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They can. and making a difference in peoples lives. obviously it would be far worse if all the, you know, commitments that had been madmade, the people who hadnt been working for years were there. its easy to look at haiti and say why does this keep happening? and really theres a lot of, you know, a lot of people who played a role in it and a lot of systems that play a role in it. its tragic. nevertheless, you have hundreds of thousands of people in need right now, and its a desperate situation....

Done it differently it wouldnt have been that hard. create multiple zones that the taliban would have to focus on to get our people out. thats so basic it is hard to believe it didnt get done. >> it is intuitive. harris. and the president was actually advised by military leaders. i have friends in the pentagon. my classmates from west point telling me that we told him this was going to happen and he insisted on closing the other air bases. >> harris: wow. i want to get to this quickly. jen psaki...

Was also asked about it. >> do those discussions with the taliban include talk about allowing americans or afghans through some of these taliban check points or even potentially expanding the perimeter around the airplane so more people can get their safely? thats one of the things were hearing people cant get through these taliban check points and get to the airport to leave am. >> again, without going through the details of these communications of which im not a part, as i said there are inter...

Americans, afghan allies, women and children to make sure that they have safe passage on to, you know, into some place, some country where they will be safe and secure. >> what is our obligation to those folks for this country? how, you know, how many of them should be provided safe passage to the united states. >> well, i agree with peter. we work together. we just had on and we have to, one, make sure that we honor our commitments. keep our word. and i believe we must lift the refugee camp. we...

You call the excuse of this with dr drawl an absolute disaster. how precarious is this because it feel the like it could go sideways at any moment. >> its a very bad situation right now. were not going to reestablish ourself in afghanistan. we have a large commitment to a variety of afghans, interpreters. we also need to focus on the fact there are a lot of embassy people and people that worked for usa id for contractors. they also need to be gotten out. you were talking earlier in the program a...

And they want to be recognised internationally and be acknowledged, and treated as a response will government — they need to fulfil the promises entry people with and respect, and not cause such violence and suffering. respect, and not cause such violence and suffering-— and suffering. when you talk about commitments, _ and suffering. when you talk about commitments, id _ and suffering. when you talk about commitments, id like _ and suffering. when you talk about commitments, id like to _ an...

You know, were not going to reestablish ourselves in afghanistan. we have a very large commitment to a variety of afghans, interpreters. i think we, also, need to focus on the fact that there are a lot of embassy people, there are a lot of people who worked for usaid, for -- contractors for aid, they also need to be gotten out. you were talking, earlier in the program, about the limited capacity of kabul airport. >> uh-huh. >> so, its pretty clear that, to meet the commitments that president bid...

And provide some funding for countries like barbados. " is the money coming? not the way that it should. finance is going to be big problem. again, there were many commitments made, and we have not seen those commitments. i think at cop 26 theres going to be — and i want to begin again by thanking the honourable alok sharma, because he is working very steadfastly. thats the british official, politician in charge of cop 26. yeah. who will the president going forward. we hope, for example, he is...

They touched an american, even so much as scared and american. 411 plus months, february 2020, there was not a single american killed after we got the deal with the taliban because the taliban knew that the deal meant one thing, they had a set of obligations that if they fail to live up to them, they would be enormous costs posed on them. they broke some of them, the power-sharing commitments, their commitments with respect to how they would respond to certain actions, and when they did, we impo...

Better at slick delivery. at one of the most impressive things, i must mention that several of the women who finally were elected to parliament in afghanistan stayed and say things like we are going to be with our people while so many of the men, including the presidents both said. it isjust a disgrace men, including the presidents both said. it is just a disgrace that these men ran away, leaving these women who are so committed to their vocation, if you like. again, it shows their bravery and c...