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White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted Wednesday that 'on one' believes the Taliban are a 'respected members of the global community' while also explaining why the administration was blocking some evacuation flights from landing on U.S. military bases. 

Psaki got in a back-and-forth during the press briefing with Fox News' Peter Doocy who had asked about charter flights carrying Americans trying to leave Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan. 

'We're not going to allow flights that have hundreds of people who we don’t know who they are, who haven’t been through security protocols, where we haven’t seen the manifests, to land on U.S. military bases,' Psaki said. 

She confirmed reporting from Politico that said the Taliban had stopped flights from taking off to see paperwork from passengers and flight manifests because the State Department had indicated they wanted that vetting done. 

'So a number of these planes, they

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