and a shower and they call their people who love them, whoever was missing them. but they didn t answer. and then some other people kind of started coming around and i saw that, you know, that these people obviously looked like they knew a lot more about helping than i did. i started backing away and then i just got this gut feeling to take a picture. there was a nice jewish orthodox boy. he saw me in the street. he wanted to take me home to his mom and let me call my family. and i really, really appreciate that. she told me that i kind of changed her life around and i saved her day, these sort of things and i really felt silly because i didn t do anything really. i just took a few pictures.
guerrilla insurgency. clarissa, first of all, your situational awareness is more important than anything else. if you need to look around or get a sense of what s going on any time our militants are walking around with guns engaged in disputes, make sure you take care of your self and your crew there. if i can ask another question, we were speaking to john kirby moments ago, the pentagon press secretary, and he gave us a few bits of news i hadn t heard yet. number one, he claimed the united states had flown out 7 to 800 people in the last 24 hours. he hopes that number will rise to 5 to 9,000 people a day when the u.s. gets operations up and fully running there. but he also made clear that the u.s. doesn t intend to extend any authority or assistance beyond the borders of the airport, which means that people have to get there on their own, and that s not clear how that s going to happen for the tens of thousands of people, these afghan allies who need it. reporter: right, and the
other question he didn t answer was what about the people whose paperwork is stuck? what about the people who got rejected for some idiosyncratic, bureaucratic reason and they don t know why? they just got a note saying your siv has been declined. what happens to them? how do they can they reapply? are they given some assurance? and you know, i pressed him on this issue. can we say concretely that anyone who worked with a u.s. organization, be it military, be it nongovernmental, be it u.s. embassy, will be guaranteed they will be gotten out of this country safely? and he didn t really answer the question because the reality is i think the u.s. understands the magnitude of that task. you re talking about certainly tens of thousands of people. and how do you achieve that with the constraints on your resources and the constraints of the space that you have with which to operate? because the taliban is tolerating right now what s happening at the airport.
we face the prospect of multiple americans held hostage, on top of then how do we get 70 to 80,000 afghan siv and their families out with no flights moving, with the taliban surrounding the air field, set the withdrawal debate aside. the execution here has been nothing short of disastrous. when you add up all of those people we actually have john kirby from the pentagon on last hour. he seemed to put the number of americans somewhere between 5 and 10,000. i believe that is the number he put. that s a huge number. it s a huge number. withdraw all of our military assets before getting americans out. so that s the question. you put those americans together with the visa, the siv folks together with their families, then you consider, for instance, afghans who worked with the embassy. right. who worked with american organizations, who worked with
that was a week after the insurrection. days later, of course, he walked it back and try and flying down to mar-a-lago to show his loyalty not to the truth but, instead, to the man who incited a mob that sent him fleeing for his life and begging that same man, that day, to call off the rioters. quoting from a newly-released excerpt from leonnig and rucker s book. quote, kevin mccarthy, who had been trying to reach trump at the white house, finally, succeeded and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the rioters. trump falsely claimed the attackers were members of antifa. mccarthy told the president that, in fact, they were his own supporters. other advisers who were away from the white house tried to call trump but he didn t answer. they figured he knew what therapiorthey were going to say and he didn t want to hear it. plus, he was busy watching tv. he was watching the fire that he started burn. that s who kevin mccarthy made a pilgrimage to, again, today. he can t quit hi