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>> so if the taliban had begun the siege on attacks and resumed attacks on troops, would 2500 have been enough to have stopped the -- >> no? >> i think it was the assessment of our military leaders that not to put a number on it but significant additional u.s. forces would have been required both to protect ourselves and to prevent the onslaught from the taliban against the capitals and kabul. >> was it decision between leaving and the status. this was between a significant commitment of new u.s...

With me how do we ensure safe passage across land, borders, whether into tajikstan or pakistan with safe and regular flights out of afghanistan, whether from sharif or kabul and how do we get documents into the hands those that dont have identity documents because tler were destroyed in our embassy or they destroyed them themselves out of fear of the taliban and how do we make sure that were providing the financial support needed for the whole group of refugees who after thorough vetting ultimat...

>> so the siv numbers, that were tabulating right now because were trying to account for every one who has come in. some people remain in transit countries. other people are now in the united states. were putting all of those numbers together to determine -- the overwhelming majority of afghans who have come out of afghanistan thanks to our evacuation efforts are in one way or another afghans at risk. some will be siv applicants and others will be p-1 or p-2 or afghans at risk. were breaking dow...

Have are properly documented with a visa. including specific those who worked in some capacity for the united states. and not only do we have that understanding in public statements by the taliban, of course it is built into everything weve done with a large coalition of countries in terms of seventying an expectation and making very clear that the failure to fulfill that expectation will have significant consequences which we could get into. second, very important to make sure that there are wa...

Without the afghan military or a functioning government, would that have been enough to retake kabul to be able to secure the passage to everybody at the airport? >> i dont want to profresz to be a military expert. i can i say think safely it would have taken a substantial number of forces to try to retake the city or establish a much broader perimeter, and, of course, if that was ultimately opposed by the taliban, in a sense, it would have defeated the purpose. anyone outside that perimeter wou...

East, and kabul faced the prospect of no fuel and unable to mount any viable opposition and sustained defense. what do we think was going to happen. and the most concerning part of it if we didnt have an analysis that looked at all of this, this wasnt a failure of analysis or this was a failure of policy and planning. we have the wrong people analyzing this. someone didnt see this or didnt want to see this because weve established this that we want the to be out by september 11th so we could hav...

To the state department, to the employees in kabul and qatar and the d.c. based task force that is worked with the evacuation repatriation of americans and afghans and to the many delawareans and americans who ive heard from, former military, folks who served in afghanistan, former diplomats and development professionals eager to help and i look forward to continuing to coordinate with you and with agencies of our government, at volk asy groups and other partners on resettlement efforts. im glad...

Actually getting them into -- we were seeing afghan outposts and they went from surrounding the small provisional capitals to surrounding major cities. this is weeks before and at same time as i believe on july 8th president biden was still giving this naive optimistic prediction about the fighting capabilities of the afghan forces and so forth. we could see them meticulously focused on the north. they were splintering the sclerotic remain of any resistance. you could see the taliban was oshts v...

Country to include american citizens, green card holders, afghans who are properly documented with a visa, including specifically those who worked in some capacity for the united states. and not only do we have that understanding in public statements by the taliban, of course, it is built into everything weve done with a large coalition of countries in terms of setting an expectation and making very clear that failure to fulfill that expectation will have significant consequences which we can ge...

United states? i want to start with my thanks to the state department, to the employees in kabul and qatar, and to the many delawarens and americans who i have heard from, former military, folks who served in afghanistan, former diplomats and development professionals eager to help. i look forward to continuing to coordinate with you and agencies of our government, advocacy groups and other partners on resettlement efforts, and i am glad the former governor of delaware stepped up, and i am happy...