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Interpreters get to safety. the frightened afghans arent sure what to do. its heartbreaking. were all seeing. we see it, we feel it. you cant look at it and not feel it. nothing about this effort is easy. but the women and men of the united states armed forces are acting bravely and with professionalism and with a basic human compassion. i want to offer my profound thanks to our service members on the ground in ca july to all those at u.s. bases around the world who are welcoming and caring for ...

A history of fighting each other. every day we have troops on the ground, these troops faced the risk of attack from isis k from a distance, even though we were moving back the perimeter significantly. we are working as hard and as fast as we can to get people out, thats our mission. thats our goal. and our determination to get every citizen home and our afghan citizens is unwavering. we continue to only see... we see the individual lives affected, the families that are desperate to get home to ...

'Shame, dishonor and embarrassment'

Tens of thousands of Afghanistan nationals who worked with the U.S. military are in danger of being killed now that the country has fallen to the Taliban.

Tens of thousands of people in Afghanistan waited nervously on Saturday to see whether the United States would deliver on President Joe Biden’s new pledge to evacuate all Americans and all Afghans who aided the war effort, as U.S. helicopters plucked people from locations beyond the teeming, chaotic Kabul airport and its Taliban checkpoints.

These number include american citizens and permanent residents as well as their families. it includes siv applicants and their families, these afghans that worked alongside us, served alongside of us, gone into combat us and provided invubl assistance such as translators and interpreters. the united states stands by its commitment we made to these people. >> that was president joe biden speaking to the american people earlier today about the situation in afghanistan and the united states militar...

22nd of july, house of representatives voted on whether or not to expedite the processing of special immigrant visas for our afghan allies, for afghan interpreters, contractors and security personnel who worked with u.s. forces in afghanistan. he says this week, every effort should have been made to evacuate our allies. literally three weeks, three weeks before that he got the opportunity to vote to make more of an effort to evacuate our allies and he voted no on that. he voted no on doing more ...

About -- you wont even remember because you were doing it for so many of us but the idea of what the taliban is. the taliban is not a bunch of people from afghanistan. youre hearing all the talks from the interpreters about them speaking erdu or pashtu. who is the taliban and what are they worried about? >> they began in 1994 when the pakistani intelligence service wanted to get a group that could defeat all the warlords because in 1994 there were like six warlords in afghanistan all fighting ea...

Try to match it up with publicly available reporting and documents. obviously, youve been cooperated in your account by elizabeth newman today, who is at the homeland security department in a position to know. let me just ask if i got anything wrong? or from misunderstanding any of this? >> no. thats exactly it. its been incredibly frustrating for me to watch some of these narratives being pushed now that if trump were in office, he wouldve rescued all of the translators and all of these interpr...