military saying that is the only option given the dynamics on the ground? maybe both, and i won t get into the semantic debate, but it is worth repeating as often as i can, and we don t trust the taliban, and there is a reality on the ground. the taliban control large swathes of afghanistan including the area surrounding the perimeter of the airport, and so by necessity, that is the cooperation to get the americans out, and our afghan partners out, and individuals who are eligible for the range of programs the united states has out, and we have evacuated over 105,000 people out, and as a large part of coordinated efforts to get people out, but as the department of defense noted today, clearly something went wrong here in the process that we saw the isis-k attack occur yesterday. we don t have additional information to suggest that it
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