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Taliban. i want to know if afghanistan going to be a breeding ground, a training ground for terrorism and what can we do now that we don t have a presence there to make sure that s not the case. but also, chris, i think first and foremost, how can we support the efforts to get americans and those who assisted us out of harm s way to america, credit to the administration now they re well over 30,000 people who have left the country. but we need to stay as long as we can to get anyone who s in a harm s way, american or who helped us. intel officials knew that afghan government, knew the possibility this would happen and the president has said this was never going to be pretty, essentially. are you satisfied with what you have heard so far about the decisions being made? yes, the decision to made well, not the decision, the planning for, but how to prepare to get people out of there ....
You details in a timely manner. as you know recently the secretary of defense activated the stage 1 of the civil reserve air fleet. right now that activation includes 18 aircraft from six commercial airlines. this will increase passenger movement from the intermediate staging bases, temporary safe havens to the united states. while we continue to prioritize million tear aircraft for the transportation of individuals out of kabul and out of harm s way. note as i said these craft flights will not be flying into kabul. as of this morning within the last 24 hours 25 u.s. military c-17s, three u.s. military dana: 130s and a combination of 61 charter, commercial and other military flights departed kabul. total passenger count for those flights was approximately ....
As high as 300,000 because port-au-prince, the capital city, is so densely populated. this area is a lot more sparse in terms of population, it s very rural. it s mountainous as well. there are lots of remote villages. but thankfully, people aren t as congested as they are in port-au-prince. having said that, it s also harder to get to because these regions are remote. we ve seen different bridges that have collapsed, different roads that were never finished building out also being impassable. i know some rescue workers, humanitarian workers have been dealing with gangs that are trying to monetize and take advantage of the situation in terms of letting them have safe passage to go and continue to lend a hand. so the actual mission of getting to these folks and getting as many survivors as possible out of harm s way may be delayed because of some of these infrastructure problems we have ....
Congested as they are in port-au-prince. these we ve different collapse and bridges that were never finished building out also being impassable. humanitarian workers have been dealing with gangs that are trying to monetize and take advantage of the situation in terms of letting them have safe passage to go and continue to lend a hand. so the actual mission of getting to these folks and getting as many survivors as possible out of harm s way may be delayed because of some of these infrastructure problems we have and some of the sociopolitical problems that haiti continues to experience can you elaborate on the sociopolitical problems? the context in which you are watching and understanding this all happen, and for you, as a ....
Community, but who knows? so basically we ve got to wrap this thing up pretty rapidly. it could all come apart in a week or in 90 days. no one knows. director brennan, if i hear you correctly, you are describing something more nuanced than a failure of the intelligence community to assess either the weaknesses of the afghan security forces or the strengths of the taliban, which seemed the same as they ve largely been for the last 20 years. you re describing a psychological aspect that may have been lost between the two. can you explain that a little further? well, i worked very closely with then-vice president biden during the obama administration, and i know he was very interested in removing our soldier s out of harm s way in iraq and afghanistan. so, you know, his heart is certainly in the right place and i think he wanted to do that as quickly as possible. but, again, i think the announcement that we were going to continue to follow through with some of the commitments that the ....