the gates at the airport, which are manned from the inside by u.s. troops, and on to flights. the pentagon has been working towards trying to get a capacity, if you will, of 5,000 to 7,000 to 9,000 seats per day, but they don t have the bodies to put in those seats because of the situation outside the airport. there is a top u.s. military commander at the airport who has been talking directly to the taliban for many days now, trying to get them to ease back on their violent control of the crowds, but it is a crowd control issue, and trying to get
these flights contain more than 2,000 passengers. these flights left kabul and arrived designated safe havens. since the start of evacuations august 14th, we have air lifted approximately 7,000 total evacuees, reflective of a ramp-up of aircraft and air lift capability, faster processing of evacuees and greater informa fi. if we go back to the state department of movement at the end of july, cumulative number of people moved out of afghanistan is somewhere near 12,000. that number includes american citizens, u.s. embassy personnel, individuals
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