biden referred to the threat at the airport from this terror group known as isis k and he details his decision to stick with that august 31st deadline to leave afghanistan. that deadline just six days away now as the scramble to get out intensifies, one critical question has been, how many americans remain? this afternoon, the secretary of state put the number at about 1500. officials are in touch with about 500 of. them but are still reaching out to others. for the remaining roughly 1000 context that we have who maybe americans seeking to leave afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to the multiple times today. there is no deadline on our work to help any remaining american citizens who want to leave, along with many afghans. that effort will continue every day past august 31st. now the secretary said about 6000 americans we are in afghanistan when the taliban took control about two weeks ago he said over the past ten days over 4500 of those americans were evacuat
thank you. sylvie? i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little bit more specific and tell us if you can rule out that the attackers were taliban? first. and i would like also to go back to the deadline, the french foreign minister said today that it s, quote, necessary to continue the evacuations beyond august 31st. cannot rule out who the hostile actor was in this shooting incident last night. i think, as you saw, central command statement referred to it as a hostile actor. we don t know more than that. and this just happened, so i don t know when we ll have more forensics on this. again, our focus was on making sure that we could maintain security at the airport. it was maintained. sadly it resulted in the life of one afghan soldier and wounded several others. so, i mean, obviously that s our focus right now. on the deadline, i can t speak for other nation states. i can only speak for the department of defense, and you heard th
how will we know? i think also we have to understand that the taliban also has interests. they are not going to flatline now they re willing to extend the deadline. they want to show that they have control over afghanistan and they need to counter the isis threat. no one is going to say, sure, we re going to extend the deadline until you feel you re ready. what we do know, there s a classification who are already going to be u.s. citizens. they are going to third countries that are not the u.s. we are giving them security reviews, bio mettic reviews and health reviews. then they come to the u.s. where they get covid testing. just so people understand they re not being dropped in the united states. and the classic that was in review. those that you re hearing about are getting sped through. i do think it s likely that those who may have been worthy but did not get into the process will be left behind. it doesn t mean they ll never get out but getting out, i think, will be de
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