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What was that? what was agreed or negotiated? so, a key part of that was that afghanistan and its territory should not be used against the us or any of its allies, that the security of the us or its allies should not be threatened from afghan territory and that is one of the things were expecting to be discussed, but the top of the us agenda right now is the evacuation of us nationals and others who are still stuck in afghanistan have permits to leave the country. in the past few weeks there hav...

Delays and difficulties in the evacuation process particularly by air via doha where i am and they will be hoping to smooth out that process and hold the taliban to its commitment to upholding people with the right documents to leave the country. they report also, a day after dozens of people were killed in a bombing in kunduz city in afghanistan which was claimed by islamic state khorasan province, and a growing state of islamic state militancy is also expected to be something discussed during ...

More attacks and possibly bloodshed. thats the thing i think resonates most with americans is they dont want to see the young people in our armed forces coming back in coffins. again, its easy to look in hindsight and say what should have been done and legitimate questions, of course, about the evacuation process, but the concern is if u.s. troops had stayed after that agreement was struck, the taliban could have attacked our men and women. >> not only the troops, but american citizens left in a...

>> what do you men servicemen? >> afghans who served with us. >> oh, afghan allies. special immigrant visas. >> worked in the united states military and they have family left behind in afghanistan. they cant get them out of afghanistan. they are certainly, jake, going to be in the bulls-eye. >> state department officials say its going to take weeks to get routine commercial flights back returning to kabul which would obviously help the evacuation process if there is one thats allowed to happen. ...

Process and going forward, right now, we are deeply engaged with them at nato and in other organizations on working together on the way forward to collectively hold the taliban to the commitments that its made to the international community. >> thank you. gentlemans time has expired. i now recognize representative of pennsylvania for five minutes. >> assuming its not classified, can you tell us where you are today? >> im at the state department. >> couldnt be bothered to come county here and see...

The beach, because you have to come from diego garcia quite disstant in the indian ocean, and these are long flights, and we need refueling to get them there, and it is going to require good intelligence, and the best command and control to really get the ordnance on target. >> dan, what can you tell us about the paused flights and the evacuees have been stopped temporarily because of a few cases of measles, and in that, the concern is that it is going to create a choke point in the evacuation p...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. were working on that every day. >> thank you. i yield back. >> thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classifi...

Climate crisis. but he is facing opposition to the multitrillion dollar price tag and with the taliban new hard line government announced, the biden administration remains under fire for leaving americans and afghan allies behind. the white house is asking for billions in funding to help afghan refugees and the evacuation process. on thursday president biden will give a speech outlining the next phase of his administrations plan to fight the pandemic. it comes as the countrys average daily cas...

Working to do everything in our power to support those flights and to get them off the ground. >> shannon: and even though we ground. -- >> rachel: even though we cant bring them home the biden administration bring home afghan refugees instead. detailing the state departments evacuation process. >> we were collectively able to evacuate 124,000 people from afghanistan, more than 34,000 people arrived here on their way to their next destination. >> rachel: so where is that next destination? for mo...

Respond on a lot of the stuff. they have been happily working with a lot of these different civilian organizations to try to get these people out. it is not yet a full-blown publicly known hostage situation, but now assets are not covert. except for the private organizations that they are working with. they are working very hard. theyve got a lot of people protected. people working throughout the entire evacuation process. you can go online and find operation dunkirk. help those efforts. they ne...