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Support abortion when his own catholic faith believes its morally wrong? >> he believes its up to the woman. i know you in never faced that choice. lets move on. i think we have to move on. you had plenty of time today. >> how many green card holders and siv applicants remain in afghanistan? >> i wanted to give you an update on one piece asked yesterday. how many people have come into the country? this is something that the dhs will provide regular updates on. between august 17th and 31st,

Afghan passports and did they work for the u.s. and the process takes 18 to 24 months. now we do it in days and week to a large population. you know at the end of the day corners will be cut and individuals that are not getting the full screening and vetting procedure. we know that because dhs is paroleing these individuals in. that wont be necessary if we passed the test and gave visa. there should be a lot of concerns going on with bringing this many individuals into the u.s. in such a condens...

Fbi, because anybody who leaves in patriotism as being purged from the u.s. military, being purged from dhs and the other agencies, and people are being -- they are sitting in prison in solitary confinement in a correctional facility in washington, d.c., without trial. they are not being convicted of anything. and they have been there for a long time now, almost a year. and no one was saying a word. it so we live in a state of fear and america today. we dont live as a free people, a free nation....

Only means at this point and that is through the taliban controlled isis infested territory with iran to the west and pakistan to the east. so its made it more difficult. as for the concern, undersecretary newland speaking about a range of agencies from dhs, tsa, fbi all looking to make sure that elements from isis or other individuals wanting to do harm to the u.s. could slip through the cracks and exploit the system. neil? >> neil: all right. thank you for that, griff. should we be worried abo...

>> taxing the system. and other resources, and on top of that the fact they convert these thousands of it individuals, whether they are those we have a lot of information about our other vulnerable afghans we have very little information about. it is taxing the system and when you have this amount of individuals to screen invest in a matter of days there are corners that will be cut. the most concerning thing is these visa applications are not going to be finished in time, dhs is paroling them i...

Member of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america, kristen rouse, we feel your passion, frustration and your commitment as your service continues here. please keep us posted, thank you for being with us. julia lets get to the questions that kristen just raised for us. what is the plan from the state department, to get remaining americans because there are a couple hundred of them left in afghanistan and also some of these afghan partners out of the country? >> well, like kristen said, having th...

People escape from their predicaments. and then, if you look at the next phase of this will be to restore power. to make sure that we can get that done. today, we had great success in restoring communications. when we woke up this morning, a lot of cell phone carriers didnt have necessarily coverage for people. and now, that is improved remarkably. 9-1-1 was down when we talked to the mayor earlier of new orleans and we had our dhs on the ground helping. its now been restored. and then, well go ...

That done. today we had great success in restoring communications when we woke up this morning a lot of cell phone carriers didnt have necessarily coverage for people. and now that has improved remarkably. 911 was down when we talked to the mayor earlier of new orleans and we had our dhs on the ground helping. its now been restored. well go also into making sure we can provide emergency food, shelter, and water. we have to do a lot of things at once but one thing we do know is we have to work wi...

Military installations leaving these military installations and they dont pass the screening and vetting at the end of the day. todd: and the permit of the went security securing the homeland what are the ramifications of the homeland of these if they are not carried out well by dhs? >> it is extremely serious. when we look at afghanistan, the disastrous way we conducted this withdrawal my concern from homeland security perspective is we are allowing afghanistan to become a safe haven for terror...

Afghans flown to the U.S. have been later sent back to countries abroad after federal agencies "flagged" them for "security concerns.