siv applicants can be processed to the gates, at-risk afghans are absolutely being considered for entry. first of all, how many people have been killed at the airport. we hear reports of seven, nine, nato official told abc20 killed around the airport. what is the number? are you talking about afghans at the gates? adding the people killed on monday when the c-17 took off. two killed during skirmishs inside the airport. the guy killed today. what s the total number of people who died? i don t have exact numbers of that. so i can t answer the exact number right now. can you take that question and get back to me? absolutely. you mentioned the capacity was 5,800 troops at the airport rieft right now. the secretary of defense didn t have the ability to do
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