maintain the through-put that we ve seen in the last two days and then we will continue to assess what the requirements are from here forward of what we have to get that through-put into kabul. so you re looking at about 20,000 per day? i actually, i we re trying to get as many out as we can. and so if we could exceed what our previous expectations were and vefwe have and that is a go thing and continue to drive that at that. two questions. firstly is the intention to get every american out as want to live and as as many siv holders or as many afghans out as many americans that we could get out as fast as
airport for follow on transportation. so it is every day we are moving americans out of the country. tara. barring any factors, do you anticipate that you will be able to keep this pace up for another 20,000 in the next couple of days to maybe have 100,000 evacuated by the end of the week. that is definitely the plan, tara. but as you know, the through put is a function of many different factors including weather. so our plan is to continue this pace as aggressively as we can. you heard general lion speak to that i think very specifically yesterday. that is the goal. that is the intention. one final one for you. the babies that were born on the aircraft and on the at the u.s. side of the military base, are they considered american citizens. we ve gotten that question. that is a good question. we don t know the answer to that. i ll have to punt to my colleagues at the state department or immigration. i don t know the answer to that. and just to remind it was born on the aircra
morning. thank you. thank you, jim. well, this morning a developing story. we learned that the president, the vice president harris, her travel delegation from singapore was delayed because of what they re describing as a possible anomalous health incident. natasha bertrand is here to explain what that means. this is about concerns about a potential attack on americans? yeah. so u.s. officials don t exactly know what the anomalous health incidents are. whether they re attacks or kind of the incidental symptoms that people are experiencing because of some kind of, you know, spying by foreign adversaries. this is the havana syndrome. right. so this is something affecting hundreds of diplomats globally for a number of years now. and their symptoms range from the worst which is things like traumatic brain injury to
any additional air evacuations in the city of kabul, as the u.s. military done any evacuations out side of the city of kabul because there are still lots of americans that are not even in kabul? i ll let the general take that. when you talk about evacuations, are you talking about going out? we continue to closely coordinate to ensure the safe arrival of americans and others, so we have not gone further with any air operations at this time but i will say we continue to ensure the capabilities that we have and as required that we are able to do so. is there a plan in place to help extract americans who are outside of kabul at this point? we are always planning and assessing what needs to be done to help americans get to kabul airport. i have not gone to the phones
process, today we are going to pass a budget resolution and we are going to pass the john lewis voting rights act to make sure that we are doing both things. protecting our democracy, making sure that every american has that right to vote, and making sure that every american can participate fully in our economy. okay. okay. to work and make those investments in climate change, and in our working families that americans demanding. i guess those priorities. but you mentioned taxes. that is another issue of disagreement within the democratic caucus. that is been an issue for representative gottheimer and others. are you, as the leadership and crucially are the progressives because you need their votes, willing to negotiate on tax hikes in that broader deal to pay for it? is that a red line issue? listen, jim, we are first and foremost legislators.