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Officials, since a catastrophic attack could occur with little or no notice. today there are nearly 80 state department nominees pending before the senate. nearly two dozen have already been voted out of this committee on a strong bipartisan basis. and simply await a vote in the senate. for our national security, i respectfully urge the senate and this committee to move as skbiftly as possible to consider and confirm all pending nominees and address the significant disruption in our national sec...

Were in constant contact with american citizens still in afghanistan who have told us that they wish to leave. each has been assigned a case management team to offer specific guidance and instruction. some decliened to be on the firt flights for medical issues that precluded traveling last week. well continue to help them and well continue to help any american who still wants to leave and aftghans to whom we have a special commitment just as weve done in other countries where weve evacuated our ...

Time of great fear, a time of concern for many aftghans and most will not fall within the categories that we have been talking about. american citizens, green card holders, sivs, p1s, p2s. the rise of the taliban will be of great concern to many afghans. our commitment to help those in need and that includes american citizens who for whatever reason decide to stay behind, to sivs not in a position to evacuate before august 31st. to others who fall within the

To coordinate with our partners in the government to get folks on the evacuation list and into the airport and while we have been successful in some cases but there are so many cases where they are turned away and we know the history wont judge us for how many people we get out of kabul but how many are left behind. >> the president said yesterday that getting everybody out cant be guaranteed. obviously many of the people you talk about are not necessarily people who -- i dont know. are all the ...

Getting out of that embassy just late last week. now, the state department says that those folks are not going to have a problem getting out of the country when they go to do so. theyre not going to be prohibited from flying out. but youve got to imagine that its pretty challenging for those aftghans who are worried right now. not only are they scared about getting to the airport, they dont have their passports in hand and its really unclear when folks are going to the airport where they go. if ...

Confidence. afghan-political leaders, who fled the country. the afghan military. >> i know there are concerns about why we did not begin evacuating afghans civilians sooner. part of the answer is some of the aftghans did not want to leave earlier. still, hopeful for their country. and part of it because the afghan government and its supporters discouraged us from organizing a mass exodus to avoid triggering, as they said, a crisis of confidence. >> okay. so, lets say all that is true. even if --...

Are gone. they are trying to restore order. 6,000 u.s. troops earmarked, flooding into the airport, taking control of the perimeter of the airport and trying to clear people away and and maintain that security. they do have several days to go yet to get all the americans out, to get any aftghans they cn out. and it should be said, theyre trying to assist other allied countries in get ting their people out. its a very complex operation right now. being monitored around the clock. and, obviously, ...

A new relationship. >> that being said, the security concerns include yes, the taliban launching 100 plus attacks every day against afghan forces. the aftghans who helped the united states as interpreters and other ways are being targeted for murder. the u.s. intelligence assessment is at the afghan government could fall to the taliban in six to 12 months. on top of that, were hearing theyre making contingency plans for evacuating u.s. personnel. these are real concerns that dont just relate to ...

Democracies in our image, not changing the aftghans way of life. joining us, is jim sciutto and general hurtling. what jumps out to you as someone who spent a lot of time in the military? what did you make of what you heard? >> there were parts of it i wholeheartedly agree with, anderson. the primary factor when he said we were shifting from time based to conditions based. thats something that i think most of my colleagues, most military professionals would say we should have done in the past. i...

It doesnt allow killing in any way, even if it is westerners. we had our own producer attend one of these friday prayers. another local producer went to another mosque where he had friday parayers and what the imm said was the afghans had no right to protest and kill because many aftghans and muslis havent fully accepted the koran because if they had, they would know this is wrong. >> please stay safe. we really appreciate it. newt gingrich hitting the campaign. im sorry, hitting the president...