Biden provides update on Afghanistan

President Joe Biden connected Sunday provided different update connected evacuation efforts successful Afghanistan arsenic the subject races to evacuate each Americans up of an Aug. 31 deadline.

"We person a agelong mode to spell [in Afghanistan], and a batch could inactive spell wrong," Biden said during his address.

Biden noted that evacuations person picked up, saying that the subject during 1 30-hour span implicit the play had flown 11,000 radical retired of the airdrome successful Kabul.

He besides confirmed the usage of civilian reserve flights — commercialized craft recruited to assistance successful subject missions. Biden said that specified flights would not interaction commercialized formation schedules successful the U.S., and that those planes would lone beryllium utilized to alert evacuees aft they had arrived successful third-party countries.

Biden was besides asked astir perchance extending the Aug. 31 deadline for evacuations. In response, the president said the enactment was inactive connected the table.

"There are discussions going on," Biden said. "The anticipation is that we volition not person to extend."

Biden's comments came hours aft his nationalist information adviser, Jake Sullivan, told CNN that 3,900 radical had been airlifted retired of Kabul connected U.S. subject flights implicit the past 24 hours. That represents an summation from 1,600 flown retired aboard U.S. subject planes successful the erstwhile 24 hours, but remains acold beneath the 5,000 to 9,000 that the subject says it has the capableness to airlift daily.

Sullivan besides said astir 3,900 radical were airlifted connected non-U.S. subject flights implicit the past 24 hours.

According to The Associated Press, the Biden medication has fixed nary steadfast estimation of the fig of Americans seeking to permission Afghanistan. Some person enactment the full betwixt 10,000 and 15.000. Sullivan connected Sunday enactment it astatine “several thousand.”