this temporary removal of the remaining personnel works. what if that is not enough to protect that area from the taliban? if they're sending in 3,000 people to get out 2,500, is 600 enough? >> i'm confident our military understand the missions that protect the homeland from an attack emanating out of afghanistan. the precise number of people on the ground is something that we focused on. the threat is not from the taliban. it's from the fact that the taliban will play footsies with terrorists like al-quaida. fewer than 20 al-quaida remaining in afghanistan. that's the target to protect america. we're goodness, three weeks out, four weeks out from the 20th anniversary from an athat can that came from that place. president trump made very to me, the state department that our mission set was clear. we wanted to make sure that we always had the conditions based analysis that would protect america, at least reduce the