Hundreds more leaving daily. Could make it difficult to get people that are trapped outside of the Kabul Air And wanted american help. What is interesting to know And why were going to go to this pentagon briefing, in each And every cases of these rescues outside the perimeter, the taliban has done nothing to disrupt the efforts or to interfere at all. Thats raising concerns at the same time hope that there could be more of these missions to get more americans out. Before i go to John Kirby, another development that you heard in the last hour, this notion that we might have all of 4500 americans left there. Thats hard to quantify And seems like a guess. But if that is correct, it does sort of dispute the other numbers that weve seen. Furthermore, records that theres 1,500 that might remain And many that might not want to go well explore that in more detail And try to understAnd how that could possibly be. Meantime, lets go to the briefing. Well make the right plans to do that. By And l
Afghanistan in the last 24 hours. it involves 90 u.s. military and other international flights to the rate of one plane every 39 minutes. i don t know if it s still maintaining that pace. the argument is at that rate, tens of thousands more could be out of the country certainly by next week, august 31, the deadline. we started out with 6,000 troops. the flip side of this is there s fewer troops now as they draw down to help in this rescue effort. complicated by the fact that now we re down to 5500, 6,000 troops and going down at a rate of a few hundred per day. and colonel mcguinness, what do you make of this? i guess what is sticking in my thick skull here is that the 1,500 americans that supposedly remain, that seems like a low
400 troops have departed. there s dozens that include apache gun ships. the attack hell continue earns will be put on transport flights. that s not the case for the $85 billion abandoned. last night in the period of darkness, there was a mission to go out and safely evacuate evacuees in kabul. outside of the air field? yes. and we brought them back to kabul safely. sandra: moments ago we learned there were no americans rescued on the last helicopter rescue mission. pentagon is refusing to say who was rescued. neil? neil: you know, lucas, i m curious about this isis k. it s a splitter group. they don t get along with the
Promote more such activity to get americans and others outside the airport to the airport. there was a limit, i get a sense from the general and john kirby himself especially when we draw down the troops that we have. started with 5,600 and phasing them out hundreds per day. where it all ends next tuesday when the deadline calls for all u.s. personnel to be out of the country entirely. let s get the latest read on this from lucas tomlinson at the pentagon. these numbers and the figures they re using, they seem startling. they re sticking largely to this 1,500 left. is that supported by others that you talked to? good afternoon, neil. that s right. there s about up to 1,500 americans still remaining in afghanistan. secretary of state tony blinken
there s a report out by relatives of americans in sharif saying the woman has had permission to leave that base to go to kabul to leave. would that fall would helping that american citizen who has gotten permission on their own from the taliban to get from sharif to kabul, would that be in this sweet of capabilities that the pentagon has? no. i m glad i got a chance to follow up. when i said outside kabul, i m talking about relatively close by. i don t want to set the expectations that we re going to be able to fly all over the country to pick up people. you heard the secretary himself say that there s a limit to the capability that we have here. when we can help and if we need rotary wing aircraft to help, we ll do it. we ll talk about it to you. i won t give you detail of every