but the president acknowledged few hundred americans left, thousands more afghan allies left to be evacuated. he acknowledged yesterday in his remarks that not all of them are going to make their way to the airport and on those flights out of kabul. what do you say to the afghans who helped troops who may not be able to get by august 31st? i say what do you say to them? we re going to try to get you out. it matters. getting every single person out is can t be guaranteed by anybody. now, of course the president has said that efforts to extract people who deserve to get out by virtue of having helped american military activities and nato military activities will continue past august 31st. obviously that will be much much more difficult without the u.s. military. it will depend on cooperation
coalition forces began the evacuation, approximately 111,000 evacuees have departed safely. the state department counselor officers continue to screen and process people arriving at gates around kabul. some gates have been close and we reported but american citizens, siv applicants and vulnerable afghans with the designated and proper credentials will continue to be processed for departure from the airfield. there is still approximately 5,400 individuals on the airport as of this report awaiting for flights out of afghanistan. we have the ability to include evacuees on u.s. military airlift out of afghanistan until the very end. the department of defense has the continued responsibility to support the state department in the ongoing movement evacuees through our intermediate staging
afghanistan. they trusted the taliban to protect americans. we never did that. we trusted america to protect america s interests at every turn. joe biden is to blame. robert gates said it best. hasn t been a foreign policy decision joe biden made in the last 40 years that s been any good. when you project weakness from the oval office as joe biden does, bad guys do bad things. dana: trey yingst with the latest in qatar. good morning. good morning. those explosions yesterday killing 13 u.s. service members and at least 95 afghans. overnight local hospitals treating dozens of people wounded outside a abbey gate. evacuations are ongoing. the pentagon says more than 12,000 people were airlifted out of kabul in the past 24 hours bringing the total since the rescues began to more than 100,000 people. the clock is ticking.
misreported or garrbled. we felt it was important to correct the record with you all here. you ve now seen that we have updated our casualty list to include a 13th service member killed in action. [ no audio ] i could report that two flights landed at ramstein. these personnel was transferred to the medical center and are receiving care. in kabul, commanders on ground continue to assess the risk and the dynamic situation there as they have have been since the beginning. forced protection remains paramount with the continued threat. we ve continued the evacuation mission yesterday as you saw as
i think it s important bill: with us now by telephone we re calling him carl. he is in kabul. he has made multiple attempts to leave that country. jen wilson, the coo of army week association working from her apartment from new york city working day and night helping interpreters leave the country. first to carl if you can hear me okay. 24 hours ago right about now you were describing to us that awful scene at the gate at the airport in kabul and you told us about a 5-year-old child who died in your arms and you were the first one, carl, to tell us about american casualties. how are you doing today? where are you today? and are you any closer to catching one of the last planes out? thanks for having me. i am in kabul. yesterday was the first time i have tried to reach out to the