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Visit. and we are obviously not encouraging v.i.p. visits to a very tense, dangerous and dynamic situation at that airport and inside kabul generally. and the secretary i think would have appreciated the opportunity to have had a conversation before the visit took place. they got a chance to talk to commanders, as i understand and got a chance to talk to troops. but to say that there wasn t a need to flex and to alter the day s flow, including the need to have protection for these members of congress, that ....
Lawmakers to come to kabul unannounced? do you find it helpful for them to be there? we were not aware of this visit, and we are obviously not encouraging vip visits to a very tense, dangerous and dynamic situation at that airport and ensued kabul generally. the secretary think would have appreciated the opportunity to have had a conversation before the visit took place. just how disruptive was it having them there? they got a chance to talk to commanders, as i understand. they got a chance to talk to troops, but to say there wasn t a need to flex and to alter the day s flow including the need to ....
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 ....