necessary steps, thorough steps in order to process individuals and get them moving through the system. go ahead. thanks, jen. at the tail end of the president s remarks today about cyber security he was asked about afghanistan and he made a joke. peter asked him that question. the other peter did, and he made a joke, so what s so fun? well, i think the question he was asked, if i remember correctly, was about when he ll provide information about a decision on august 31st? i don t want to paraphrase the question. if that s very important question because a lot of people are watching. what he conveyed is that he has not what i can convey from here is that as he stated yesterday and as the secretary of state just stated we re on track to complete our mission by august 31st. obviously there are discussions and the president received a briefing just this morning. as i noted he asked yesterday for contingency plans and received a briefing on them this
processes and procedures, so, no, we can t guarantee anyone anything but certainly we are also working with a range of countries around the world to ensure there are safe places for individuals who are fleeing from afghanistan and have safe places to be. do you foresee a situation where you might reject someone s as limb application and send them back to afghanistan? i don t anticipate that being the plan. thanks, jen is. the white house aware of any other members of congress planning to take a trip to afghanistan? i don t have any more information on that no. have you learned about how they made this trip, how they were able to get into the country? did they show up on any manifests or anything? you should ask their offices that question. and a question on cyber security in light of today s summit. does the white house believe that the private sector can make sufficient cyber security improvements without government mandate, or do you believe that
think as you know and you ve been following closely, we ve been deeply engaged with and involved with under the leadership of our samantha power who is the director of usaid. in terms of specific assistance and specific what we re let me get you updated numbers that we have provided as of today. i think the information i have is a day old. it s an ongoing process. thanks, jen. i wondered if you could give us a preview of the upcoming meeting with the israeli prime minister and if we can expect any announcements of the reopening. if not what s the status of those projects? sure. i know we did a briefing call to provide a call of that last night or i believe yesterday at some point in time. i will say that the president is looking forward to welcoming the prime minister who is already in town having a variety of
get more updates on the situation in that region. any moment now the white house press secretary jen saccy will do her daily briefing. we ll dip in when she takes questions on afghanistan and the p pentagon press secretary john kirby set to hold another briefing as well. we ll bring you that when it begins. here to start this hour, pbs newshour national correspondent and colonel christopher colenda who negotiated with the taliban in peace talks and the author of sero sum victory, what we re getting wrong with war and hopefully joining us in a moment here as well nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. amma want to start with you at this point. we re seeing we heard a lot of detail from the secretary of state in that briefing. we re also at the same time seeing a lot of frustration in the cia and the pentagon and
0 these are known passport holders. okay. but have have lprs also been contacted? yes. and what about siv applicants, people who are we re in contact will we get i m sorry. i don t expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began there s been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and there s been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you were dealt by the previous to deal with the taliban in terms of the siv program in terms of the broader refugee program. you guys have been in office for eight months. it s been five months since the president s decision was made. is there anything about the shortcomings have about been so readily identified by all sorts of people that you are actually willing to take responsibility for yourselves? thanks, matt. let me say two things. with regards to numbers in these different categories, as you ve