Getting people on planes and those planes in the air because there is nowhere to receive them . I will talk to you about just bottlenecks. I talked a little bit about that earlier. As we those that Depart Kabul and get to those staging bases within U Com or centcom, thats the coordination i was talking about earlier to insuring that we place, you know, evacuees in one of those 14 locations to prevent a bottleneck so as our increased throughput, increased that number that they are able to hold There Centcom and U Com are continuing to coordinate together and what the joint Staff And Trans com of where to put those evacuees to allow flights to continue to leave kabul. So as we look at those on kabul, there is no constraint of allowing flights to leave today. We still expect the throughput that We Saw in the last two days to be able to continue with no bottleneck at others. We continue to manage that on an hourly Minute Basis so we know where to fly people to. Do you have enough people in
Afghanistan. As the Pentagon Chief and other top leaders head to Capitol Hill to brief House Members. Good morning. Im Garrett Haake in for hallie jackson. Lots to get to this hour. We start with courtney kube, Kelly Odonnell and john hudson, national Security Reporter for the washington post. Courtney, walk us through what were hearing from your sources about that decision expected from the President Today and why he has to make it now with the deadline not actually until next week . Remember, even if the deadline is August 31st, its still going to take several days, somewhere potentially in three to four days to get the nearly 6,000 u. S. Troops out Of Kabul international airport. And then theres also the equipment thats there. The u. S. Has artillery, mraps, aircraft, helicopters. If they were to get all those people and Equipment Out it will take several days. You have to back time from the deadline of August 31st until, you know, three or four days back. That puts you at The End o
That s a technical pentagon term. the drawdown of both people and equipment will be done in the same manner that we would do it anywhere else. obviously there is a strong bias to be able to get our material out with our people. if there needs to be destruction or other disposition of equipment there at the airport we ll do that appropriately. can i ask you about the bottleneck? you got 20,000 people out in the past 24 hours, a big number. do you have 20,000 people now inside the airport to get out in the next 24 hours, or are there bottlenecks preventing people from getting in and