both people and the equipment will be done in the same manner that we would do it anywhere else. obviously there s a strong bias to be able to get our material out with our people. if there needs to be destruction or other disposition of equipment there at the airport we will do that and we will do it appropriately. karla, did i get you already? we ll come back to you. my fault. my fault. helene. thank you. can i ask you both about the bottle necks, you have 20,000 people out in the last 24 hours, which is a big number, the biggest you have had yet. do you have 20,000 people now inside the airport to get out in the next 24 hours or are there bottlenecks preventing people from gettinging in and
criticism of how the withdrawal played out. you mentioned how the numbers have changed. a lot more people, just under 11,000 having evacuated. do you think things are getting better? are you confident in saying that? it seems like the evacuation is proceeding more rapidly. i m glad, for instance, that the bottle necks appear to be being cleared at the airport with regard to the number of flights taking off and, of course, the enlistment of civilian aircraft to move people from third party countries such as qatar and other places to europe and the united states. however, i know that we have about 20 to 30 people at my office trying to get out of afghanistan right now. so i d like to see the process by which those folks are cleared and moved to third countries for further processing to be advanced a little more speedily,
you can bet the issue of what is happening at kabul and the airport and the bedlam in and around there going on and on and disrupting thousands from even getting out of the country will come up. ahead of that, to jennifer griffin at the pentagon on where this stands right now. jennifer? neil, a somber briefing with very few answers. a defensive posture from the defense secretary and chairman of the joint chiefs that said now is not the time for after action reports or discussion of regrets. the picture that they painted was bleak and dependent on the taliban. the bottom line is afghans and americans can not get to the airport due to taliban checkpoints. u.s. military planes are leaving halfful due to bureaucratic bottle necks. people told that their paperwork is not in order around turned away. the defense secretary said there were limit tos the u.s. forces on the ground and offered this frank admission. we don t have the capability
u.s. citizens and residents and spouses and unmarried children should consider traveling to hamed karzai international airport. the united states government cannot ensure safe passage to the airport. we re hearing reports that some of these planes that are leaving the airport are doing so without a full contingent of people on them. there s a number of issues that they have to go through in order to get on the planes first. we talked about the journey to the actual airport. once you re there, there s diplomatic events that have to take place before people can get on these airports to whether they re coming to the u.s. or whether going to other countries. we asked the state department spokesperson what is the bottle necks, describe them and how does the state department plan to address them. first of all, they re opening the aperture to make sure there s people there with
about the economy and the white house can actually do much about it. what is the plan? reporter: well, i think the plan is largely to wait it out and try to do what they can to smooth out some of the bumps surrounding the reopening of the economy. as the fed and the white house economists often point out, we ve never shut down a massive economy like the united states and then quickly reopened it. what happens is you ve got mismatches between supply and demand and things that went dormant. don t always get started up rapidly overnight aggregated by some factors such as the shortage of semiconductors which makes it difficult to build new cars. so car prices have gone way up, prices of building homes is way up. the white house had a meeting on friday night with representatives of the home building industry as well as labor unions to try to figure out what they can do to smooth out bottle necks in the process. they re trying to move goods in and out of american ports faster