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drone strike was [inaudible] was that the only option you guys used? was there any other option to stop that bomb in the vehicle in i will let the general i ll ask the general to provide context. only thing i would say is that we ve used the word dynamic a lot. it sounds like pentagon speak. but that s really how the best way to describe the threats we re facing dynamic, moving, fluid, quick. because that s how isis-k operates. and we have to try to be as quick and nimble as they are. and when you have what we believe to be an imminent threat and we believe this to be an imminent threat we took the action we believed was the most necessary at the best opportunity to thwart that attack. commanders will always minimize collateral damage. that is one of the key tenets of how we operate. in this case like mr. kirby said, that this strike prevented a high-profile attack against both coalition u.s. forces and other afghan civilians. and so as we look at the informat ....
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are natalie fahy, editor of the nottingham post, and john stevens, the daily mail s deputy political editor. tomorrow s front pages, starting with. the sea was closed , the metro quotes foreign secretary dominic raab s defence at being on holiday as afghanistan fell to the taliban, saying in hindsight he should have come home earlier. the times also leads on afghanistan, quoting uk defence secretary ben wallace as saying not everyone is going to get out nobody s coming , the guardian front page features testimonies from britons trapped in kabul awaiting evacuation. the telegraph focuses on the nhs, saying the nhs has drawn up plans to vaccinate 12 year olds from the first weeks schools go back. covid vaccines feature on the daily mirror front page as well, saying medics have demanded urgent boosterjabs among fears immunity among the elderly could plunge by half. and harr ....
the taliban blocking stranded americans from leaving afghanistan and threatening the lives of our allies and joe biden thanking nancy pelosi for her masterful work on a pork filled spending program. it s bizarre. it s embarrassing. meanwhile, infrastructure week for the taliban, too. but instead of building roads, they are blocking them so that ourafghan allies who we promiseo help can t get to the airport. the taliban s message to america is loud and clear. get out now. we want them to evacuate all foreign nationals by august 31st. and we are not in favor of allowing afghans to leave. jesse: president joe biden s response sir, yes, sir. and in fact, tonight, the u.s. has already begun troops defending the airport while thousands of americans remain stranded. joe biden says we don t have a choice. the longer we stay, the more dangerous it gets. every day we re on the ground is another day we note that isis k. is seeking to target the airport and attack both u.s. a ....
getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them? i will talk to you about just bottlenecks. i talked a little bit about that earlier. as we those that depart kabul and get to those staging bases within u com or centcom, that s the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased through-put, increased that number that they are able to hold there centcom and u com are continuing to coordinate together and what the joint staff and trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to continue to leave kabul. so as we look at those on kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. we still expect the through-put that we saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck at others. we continue to manage that on an hourly/minute basis so we know where to fly people to. do y ....
flooding the airport. some dying in the process. bill: the pentagon will brief in 60 minutes and well oh he carry that live. it will work to fly out as many as possible over the coming weeks. that is going to be a proper cities. process. the taliban formed a barrier around the airport, not letting anybody inside a certain area of the perimeter. dana: look at this photo here. more than 600 people crammed into an american airplane headed for qatar. they were told the flight crew let them remain on board. bill: the biden administration arguing it was inevitable. republicans calling that argument absurd. it goes to show how full of crap the administration really are. they are trying to play it both ways. they re trying to say we knew they weren t going to be able to protect things and that s why we were getting out. didn t matter if we stayed a month or year. they didn t care and we see the consequences. we didn t blame them we dealt with them and confronted t ....