u. s. defense department press secretary john kirby said he could neither confirm nor deny that claim there appear to be images and reports from the ground that some of the afghan civilians killed may have been shot by the marine advocate at this point in time. since we're 48 hours, do you have any, any evidence that the marines or any of the us troops may have shot injure or we can, we can confirm that and certainly not a position to deny it either. we are investigating this and as we get more information that we can reliably communicate to you about this incident, we will. thursday suicide bombing in cobbled claimed the lives of 13 american troops. the 1st depths of us personnel, enough to stand in 18 month. it was also one of the highest daily death toll of us troops in a decade. the bodies of those soldiers were transferred back home on sunday to dover air force base among those paying their respects was the us president joe biden. however, when later created by the press about the crisis, he refused to answer, sparking outrage online. take any questions or go ahead and ask janice dan,

u. s. defense department press secretary joining coby said he could neither confirm nor deny the claim. there appear to be images and reports from the ground that some of the afghan civilians killed may have been shot by the marine advocate at this point in time. since we're 48 hours, do you have any, any evidence that the marines or any of the us troops may have shot injure or we can, we can confirm that and certainly not a position to deny it either. we are investigating this and as we get more information that we can reliably communicate to you about this incident, we will, the pentagon is warning, there's still a quote, real and active threat of another terror attack on cobbled airport. as the u. s. conclude that we withdraw from the gun test on. now, earlier on monday, a huge plume of black smoke billowed into the sky near the airport as us and the missile defenses intercepted rockets fired at the facility on the eve or the august . the 31st pull out deadline. now no casualties are reported in those miss all strikes and no group has claim responsibility. so it all comes just a day

u. s. defense department press secretary john kirby said he could neither confirm nor deny that claim there appear to be images and reports from the ground that some of the afghan civilians killed may have been shot by the marines advocate at this point in time. since we're 48 hours, do you have any evidence that the marines or any of the us troops may have shot injury that week? we can confirm that and certainly not a position to deny it either. we are investigating this and as we get more information that we can reliably communicate to you about this and that we will 5 now to david swanson, executive director of the world beyond war movement. thanks for being with us here on our international beer. so anthony, blinking, he praised evacuation effort, it was a massive effort while acknowledging many people are still stuck there. what did you make of his statement? well, i don't have much use for anything he says, and i find the entire coverage of being incredibly bizarre. you know, 2 weeks ago, most people in the united states didn't know there was a war. and we're getting wall to wall 247

about how that support would be given were not provided john kirby was pressed on this representing the u. s. department of defense from the pentagon. here's how he responded. does this mean the u. s. military withdrawl is not going to be complete by august 31st. again. what i said was, we're aiming to facilitate the reduction of the civilian personnel by august 31st. so it's all lining up on the same timeline. i won't speculate about what the footprints gonna look like post to august 31st because there's this additional mission set of, of helping process special immigrants. so we're just going to have to wait and see, but the drop down itself is still on track to be complete by august 31st. that makes no sense, john, i know i know what your troops and i know what you're saying, lucas. i'm saying of the of the original footprint plans that still continuing, but yes, we are adding additional troops for this specific and narrow focus and we're hoping to get them all out by the end of the month. i'm not going to speculate beyond august 31st. now it's important to note the united states has maintained a military prese