impossible the reconcile. somebody is lying about why the d.o.d. didn t get the national guard to capitol hill sooner. that s just based on all the paperwork all the document that i have looked at, all the people who i have spoken to. it s going to be a challenge for the select committee to sort through just this controversy within the d.o.d. about why that building wasn t secured on an earlier time line. it is going to be a challenge. but the fact that kash patel is cooperating is significant because of course he was a very senior d.o.d. official that day and there is no question that he would know a lot at least according to this letter from the select committee about why things played out the way that they did. matt miller, just looking a of the the dates when some of these people landed at they very important agencies, kash patel goes over there on november 10th. i wonder how much premeditation is part of what s under investigation by the 1/6 committee. it must be. it was alw
afghanistan. there is a huge difference between 6,015,000. what happened to these other americans. the situation with the special immigrant visa is even more disturbing. not counting the sivs that arrived before kabul s fall, you evacuated 705 of roughly 20,000 principle siv applicants. what happened to these people? this committee reached out to the department in april, may and june to help expedite siv processing. we asked that additional what additional authorities or resources you needed for months we received contradictory responses or no response at all. i ll take a minute to defend the state department. one of the problem was providing the records needed to validate the afghans who bravely helped our forces. the fact that d.o.d. didn t keep accurate records is irresponsible and a slap in the face to those who fought
committee in july that there were 10,000 to 15,000 americans in afghanistan. there is a huge difference between 6,000 and 15,000. what happened to these other americans? the situation with the special immigration visa evacuations is more disturbing. not counting the sivs that arrived before kabul s fall you evacuated 705 of roughly 20,000 principal siv applicants. what happened to these people? we tried to help the processing. we asked what additional authorities or resource efs you needed. for months we received contradict try responses or no responses at all. one of the biggest problems to help process sivs was the enormous failure of the department of defense to provide the names needed. the fact the d.o.d. didn t keep
is actually happening? because it happened yesterday at the inner agency fire center. it was widely reported that the media reported on it and it is not the first time it happened. it is happened several times. are you telling the committee this has not happened and no one pushes the button and cuts him off in mid sentence. that is correct. so this didn t happen yesterday nor on the other occasions where the media showed the american people that his sentence was cut off in mid sentence. are you saying that didn t happen? senator, i really don t know what you re referring to. all i could tell you is having worked with the president for now 20 years, both here on this committee and in over the last nine months at the white house, the president very much speaks
afghanistan. there s a huge difference between 6,000 and 15,000. what happened to these other americans? the situation with the special immigrant visa evacuations is more disturbing. not counting the sivs that arrived before kabul s fall, you evacuated 750 of roughly 20,000 principle siv applicants. what happened to these people? this committee reached out in april, may, and june to help with processing. we asked what additional resources you needed. for months, we received contradictory responses or no responses. i ll take a minute to defend the state department. one of the biggest problems to help process these is the enormous failure the department of defense to provide the records needed to validate the afghans to helped our forces. the fact that dod didn t keep accurate records is irresponsible and a slap in the