were taking over the afghan government and taking over parts of afghanistan, he said, they have to fighter this themselves, talking about afghan troops. and here of course, just 24 hours later, you see this reversal where we re seeing u.s. troop heading to afghanistan. i thought what was very interesting was john kirby, the pentagon spokesperson, said, those troops that initial withdrawal is still going to be ongoing, but wouldn t give a deadline for when the 3,000 troops for the narrowly focused civilian mission, whether or not they ll be gone by august 31st some we could see this new round of troops in afghanistan longer than the original withdrawal date that. provides a political problem for the president. there are a lot of republicans including lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell, who were pointedly critical of president biden and by the way, former president
all of that in addition to the 650 who are there. thanks, everybody. of the immigrants, though, is that just transportation, or are they helping processing their applications. really? all right, you were just listening to the pentagon spokesperson john kirby taking questions from reporters after the united states announced it s sending troops back the afghanistan in what u.s. officials are describing as a narrowly defined mission to help reduce the number of american personnel in the u.s. embassy there in kabul based on the deteriorating situation. as we mentioned we re following this breaking news on multiple fronts. just before the pentagon officials spoke, we heard from the state depp as well. we re going to wrap up all of that for you. the united states announced this drawdown in embassy personnel saying the department of defense will send in about 3,000 troops
military equipment to saudi arabia and the uae to announce their ability to defend themselves. reporter: time on other allies saying they need to step up and condemn these attacks. the international community has a responsibility to protect the global economy and international rules and norms. reporter: it came with a disclaimer. donald trump s assurance the us doesn t want war, never has. the president claimed he s making progress on his commitment to bring 5000 soldiers home from afghanistan. we are reducing in afghanistan, we have been very effective. is keeping a range of options in his back pocket. if we wanted to do a certain method of war we can do it very quickly. tens of millions of people would be killed. reporter: the pentagon spokesperson, the mission in afghanistan hasn t changed and
will this have with assad s relationship with russia? does it make them double down horn the? according to my sources there was an involved back and forth between dod and the white house about the scope of the discuss going much bigger. were they going to hit military facilities in addition to the chemical weapons depots and the research center? they went to the measured approach, specifically, the military insulations have russians and possibly arraign n i iranian citizens working in them. we re reasserting the status quo. we are going to allow iran and russia to back president assad in the various crimes he s committing. at the same time, we are going to try to send a message about chemical weapons. one of the statements over the weekend that got attention was dana white, the pentagon spokesperson, saying this is going to help the end of the syrian civil war. a lot of people are scratching their heads, how it is going to happen. michael, you were the last american journalist
chuck, it does seem they thought that the military would rally around them, that that would give them the protection, if you will, political protection from dealing through the qataris with the taliban. right, there would be some sort of as you said rally around the principle of leave no man behind. if you take one of the quotes from the pentagon spokesperson today that appeared in the new york times, it was interesting, when somebody goes overboard in a navy ship, it doesn t matter whether they were pushed or fell or something else happened, or they jumped themselves, the boat turns around and goes and gets them. that wasn t necessarily what they were saying on sunday. on sunday they thought there would be u for ya around this, the only p o.o.w. in afghanista there would be a rally around the flag. that didn t happen.