forward, but they will make their own determinations. mr. secretary, thank you. but the taliban right now focusing on the mission right now are not living up to their commitments. people are being stopped trying to get into the airport. i m talking about, you know, women, sivs, others, afghans, people with papers and they are being stopped outside the airport now. there are total bottlenecks which rise to the level of what the president said were the contingencies if the taliban is not complying if the flow can t continue. we re loading planes but some planes are leaving without and some people who have private planes are waiting for them with landing rights but can t get into the airport as well as beyond the sivs there are law, there are judges, women lawyers, judges, educators. we told them for 20 years you can live up to your potential and now they feel abandoned and
i would finally like to ask you about the local hires. we evacuated our embassy and there have been abilities back that i know you must be fwam or your teams are of people who feel completely betrayed, and these are thousand of people that we rely on in embassies around the world. the message is going forward that we will not be loyal. they were not told about the evacuation. they were not put on those choppers with our american staff, and they were forced, many of them, to find their own way through the taliban checkpoints and get turned away at the airport. some even got turned away once they were inside. so what is the message to people working for the u.s. government, veterans groups are angry the sivs and there s the millions of a gan women who have told their daughters who have been raised under this promise of a future which the taliban alreadyings according to the ambassador today, are denying.
that we use every appropriate tool at our disposal to isolate that government and as i said before afghanistan will be a pariah. what will happen on september 1st? will the u.s. keep any diplomatic and/or any other kind of presence in kabul at all and who will run the airport? is there any discussions with the turkz or any other measures being taken? there are active efforts under way on the part of regional countries to to see whether they can play a role in keeping the airport open once our military mission leaves or as necessary reopening it if it
be done at the airport or frankly anywhere else in the country since they are not in the u.s. s eyes a legally recognized government? thank you. thank you. our focus right now is on getting our citizens and getting other partners, afghan partners, third country partners working in afghanistan with us out of the country and to safety. for that purpose, first the taliban whether we like it or not is in control, largely in control of the country. certainly control of the city of kabul and it s been important to work with them to try to facilitate an ensure departure of those who want the leave. that has been something that we have been focused on from the beginning of this operation because as a practical matter,
depart for a range of reasons as we ve also outlifnltd i would also note that a big factor on the president s mind and the secretary of state noted this as well is the real threat of isis-k which is the reason why and the president again received a briefing on that as he does regularly from his national security team. that is why we re concerned about numbers around the airport. that is why we are in direct contact through a range of means of individuals on when and how to come to the airport and that is something that we have to evaluate each day as well because putting our service men and women at risk is something that weighs heavily on the president s mind. and a question on the supreme court. sure. the supreme court basically kicking back on the remain in mexico. what s the white house response to that? i know the department of homeland security put out a statement on this last evening so let me reiterate some of those points. we respectfully disagree with