quote, highly likely in the next 24 to 36 hours. and the president has directed hem to do what they must to protect themselves. but the troops have begun withdrawing or retrograde as the military calls it. pentagon press secretary john kirby confirmed that today. have u.s. troops begun retrograde withdrawal from an airport? we have begun retrograding. can you say anything about the number left? no, i cannot. it s been a breathtaking week of developments at home and abroad. let s catch our breath while we can. with our saturday night panel catherine lucy is a reporter for the wall street germ. allonzo boden is a comedian and host of the radio show allonzo boden who s paying attention. good to see the three of you. and before we dive in, i just wanted to get into a quick development out of kabul regarding the threat on the ground. we have just received a release from the u.s. embassy in
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first of all, isis-k, the group that carried out the attack last week, is actually an enemy of the taliban and they have clashed with them before. so in some ways this is kind of for domestic/political consumption to convey the idea they re in charge and they re not tolerating these kinds of things. also, the u.s. reserves the right to go after terrorist groups that have attacked americans. so i think we could see more strikes like this in the future if the opportunities present themselves and if u.s. officials believe that they re worth taking against this group that carried out that horrendous bombing last week. in the meantime, the u.s. military is beginning to withdraw. what the pentagon calls retrograde operations, and the pentagon press secretary, john kirby, was asked about this today at the briefing. let s hear what he had to say. reporter: have u.s. troops begun retrograde withdrawal from
have u.s. troops begun retrograde withdrawal from the airport? we have begun retrograding. can you say anything about the number who have left? no, i cannot. and general taylor, for you, please, the numbers of military aircraft who have left are relatively consistent with where they ve been for several days, but the number of passengers is down from where it was. does that mean that the u.s. is now starting to move some equipment, military equipment on those or planes are going out not full? as we ve said, you know, our mission to continuing evacuating those as required and to meet the mission requirement by august 31st, is what the commanders are executing. does that mean you re start to go take some equipment out on the aircraft or do you not have enough passengers there is equipment leaving on those flights that was originally planned. and if i could ask one more. since have there been any attacks that can be talked about how the taliban had thwarted