#shorts On 4/6/2023, a reporter asked NSC Spox John Kirby, “But is there anything in the review that addresses the problem of who was in charge at that time? I think there was a lot of analysis that questions whether it should have been the military who’s in charge of the evacuation versus the State Department, and that is partly the problem of the confusion.

And I understand your point about planes leaving full of people, but there were also —

MR. KIRBY: I actually don’t —

Reporter: — planes who left empty —

MR. KIRBY: I —

Reporter: — and people falling off planes.

MR. KIRBY: I don’t — I actually don’t accept the premise of your question that there was some sort of confusion over who runs it. It was a noncombatant evacuation operation, once it was called, and the military leads those …

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/azQAK7GSYGA
who was in charge at that time? A: no confusion over who runs it