but clearly, the focus is on safeus passage for those folks o are in the country and need it. and so to the extent that we can help with that is something we should be focused on here in the short-term. would you be supportive of the president announced more troops going into afghanistan to help with the exodus of people who are leaving that country.th at some point the embassy staff and all americans who want to get out of afghanistan will be out of there probably within the next 72 hours. richard engle reporting it might be faster than that because he is watch you go all of these chinook helicopters going t bac and forth fromoo the airplane t the u.s. a embassy. secretary blinken said on meet the press that we are going to keep on working with these afghan interpreters and translators and people who helped americans. but once kabul falls there is no embassy for them to go to, no place foro them to get their visas. do you support the idea that american troops stay behind to evacua
0 going in and out of the country. if that were to happen, big if. then the u.s. military, who are there, they will work to defense any u.s. americans who are there and to keep the airport open so they can get the americans out safely. also, though, it s important to point out, you know, there were about 1,000, less than 1,000 u.s. troops who were already there. only about a1,000, not really full 1,000 have made their way in. that total of 5,000. they are not there yet. yeah. the current plach is according to defense officials is to continue to flow those people in. but this is all happening so in quickly, you have to wonder in the next 48, 72 hours f they are not in there, are they going to have time to get all of them in. a looking at pictures, with helicopter evacuations from the green zoneli to the airport, th are looking to get this place cleared out faster than it would probably take those extra troops to get in there. let s reset. it is sunday, august 15th.h. i m ali vel