americans out. we re over 5,100 americans that have been evacuated since august 14th. 6,000 was the estimate that secretary of state tony blinken offered early her. then the question is what happens after august 31st? the president indicated that efforts to get people out would continue. but without the military there, what does that look like? the taliban, you heard psaki say this several times, this is not a matter of trusting them. they believe they have leverage over the taliban to facilitate an on going effort. does that include state department personnel? something of make shift embassy there at the airport? what other efforts are going on including with the turks to secure the airport? this is very interesting period that we re heading into. once they engage in the very sensitive and very dangerous as they endlessly been repeating over the last few days period that we re in the next few days. then jeff, just to underscore what a perilous moment there is with the white house, you
0 evacuating more people from the country over the coming days and completing the mission to the 31st, and what it means to move to retrograde phase is that there is a rereduction of numbers through the coming days and we will tell you twice a day to show you how we are evacuating the people over the country and the numbers will be going down in the next couple of days and you should anticipate that as part of the retrograde process that needs to take place and the force protection is front and center and vital to the mission. one more, president biden told reporters in oval office when meeting with the prime minister about booster shots, and can you tell us about the information of what is the information about that projection well, let me be clear, the president would rely on guidance of the cdc and the health and experts, and that guidance continues to be eight months. that has not changed, so i want to be clear on that. if they were to change their guidance based on the data