knew more about the attack than they were letting on, listen here. i would not be surprised if this isis-k is a front for the taliban who are organizing the attack against us. to humiliate us further after we surrendered to a terrorist organization. john: tough talk from the president we ll hunt them down and make them pay. there seems to be increased urgency to gets american forces out by the deadline of august 31, which does serve the taliban s purposes. exactly. look, the taliban does run the risk of raising islamic state stature by if it allows this attack. but at end, achieves getting them out and humiliated the united states in the process. as far as counterrorism operation goes, with what? the u.s. is gone, u.s. assets are out of afghanistan, no
our objective and first priority and focus on diplomatic path forward, that is where we re putting our energy this point in time. go ahead. there have beg your pardon a lot of questions about this, i want to try to get clarity around after august 31, for people who still be on the ground in afghanistan and want to get out, does the u.s. right now have a vision of a process they will use to get people out after august 31? what is the commitment after august 31? is it absolute, if you want to get out of afghanistan and you are you help the u.s. military, you are an afghan, you will be able to get out? if you re a greencard holder or someone wanting out, is the u.s. guaranteeing that you will be able to get out? sec. of state psaki: i don t think we can guarantee, what we can do, work toward diplomatic
sec. of state psaki: we are working to improve conditions for people coming to the country. our security vetting process is so thorough that even as people are vetted before they come, go through a background check we implement checks including confirmation, in some cases, on landing. we check manifest and limited number of cases, we have vetting processes that may be be unresolved. very limited, may lead to a delay in an individual being held on the plane so we can have that process seen through. ensuring people are treated humanely coming to the united states, they is access to food and water, something we re committed to and will continue to improve conditions. i think the reason why these planes are waiting is also an important part of the context here, as well. you addressed the republican criticism of the president, but
inherent danger, just to be participating in the process. i m talking about our citizens and our afghan partners. but this will come to an end on the 31st. the president has made up his mind that s it. when we leave afghanistan, given implication what has taken place here, taliban takeover, didn t set conditions in place to prevent, we now know the u.n. is reporting somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 10,000 terrorists in afghan, beyond the taliban. we have said this is going to become an epicenter for international terrorism and it is already on its way. the world is a more dangerous place as a result of these decisions by this administration, in my view. john: general, when the president finally came out yesterday. he vowed those who are behind the attack yesterday would pay.
evaktuations safely? they ark just and make adjustments on the ground. commanders on the ground do in order to keep troops safe, in order to successfully evacuate more people from the country. we will not get into details from here. it is important to note and reiterate, you will see reduction in numbers over the next couple days, they are beginning retrograde process. they will be mindful of keepingly men and women in the military safe to the degree they can. we have seen images of servicemembers entering human barrier holding people back in kabul, do you know if that is still happening? seems like very vulnerable sec. of state psaki: just so i understand images of them conforming groups from getting to a certain