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The Taliban seeks international legitimacy and support. Our message is any legitimacy and any support will have to be earned.

Let me speak directly to our engagement with the Taliban across these and other issues. We engage with the Taliban during the past few weeks to enable our evacuation operations.

We discussed how we will work together to facilitate safe travel out of Afghanistan including by re-opening Kabul civilian airport as soon as possible.

The military mission is over. A new diplomatic mission has begun.

I want to commend our outstanding diplomats who work around the clock in around the world to coordinate the operation.

Our commitment to them and to all Americans in Afghanistan and everywhere in the world continues.

We believe there are still a small number of Americans, under 200, and likely closer to 100, who remain in Afghanistan and want to leave.

The main point I want to drive home here today is that America’s work in Afghanistan continues.

We will continue our humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.

Any engagement with Taliban led government in Kabul will be driven by one thing only, our vital national interest.

The Taliban is committed to let anyone with proper documents leave the place in a safe and orderly manner.

We will hold the Taliban to its pledge to let people freely depart Afghanistan.

Helping Americans, our foreign partners who have been by our side for 20 years and Afghans at risk at this critical moment was more than just a high stakes assignment for our team. It was a sacred duty.

We will remain vigilant on monitoring to express ourselves and we will maintain robust counterterrorism capabilities in the region to neutralized those threats if necessary.

... the United States and our allies began our evacuation and relocation operation in Kabul.

We`re operating in a hostile environment in a city and country now controlled by the Taliban with the very real possibility of an ISIS k attack.

I`m for fairness. And if the maps are drawn in a fair way, Democrats and progressives will do just fine.

Well, I`m not given up on the For the People Act yet. I mean, it can be passed and can be passed relatively quickly, relatively soon.