Thousands are holding out home stuck outside of the walls of Kabul Airport waiting with no Guarantee Theyll be able to be safely evacuated, in a new interview, he is defending his call to pull off troops from afghanistan. You dont think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes . No. I dont think it could have been handled in a way that were going to go back in Hindsight And Look and to think that there is a way to get out without chaosen chaosenuing, you dont know how that happens. Even if americans and our afghan allies are still trying to get out, theyre going to leave. Were going to do everything in our power to get all americans and our allies out. Does that means troops will stay beyond August 31st if necessary. If depends on where we are and whether we could ramp the numbers up to 5,000 to 7,000 a day coming out. If that is the case, theyll all be out. Because we have like 10 to 15,000 americans in the country right now, right . And are you committed to making
Bill terrified women have been begging u. S. Soldiers for help there. Dana desperate parents are hoisting children over Checkpoint Barriers pleading with american and british troops to put them on the next flight out. Bill if you leave 2500, do you keep the peace there. Do you need to increase it is what this administration is arguing . If we say well have to surge forces and we dont want to do that. More from the interview on abc now. Top Military Advisors warned against it and wanted you to keep 2500 troops. , no they didnt. It was split. That is not true. We should keep 2500 troops. We can do and continue to do that. No one said that to me that i can recall. You dont think this could have been handled better in any way, no mistakes . President biden no, i dont think it could have been handled in a way back in Hindsight And Look. Bill listen to this carefully. A clip they released Last Night. Much more this morning on abc. He is Hell Bent on getting out of afghanistan and damn the co
Tell us where we are in terms of both getting u. S. Military personnel into the country and the evacuations getting folks out. Reporter so the pace has really stepped up. Look back to where evacuations ground to a halt. They could not get troops in, People Out. Operations have been flowing for several days and now getting up wards of 20 flights in and out every day, every 24 hours. So nearly one an hour. Theyre moving hundreds of people. The big problem continues to be getting these people to the airport safely. So, what we know and ill set this up for our viewers. The airport has two sides, Civilian Side and the military side. Right now, the taliban have checkpoints that are really surrounding both sides of the airport. The u. S. Military has been in touch, in direct talks really, with the taliban there on the ground. These sort of technical talks where they discuss things like the situation under which they will allow americans through these checkpoints. But afghans are still having
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Secretary of interior. We are going to do that when we get a quorum. We need to have 11. Whenever we do we might break from hearing, whoever he speak at the time to get sometimes its hard to keep 11 but if we have 11 walk in the door will pause at the time, do our Business Meeting and get right back to our hearing. I believe he will be an outstanding Deputy Secretary. He is expense, he knows the department of interior and is familiar with the wide range of issues that come before us. He has braces or as a first right the bureau of Ocean Energy Management and Assistant Assistt Secretary for land and Minerals Management and as chief of staff of the department. He excluded in the street he is both a Firm Grasp of the issues and the ability to listen and learn and work with all sides and to find commonsense solutions. I believe centage on both sides of the aisle will find that he is someone they can work with. His performance in a in a o receive it in the street he has knowledge and expand