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as i said, we are engaging with the taliban, consulting with the taliban on every aspect of what is happening in kabul right now, and on what is happening at the airport, and how we need to ensure that there is facilitated passage to the airport for american citizens, sivs, third-country nationals and so forth. we will continue the conversations with them, and ultimately, it is the president s decision how this proceeds and no one else s. and you said that we have the wherewithal to get the americans out, and forgive me to make sure that i get the statement right, but you did not say that we have the ability to get them out, and by the time frame of august 31st as i have said before, and the president believes that we have time to get out any american who wants to get out. yes. yes. i want to ask that you said that you have said multiple times and the president has said that you ....
Americans leave kabul already. we have contacted americans still in afghanistan by email, by phone, by text, to give them specific instructions. we have developed a method the safely and efficiently transfer groups of american citizens on to the airfield. for operational reasons, i won t go into further detail on this. people have asked reasonably why we can t provide a precise number of people in country. let me explain. when the americans have come to afghanistan over the years, we have asked them to register with the embassy, and many have left without deregistering, and others never register at all that is their right of course, and it is our responsibility to find them which we are now doing hour-by-hour. in the days remaining, we believe that we have the wherewithal to get out the american citizens who want to leave kabul. this operation is complex. it is dangerous. it is fraught with challenges, ....
That exceededen the optimistic expectations in terms of the number of folks who could get out, and the fact is that we are actually overperforming in terms of the evacuation numbers, and therefore we need a higher ceiling in terms of beds, and other facilities, and transit centers. but you can t go from the standing start, and zero the yes in 24 hours. this something that we have prepared and prepositioned with allies over time so that when we pick up the phone and call, and they don t say, what are you asking for? they know that the ask has gone from 5,000 cap to 10,000 cap, and they adjust accordingly, and that is going to be because of of the painstaking preparations over months. and are you just getting americans out in kabul? we are trying to get americans out wherever they may ....
Americans who have been evacuated and we are working on the best. do you have anything specific or the people traveling with documentation or can you not answer that, are they not traveling with documentation? the reason that we can t give you a precise number is because not every single person puts themselves in a database at the embassy. and so it is not their responsibility, and so our responsibility is to work through every means possible to contact them as well as we could of the folks holding the passports to bring them to the airport. and with the americans saying that we need to get out, and how many americans have you taken? oh, see. we can get you the precise number on that. one other clarification. you said that you could get all americans out of kabul, and did you mean kabul or the entire country, and second, one of the things that you all bragged ....
Leaders of taliban? and the second question, president biden seems to be keeping the america first policy in the system. how can you say that america is back on the global stage after seeing this scenes in afghanistan. how do you think they re looking it at the united states or not? so on the second question, you look at the scenes of the kabul airport and what i see is the united states securing an airfield at the us are being of several thousand american troops to facilitate not just the evacuation of americans, but to facilitate the evacuation of third country nationals from friends and foes alike. and to facilitate the evacuation of tens of thousands of people who for humanitarian reasons want to leave afghanistan. there is no other country in the world that can pull something like this off, bar none. much with respect to whether or not the president biden is likely to speak with the ....