allies and partners who have people there and as a general briefed very much a part of moving people out. have those allies commune indicated to the united states they need more time? not aware of that. the perimeter i m having a hard time understanding when the president talked expanding the perimeter, who is part of that? is that u.s. forces? have they moved where they are positioned from where they were a few days ago? i want to be careful here. to talk about specific movements at a tactical level on any given day. i will not do that and i know it will be unsatisfying but let me finish. so that as caveat, we continue to look at security on the airport itself as well as the immediate environs of the airport. because in those immediate environ us outside the airport
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