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Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul Calls on the Biden Administration to Resettle Afghans in New York Jose Nino Aug 21, 2021 New York Lieutenant Governor

Afghanistan, hes working to make sure any of afghan allies like interpreters or people just on the ground helping american troops are safely being evacuated as well so again, there are holes in the process absolutely but again, hes executing it in real time and we have to let the process play out. august 31 isnt here yet so until august 31 hit, we have to see, for the process and plan get smoother as we get closer to the final day? dan: one last question, do you agree with president bidens decis...

If he knows it or not, we dont know what hes knows these days but its verifiably untrue. his plan is to trust the kat event, how to supplant from the podium, trust the taliban to get american citizens into kabul airport through a couple of gates. i cant tell you how many people have reached out to me. guys i start with, afghans here in the state who the other afghans and afghan interpreters, still on the ground right now reaching out saint here are people to get to a gate let alone through a gat...

Hand here? >> jim, i think it started many years ago. folks like no one left behind and human rights first have been fighting to get our allies out for years. and i think as we saw it fall apart in afghanistan, more and more folks stepped up. and whats going through our minds? its not just a disaster on the ground in afghanistan. its a mental trauma disaster for veterans across the united states. people are getting text messages from their interpreters and the people they served with whom they d...

Afghanistan, hes working to make sure any of afghan allies like interpreters or people just on the ground helping american troops are safely being evacuated as well so again, there are holes in the process absolutely but again, hes executing it in real time and we have to let the process play out. august 31 isnt here yet so until august 31 hit, we have to see, for the process and plan get smoother as we get closer to the final day? dan: one last question, do you agree with president bidens decis...

Plan. there is not even a plan, let alone a serious plan to do something about it. rachel: still so fascinating to me, specifically with you know the interpreters that worked alongside our military. this has been months that people in the military, people like you have been saying please do something. everyone was seeing biden was intent on doing this deadline. why wasnt, why wasnt the bureaucracy released to like move this forward? we saw whether it is "operation warp speed," there is a way for...

Order to keep doing this job, you have to live with it and accept it and embrace it and thank god for it, but you cant let it get you down to the point where you cant keep doing the work. >> keep doing the work, right. clarissa, thank you for your courageous coverage, and i hope you can get some sleep. >> thank you, brian. >> thanks. now to another side of the story. the urgent effort to evacuate afghans who worked for western media outlets throughout the country. these are local reporters im ...

Afghanistan, hes working to make sure any of afghan allies like interpreters or people just on the ground helping american troops are safely being evacuated as well so again, there are holes in the process absolutely but again, hes executing it in real time and we have to let the process play out. august 31 isnt here yet so until august 31 hit, we have to see, for the process and plan get smoother as we get closer to the final day? dan: one last question, do you agree with president bidens decis...

Mess, how do we do better going forward? >> i appreciate that, alex, because as americans, why dont we come together. there will be plenty of time to figure out what went wrong. that means making sure we are there even if we have to extend our time to the august 31st deadline until all americans who want to leave can leave. we have an obligation to get all of the americans out. second, we need to expedite the processing of visas. i am in a district that has 25,000 afghan americans. weve been inu...

One specific incident relative to your office in a moment, but let me ask you about what you want to hear from the president at 4:00. do you think he ought to be prepared? will they be prepared to say this is going to go past august 31st? >> i do believe that the president is prepared to do that. the president has said that every american who wants to leave we will assist them to leave. what i want to hear is what are our plans for us to deal with the isis threat? jake sullivan accurately has sa...