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Have access to basic medicine or access to enough to eat. >> such an important point. arrwa damon joining us live fro istanbul. many thanks. secretary of state antony blinken is calling the evacuations from kabul an extra ordinary effort. during a virtual hearing, he said they got almost all the u.s. citizens and afghans who wanted to leave out. tens of thousands of afghans who fled the country are now in the united states. cnns oren liebermann has the det details. >> reporter: ever since the ...

With the extreme vetting process that we were briefed on today, the multilayer, biometric, all the background checks. >> reporter: and the discovery of the disease prompted military to pause the flights of afghan advantage xis from europe to the united states for at least seven days. >> we want the people who work on these bases and the families who live there to know how seriously were taking it. >> reporter: one homeland security official said this is likely one of the most important missions ...

Mr. secretary you covered some of this in your opening remarks but i wanted to ask you a series of questions to level set for the committee. the situation you inherited. what was inside your control an outof your control and to look at the events of the last 30 to 40 days with that same lens, what was in your control and what was outside of your control. i think these are yes or no answers. some of it you have covered in your testimony but it is important to get it on the record. mr. secretary, ...

Media access to see the facilities. here there is housing for more than 10,000 afghans. they will get covid vaccines, medical screening and the beginning of a new life. in new jersey, the afghans have broken up their village into councils, leaders meet with base officials, an afghan society within a u.s. military facility. already two babies were born on different bases, some of the first new americans from the afghan evacuation. some afghans who were far along in their visa application left the...

Under the trump administration, and they are continuing now today. and they are continuing now toda . �* , ., today. and in terms of the wider international - today. and in terms of the - wider international community, but neighbours as well for north korea, how concerned should these countries be? well, so, you know, this new missile thats being tested is not a game changer. north korea has had the ability to hold at risk targets in south korea, japan, us bases in the pacific and the us homel...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...

I think whats happening is that the north koreans now have enough nuclear weapons to put on a large missiles that can strike the united states and that they are now beginning to experiment with shorter range weapons. the north koreans have been building nuclear weapons for a while now and maybe they have enough intercontinental missiles available as of this is why they are now developing more local missiles and they are increasingly making use of them in the region or they would if there was a c...

Difficult when you have to sequester them and work through whether they are healthy. it is going to be a challenge, and you are also running into the time lines where the agreement is supposed to be ten days overseas, and to keep the evacuees overseas now. >> and admiral stavridis from the diplomatic perspective as we wait for this hearing to start, how does that happen with the knock-on effect with the flights paused and evacuees staying there for a period of time and dan said about ten days, a...

Bases, and it is going to show a number of different ways, and it is going to show that it is working given the challenges ahead. >> and dan, you reported that the cia rescues in kabul, and they rely on the taliban forces, and how did that work? because it is our understanding that the forces stood down for the most part >> yes, a couple of things have emerged, that we have seen the cream of the crop of the afghan forces didnt lay down their arms or at least transition into some other role. so i...