because quite frankly our government hasn t done it. thousands of americans across this country are organizing to get our friends out because our government failed to do it. and general, the taliban we heard that the goal is to get everyone out by august 31st. we heard the president say, suggest yesterday that they are can make plans for expanding, extending beyond that deadline if need be. the taliban this morning saying, no, the u.s. all u.s. forces must be out of afghanistan by the 31st. i m just curious kind of your thoughts on if this if push comes to shove and they re up against this deadline, what the united states does. i think what you ll see and that s why press secretary kirby refused to answer the question, is there is continuing negotiation with the taliban and the taliban is not going to in my view, is not going to stand in the way of an extension
given this arrangement, does this mean that the taliban is for better or worse now in a better position to essentially dictate when we leave? i can t answer that. what i do know is that our continued mission, which we were given, was to secure the airfield and to ensure to facilitate the evacuation by august 31st and refer back to the comments that mr. kirby already made about the august 31st date. and we ve covered this pretty well about august 31st. megan? so the vaccine rollout plan, is the idea now that pfizer will become mandatory and the secretary will wait until mid september to ask for moderna and johnson & johnson or will they become fully licensed? the focus is on the pfizer vaccine and moving forward to