airport. by necessity, that is our option to coordinate with to get american citizens out, to gets our afghan partners out, individuals eligible for the range of programs the united states has out. we have evacuated 105,000 people as result of those coordinated in large part of the coordinated efforts of getting people out. i will say that as department of defense noted earlier today, clearly something went wrong here in the process. we saw the isis-k attack occur yesterday. we don t have additional information to suggest that it was intentional or anything along those lines, which was a question asked yesterday. clearly there was a break in the security process, no question about that. john: admiral, whether pacific commander or head of com some years back, she said we don t trust the taliban, entrusting them to security and
information to suggest that it was intentional or anything along those lines, a question that was asked yesterday. clearly, there was a break in the security process here, no question about that. about the security threats in the world. this has always been something the president [indiscernible] what you have seen over the course of the last several days that makes this moment different than what the president was citing? sec. of state psaki: i can t get into specific details from here, the reason we put this out publicly the way we did. yesterday there was an attack by terroristss that killed 13 members of the u.s. military. it is important for us as the government to be clear about what threat our u.s. forces are
to suggest that it was intentional or anything along those lines. which was a question i was asked yesterday. but clearly there was a break in the security process here. there s no question about that. earlier i spoke to our correspondent barbara plett usher in washington about how the relationship between the united states and taliban may evolve. basically what administration officials do is focus on what is actually happening. they say there has a tactical arrangement at the moment because both at the same interest. which is getting the evacuation completed by august 31. they are working on the ground in a practical way to facilitate that evacuation. they do all say so did mr biden say that they don t trust the taliban. they wait and see what the taliban. they wait and see what the taliban. they wait and see what the taliban does. in terms of this tactical arrangement, the military generals has said they ve seen results from it. that they have
0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and center and vital to the mission. one more, president biden told reporters in oval office when meeting with the prime minister about booster shots, and can you tell us about the information of what is the information about that projection well, let me be clear, the president would rely on guidance of the cdc and the health and experts, and that guidance continues to be eight months. that has not changed, so i want to be clear on that. if they were to change their guidance based on the data
presence in different parts of the world plays a role in national security. the united states made a quick decision to withdraw from afghanistan and a lot of analysts saying that a quick withdrawal, a rapid withdrawal could be a very dangerous withdrawal. so you have to consider the fact that the israelis and other u.s. allies in the region will be looking at this decision and the consequences of this decision and wondering how much they can rely on the united states when it comes to foreign policy. we saw u.s. allies, nato allies of the united states, great britain, france, germany, urge president biden over the past week please extend the deadline. we don t want to rush the security process. we don t want to have these crowds of people outside the airport. they knew the threats were a real possibility. today with these two explosions on the ground in kabul, it raises a lot of questions about what happens not only in the coming days, but in the coming hours. there are thousands of ame