had this happened under trump il would have been a mess.ap it doesn t matter.ve it s a tough situation. it s a war. you re trying to get out of a country that you don t know. let s take care of that first. speaking of getting people out i should, by the way, just u update you on the latest numbers we have from the white house ou from today, about 2,000 people were evacuated from kabul, the result of 11 u.s. military flights, c17s, those huge military cargo planes which carry approximately 1,400 evacuees. there were seven coalition flights that carried 600 people. and so far in the last two weeks the total evacuation has been approximately 113,500 people just in the last few weeks. about 119,000 overall. but, again, the u.s. embassy is warning americans to not come to the airport, to stay away from the airport because of what it describes as a specific as a specific credible threat. alonzo, i ll come back to you ic one second, but i do want to ged
unbelievable courage and heroism and empathy of all service members, not just special operators and some of the afghan special operators that are at the airfield but especially in the marines and army that are guarding the field. but and i say this as an army guy, those pilots that are flying those c17s and c130s are doing some phenomenal work. i heard a story about a pilot today when his crew chief told him there were #00 bodies onboard and did he have enough power to take off, and he just said watch me. that s the kind of hireoism these young captains and majors flying these aircraft are conducting. thank you both, gentlemen. thank you, sam, i appreciate it. investigators want to know everything trump and his closest confidants were doing on january 6th. a special committee demanding documents. stay with us. way for you to sell your car. whether it s a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car.
couple of days. because people can t get to the airport. they can t get to the airport. how are you thinking about this? this is a staggering air lift but at the same time, the way i m thinking about it is, look, if you, if your family was in peril, anyone s family was in peril, and you survive but your brother or mother don t or your kids, you re not celebrating. no. this isn t a moment to celebrate. it s great you got out. it is a tragedy nonetheless. you can separate the mission from the policy. the mission has been performed pretty remarkably well in a finite number of days many tens of thousands of people carried out. you know you covered the military for years. you have family in the military. i have. that s an enormous operation. dozens of c17s, all the coordination, the protection necessary to do that and the respect you saw those soldiers showing those refugees as they come in. that should be lauded. but that mission was bookended by policy that basically gave this c
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temporary safe havens that you can bring these individuals to as they complete their screening. and the screening is a big part of that. we have intelligence and law enforcement personnel at these sites making sure that robust screening is done of these individuals so that nobody comes in the united states that hasn t been screened in a robust manner. and so there s lots of factors that affect through-put. we were very glad to see that we were able to get that number out yesterday. but we re going to take it day by day. day by day. so the number of aircraft available? i think briefed the number of aircraft was like yeah. no, no, no. but the same number of aircraft are available on any given day. we can get up to on gaichb day can get up to about 30 c17s. that doesn t mean that 30 are going to fly everyday. we were under that yesterday and still was able to get out still able to get out more than 10,000. and the perimeter question.