wouldn t be a genuine thing for me to assert. there was certainly there was certainly a pull-off of the kinds of missions we were trying to do to be table accommodate that visit. bill: to be clear the two congressmen took seats that would have been for refugees leaving and took time away from the mission. they certainly took time away from what we had been planning to do that day. and i don t know on the aircraft, they did fly out on a military aircraft. i honestly don t know what the seat capacity was on that aircraft but they are out of the country now. just one more question on withdrawal in the coming days. since the president has said setting contingency planning aside that everyone will be out by august 31st.
0 admiral and the general aren t working in in a very personal way with taliban authorities outside the airport. let me go another one on the phone. tara. thank you for doing this, john. yesterday the president mentioned also that he was calling upon the department to create contingency plans in case the number of americans and afghans haven t gotten out by the 31st. can you just explain kind of what the department is thinking about what its options might be to continue to get americans out after the 31st if they haven t made it to the airport by then? and then just to follow on jeff s question with afghans that aren t getting through, for those have discussions gone on with the taliban to maybe find some negotiation space for they ve said no more afghans can clear but there are 10,000 at the airport. something is happening behind the scenes helping some people get through. can you talk about that to some extent? i ll start with the last question first. kind of comes off of some