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Of the biden administration? have you been providing all the information you have about people who need to be evacuated to the biden administration to expedite that? >> sure. im part of a group of folks. i did speak to the national security adviser a little earlier today. >> jake sullivan. >> about 20 minutes. he was incredible. very gracious, listening and was able to hook us up with the folks we needed to to pass information and other teammates, joy and then rob and safia are busy working to m...

Cooperating with any of these organizations? can you talk about that? and then what is your message to these organizations? are they helping, hindering? given what you know about how this is unfolding, should they continue their operations? >> its certainly not for us to tell them to stop caring about individuals that they know that are in afghanistan, howard. we are -- as you might imagine, we are working off many different streams of information about various vulnerable afghan groups, not to m...

Airbnb on August 24 announced that it will provide temporary housing to 20,000 Afghan refugees worldwide.

Anyone else. just as we work to suppress the terrorism threat from al qaeda and isis in yemen, in syria, in somalia, in the islamic magreb and many other countries and let me just finish by saying, the president has been clear that from his perspective, american counterterrorism capabilities have evolved to the point where we can suppress that terrorism threat without keeping thousands or tens of thousands of troops on the ground in a country. we have proven that out in other countries, and that...

Them. at this point, we believe about 13,000 people remain at the kabul airport. that, too, a brand new update. well get some information on that. those 13,000 are waiting, hoping to be evacuated. 33 u.s. military transport jets are expected to arrive at the airport in the next 24 hours, each has the capacity, were told, to take 400 passengers out. a source tells cnn the united states, though, is changing its policy on who will be admitted into the airport from today on, only u.s. citizens green...

United states, working with partners to continue to suppress the threat. from al qaeda or isis or anyone else, just as we work to suppress the threats in yemen, syria, in the atlantic, many other countries. let me just finish by saying the president has been clear that from his perspective, they have evolved to the point where we can suppress that terrorism side without keeping thousands or tens of thousands of troops on the ground. we have proven that in other countries, and that is exactly wha...

And ernst issue a bipartisan letter calling on the administration to expand the special immigrant visa program even more which congress had actually already passed and implemented and the administration had not yet done and ask biden to again keep u.s. troops in the country for as long as it takes to get everyone out. >> you have great reporting the way this president has been laser-like focused on getting this passed through congress. does this all change the calculus? does this force the white...

Afghanistan from al qaeda, isis-k or anyone else, and just as we have worked to suppress it from yemen, somalia, and in the islamic mugrab and we have evolved to a point without keeping tens of thousands of troops on the ground. we have proven it out in other countries and this is what we intend to do in afghanistan, and the president has spoken about the terrorism threats in afghanistan on numerous occasions. >> is there a plan to evacuate more afghans who have worked with the united states. >>...

Source told me about as well. there are many reasons how people manage to get on the base. there was a moment the filtration system basically collapsed and humanitarian issues were allowed on people who didnt have the correct paperwork, seemed to have been allowed on the base. also, im told by the source, one key factor was the decision by the united states to issue some siv applicants, thats their special immigrant visa program, to issue this particular image, youll see it here, essentially a n...

Face of collin all red who said what would happen and kabul fell and it was pompeo who said im directing it. youre talking to the person and thats not going to happen. well brief you. it was pompeo that refused to include turning over al qaeda as liz cheney mentioned. it was pompeo and the trump administration that sand bagged the state department to help get some of these afghan allies out through that special immigrant visa program. theres an 18,000 person backlog because it was that administr...