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If you were on this committee today, what would you ask the secretary? >> i would ask exactly that. how many americans and afghans are you actually tracking? i know that our private organizations are tracking orders of magnitude more people than the government is admitting to. at least 1,000 other americans that we know of are still inside afghanistan. were tracking tens of thousands of sivs left behind. our fear is that we actually left upwards of 90% of the interpreters and their families behi...

Few weeks ago, thousands of terrorists, the worst of the worst were all released from prisons as the taliban overran the country. the situation we find ourselves in is far worse in my judgment is a former chairman of homeland security committee, far worse than pre9/11. to make matters worse, we abandoned americans behind enemy lines. we left behind the interpreters who you, mr. secretary, and the president both promised to protect. i can summarize this in one word. betrayal. the america i know k...

Rosy dream that they were somehow going to negotiate a last-minute deal with the taliban was absolutely fantasy world. you know, like a yale faculty lounge rather than a war on the ground. i want to know why he left american citizens behind. i want to know why our interpreters who put their lives on the lines and fought with our special forces why were they left behind? rachel: i think some people want to know why tony blinken was in the hamptons when kabul fell. steve: calculation. rachel: they...

Our special forces, they are gone. the taliban will not allow them to leave. >> even people with the special immigrant visas. >> these are the guys that worked right with our special forces. taliban views them as the worst of the worst because they betrayed, in their view their country. >> how many people are you talking about? >> about 10,000. and if you multiply it by family, thats about three times that. >> so you think theyre going to be stuck? theyre never going to get out. >> theyre alread...

Successfully evacuating americans doing the jobs that our u.s. government should have done said that the state department was actually hindering and blocking their efforts in a very deliberate way. so, yeah, very shameful. i am concerned about this vetting process that you are talking about. and what kind of answers do you think you will get? because i have been hearing things about child brides again confusion over why some very clear allies and interpreters were not evacuated, but other people...

Terrorists, the worst of the worst all released from prison as the taliban overran the country. the situation that we find ourselves in is far worse in my judgment, far worse than pre9/11. to make matters worse, we abandoned mile an hours behind the enemy lines and left behind the interpreters who you, mr. secretary, you and the president both promised to protect. i can summarize this in one word, betrayal. the america i know keeps its promises and the most important promise in the military is n...

To allow humanitarian assistance to get the people who so desperately needed. that will be the basis upon which we engage in any taliban led government whether its the interim government whether its the interim government or one named in the days and weeks ahead. i government or one named in the days and weeks ahead.— and weeks ahead. i now yield for questions- _ and weeks ahead. i now yield for questions- mr — and weeks ahead. i now yield for questions. mr secretary, - and weeks ahead. i no...

You have 13 servicemen and women coming home in flag draped coffins, caskets. we had the celebration of 9/11. in kabul the taliban celebrating their defeat of the united states of america and the taliban flag going up on the presidential palace. i dont think anybody wanted to see it end this way. i think that, you know, it is how this was done that was a major criticism, and i would say it was bipartisan in many respects of critical the way this was done given the intelligence community warnings...

Airplanes. we have intel that says there could be some bad actors in this crowd. its tragic. it puts america at risk and its all antony blinkens fault. judge jeanine: while we leave americans behind. we bring in people we dont have biometrics on. they dont speak english which tells you they are not interpreters. the interpreters we are leaving over there and the journalists. this is crazy. you are in congress. give me aned a verb. give me -- give me an adverb. >> we dont even know who were evacu...

To stand with those who stood with us. i have a friend who was in and out of afghanistan a lot. he had a number of interpreters. he was attempting to get one of his interpreters out, not in kabul, but he didnt get him out because the taliban took him into custody, brought all of his family together, brought together witnesses and then killed him in front of his family before killing every member of his family except the 10-year-old daughter who was given to a taliban warrior as an arranged bride...