help when and where we can to help americans move toward the gates. we won t talk the details of every one of those but we have the capabilities. do you foresee authorize additional troops to go in should you have a hard stop at august 31st and you have the ramp up capacity again, do you foresee authorizing i don t think it would be helpful to get ahead of where we are now. no plans at this time to request or to authorize additional u.s. forces to this mission. are troops leaving the airport on a regular basis. i still don t understand what s going on. our commanders have, as needed, the authority that they need to use their assets and forces to help assist americans who need to get to the airport get to the airport on a
0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and that s what the president was referring to. i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little more specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers were the taliban first. i would like to go back to the deadline. the french foreign minister said today that it s quote, necessary to continue the afghanistan evacuation beyond august 31. can t rule out who the hostile actor was in the incident last night. central command s statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. this just happened. i don t know when we ll have