do a little pole vaulting here. ryan, that s kind of the long game. let me bring it back to the hearing we re going to see in about an hour and 45 minutes. so much of the hearings previously have hung on the credibility of previous witnesses, and i would say notably hutchinson, who was so impressive and so detailed. like many before her, she also had been very loyal to donald trump. tell us what we know about today s witnesses, their loyalty, their credibility. one of the witnesses is actually a former member of the oepgt keepers, the reformed member, so to speak, who is going to offer an historical look at the oath keepers as an organization. he s been out of the oath keepers for a while. so i don t think we re going to hear anything directly about january 6th. the one i m really interested in is stephen aiers, a january 6th defendant. when news of his testimony came up, i was speaking with online sleuths who are concerned about this. he s a wildcard, the idea of putting someone i
clear sense of how many people right now. harris: the last reporter, i think what she was getting at we re not in a foxhole together fighting side-by-side with the taliban but you have to have a pretty good understanding on boepgt both sides how this is going to go if you depend on the taliban to give you access to your citizens. somebody negotiated that. publicly, the taliban aren t playing with august 31. what will it look like september 1st? that s revealing from the briefing. the math don t add up. if you get all u.s. troops which stand rough life acknowledge 7,000 or slightly less, you have to get those troops out by august 31st as well. after everybody else. which takes two to three days and one of the things one of the reporters asked. john kirby didn t disagree. you have four or five days to get out an untold number.
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