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0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. were working to evacuate remaining staff and weve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they h...

0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. were actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say...

Still evaluating their decision to leave based on the situation on the ground that evolves daily, in fact, evolves hourly. some are understandably very scared. each has a set of personal priorities and considerations, but they alone can weigh. they may change their mind from one day to the next as this happens and it will likely continue to happen. finally, over the past step days weve been moving hundreds of american citizens out of afghanistan every day. in most cases guided to the airport by ...

Willing to take responsibility for yourselves? >> thanks, matt. let me say two things. with regards to numbers in these different categories, as youve seen by as how i get to a number of americans, this is both incredibly complicated and incredibly fluid. any number i give you right now is likely to be out of date by the time we leave this briefing room so what were doing is very carefully tabulating everything that we have and cross-checking it and using different databases. well have numbers f...

Readily identified by all sorts of people that you guys are willing to take responsibility for yourselves? >> thanks. let my say two things. first, with regards to the numbers, as youve seen by how i laid out how we get to the numbers of americans, this is both incredibly complicated and incredibly fluid. any number i give you right now is likely to be out of date by the time we leave the briefing room. so what were doing is very carefully tabulating everything we have, cross checking it, using ...

Guided to the airport by us, in some cases getting their... checklists against flight manifests, against arrival records, against other databases. theres usually a lack of about 24 hours to be able to verify their status. so when you take into account all of these inputs that we used to arrive at our assessment of the number of americans to live afghanistan and want to leave, you start to understand why this is a hard number to pin down at any given moment and why we are constantly refining it. ...

0 these are known passport holders. >> okay. but have -- have lprs also been contacted? >> yes. >> and what about siv applicants, people who are -- were in contact -- >> will we get -- >> im sorry. >> i dont expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began theres been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and theres been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you ...

Records to fingerprints, the group has access to more personal information on its enemies. in addition to the u.s. made armaments they got their hands on, new concerns tonight that the taliban have seized another more subtle weapon that could help them track down and kill their enemies. digital databases left behind on computers and hard drives, records stored away that could be a treasure trove for the terror group. >> that includes things like tax records, who is on whose payroll. who talked t...

Months. there are a number of other voices in the republican party that are already, whether on television or on tweets or whatever, starting to talk about, starting to demonize afghan immigrants, starting to talk about this is bidens plan to put more muslims in the country, starting to insinuate that these are bad people, theyre terrorists, et cetera, et cetera, really rank bigotry. whats your reaction when you see it? because it is -- i wouldnt say its the prevalent voice in the republican par...

National data base but sometimes there are hiccups. >> not all those databases talk to each other so these are to be done sometimes independently of each other these databases can be siloed. >> even noe though afghans new lives in the united states connections back home may haunt them and their new country. >> anyone who comes over here who has family back in afghanistan is subject to be extorted by the taliban. >> a large chunk of afghans coming to the united states hold whats called a special ...