every major news outlet in the united states has called them stranded because they are here's jen saki denying it does the president have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving afghanistan it's the way that he has ordered it to happen by pulling the troops before getting these americans who are now stranded does he have a sense of that first of all i think it's irresponsible to say americans are stranded they are not we are committed to bringing americans who want to come home home we are in touch with them via phone via text via email via any way that we can possibly reach americans to get them home if they want to return home there are no americans stranded is the white house's official position on what's happening in afghanistan i'm just calling you out for saying that we are stranding americans in afghanistan when i set when we have been very clear that we are not leaving americans who want to return home okay no now she's shifting the conversation right he's saying they are currently stranded and she's like they're not stranded he's like is that your position it's like no i'm just i'm just saying that we're gonna go get them because it's like saying there were not men stranded on the beach at dunkirk okay they were and then people went and got them they're americans currently stranded in kabul the question is are you going to go out there and are you going to save them well one of the questions that needs to be answered before you even get to that is how many americans are there even in kabul well the good news is the american government has no damned idea in fact the american government is not even willing at this point to say how many americans they've gotten out they're giving you broad numbers as to how many people they've gotten out a huge majority of those are afghan nationals who worked with the united states which is fine but they are not willing to say how many americans are among that group why well there's only one reason for that in terms of public relations the only reason for that is because the number is kind of low here is uh here's major general hank taylor admitting he doesn't know how many americans have even left you'd mentioned that NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN have been evacuated since july uh is that NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN just on military airlift or does that include the commercial and chartered planes yeah so that that total number is uh u.s military plus u.s uh civilian state department some of that was state department uh contract there that went out also earlier you have any breakdown of the number of u.s citizens in that NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN that have gotten out um i do but i don't have that right now uh well they don't have that and then john kirby of the pentagon said the same thing he's asked how many americans have actually been evacuated well we don't know or we're not going to tell you what to do that's the most important number here in the number of americans so if it's just a matter
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