Does the Biden administration know how many Americans, including legal residents, need

to be rescued?

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Welcome to the lead everyone, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with our world lead.

The clock is ticking in Afghanistan as the evacuation effort enters its final week today.

A source told me that the State Department briefed congressional staffers saying that

4,100 Americans are still actively trying to get out of Afghanistan, but hours later

after we and others reported that number, the State Department took it back and claimed

that the briefer, Misspoke Secretary of State Antony Blinken then said it's actually

only 500 Americans who definitively need rescuing, and then there are an additional 1,000

who may or may not need rescuing, and he said that number remains fluid.

When Antony Blinken acknowledged that he is only talking about U.S. citizens, not including

green card holders, legal permanent residents of the United States, so the real number,

if you include legal permanent residents, well that remains a mystery.

So far, no American troops and no American citizens have been killed since this all began,

according to the Pentagon, which is good news, though an unknown number of Afghans have

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