what s the policy about afghans in need now coming? they are still being processed and facilitated. given the number of people who are in hiding who were either siv recipients, some americans of afghan allies, why not reopen bagram air base and why not get an agreement from the qatar people to land in kandahar and elsewhere? we saw kandahar bring why not use the pakistanis and qataris to help bring people out? now you re just bringing people out from kabul. it is a choke point. first of all, the through put has improved and increased and i m not going to i don t think it would be a useful
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