Readily identified by all sorts of people that you guys are willing to take responsibility for yourselves . Thanks. Let my say two things. First, with regards to the numbers, as youve seen by how i laid out how we get to the numbers of americans, this is both incredibly complicated and incredibly fluid. Any number i give you right now is likely to be out of date by the time we leave the briefing room. So what were doing is very carefully tabulating everything we have, cross checking it, using different databases. Well have numbers for the different categories in the days ahead and after this initial phase of efforts so bring people out of afghanistan. With regard to the second part of your question about taking responsibility. I take responsibility. I know the president has said he takes responsibility. I know all of my colleagues across government feel the same way. I can tell you that there will be plenty of time to look back at the last six or seven months, to look back at the last
I know our secretary of state spoke to this a few minutes ago. what i can add to it, we re going to continue to work with the united nations and allies and partners to provide assistance to those even without a presence on the ground. there s messages that we made clear to the taliban and i think secretary blinken reiterated this about what our the global community expects once we depart afghanistan. i ll tell you our commitment to the incredibly brave women and leaders and those in afghanistan that have fought alongside us, that have briefly stood not change our diminish even am
Your strategic advantage. martha: reports of taliban fighters beating up an afghan tv crew. it s not a good sign of the media and the free press under the leadership of these militants. i ll speak with a former producer and host for the same network that escaped after getting death threats and trying to get her mother and sister and family out of afghanistan right now. first greg palkot reporting live from clan london. martha, fox news has learned that more journalists have been attacked in kabul today. a reporter for total news, the
He noted also that of the 82,000 people that have been evacuated in all of this, about 45% women and children so far. but for those afghan allies that are clearly going to be abandoned, thousands perhaps if not tens of thousands are facing a very difficult new reality under taliban rule. martha? indeed. griff jenkins, thanks very much. we re waiting for jen psaki to come out. we expect more question and answer there. i want to bring you k.t. mcfarland from the trump administration and marc thiessen, american enterprise institute scholar and speechwriter for george w. bush. a couple quick questions here. 4,500 americans have been evacuated according to the secretary of state. he thinks the number is somewhere between 500 and 1,000 of those that are still remaining that want to get out. do those numbers sound correct to you? do you have any idea if they
Biggest in afghanistan, was beaten up, fighters and cameras confiscated even show they showed press i.d. this is not the first. take a listen to the chief of the media group. this is very concerning for us. if people are not safe venturing out and talking to people, literally one kilometer from the office, this is not like in the middle of nowhere, what is the future of a free media? the anchor for the same network interviewed a taliban official live in the studio talking about the harsh tone of the taliban. we have learned this week she s left the country along as others that were given the chance to evacuate. as the taliban challenged desperate people trying to flee the country at kabul s airport, they re challenging a free press that we watched grow for 20 years. the taliban has said that the