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give us some idea what this administration is up against with the clock ticking. well, first of all, it is only a few more days. three or four days to lift the military that are there on the ground. they already reduced it by 300 today or yesterday. and so it will take a number of days to move out and if they re going to make the august 31st deadline, basically, there are two or three more days to evacuate people who are desperate to get out. people who still can t get to the airport. can t get past the gates. i was with a woman tonight, an afghan woman, pleading with me to help her husband and others were there addressing a washington audience of women support here s had been helping these afghan women of the i had been getting calls and emails. i can t tell you how many from afghan journalists, as well as women i ve met at the university. they would never have been created under the taliban.
to it. we understand commanders will have plenty of other tools available to them to get the vaccination rates up and get these individuals i think that s almost a full hour. we re going to call it for right now. as the general mentioned in his opening statement, we ll shoot for an afternoon briefing. this one will be with general walters from ucom specifically i m kate bolduan. john kirby as well as general hank taylor taking questions from reporters on the ongoing evacuation efforts from afghanistan. jeremy diamond is at the white house, listening in to the update. the pentagon making clear they re still working towards the august 31st deadline. what are you hearing about this deadline and the new threat from isis and just the days ahead? reporter: listen, kate, it s very clear that president biden s decision to stick with the august 31st deadline has
going to be gone, and we re going to have to figure out different ways to do it. we can threaten the taliban. we did that at the beginning. we re evacuating people, get in our way, bad things are going to happen to you. i think we re at a stage now where again, people that aren t aware, don t understand, the taliban have been attacked by isis. the situation is going to keep getting more volatile by the day. i think the president made it clear, we re going to get out by august 31st. if it turns out that down the road we have to do something aggressive against the taliban because once again they re trafficking with terrorists, much better to do that from afar without thousands of american troops there essentially as sitting ducks inside an airport compound, so there s time for dealing with the taliban down the road to try to shape their behavior but i would think that the president has made it clear,
americans but turned out not to be. some may choose to stay. we ll continue to try to identify the status and plans of these people in the coming days. a sense of how complicate this had really is and that comes after urgent pleas from congress to do whatever it takes to get people out, even if that means blowing past the august 31st deadline. the washington post reporting house lawmakers tuesday urged the secretaries of state and defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and the director of national intelligence to appeal to president biden to reconsider plans to stick with august 31st for the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan if more americans and afghans eligible for extraction are still on the ground. republicans and democrats agreed that if there are still american citizens left in afghanistan trying to escape, the united states should not stick to the deadline regardless of the risk involved in staying. in the midst of what is turning out to be a herculean effort curr