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About a threat from isis to the kabul airport. >> well, im deeply concerned about any threats to american citizen has are trying to get to the airport so that we can ee eevacuate and get them home safely as well as afghan partners that put their lives on the line over the last 20 years. in afghanistan, these interpreters who helped u.s. troops, in terms of providing intelligence and other interpreting services and other support that ultimately, no doubt, kept our soldiers safe and really saved i...

Thats how i feel. i appreciate you coming on. frankly, i was most dispritted at her grammar. its hard to believe she is a teacher. i appreciate you guys coming on and sharing your story. i think a lot of peoples eyes are open. congratulations on your sons courtroom. >> thank you. rachel: american veterans serve with afghan interpreters now plead for help to get them out of harms way. the push to bring them home as interpreters feel left behind. >> i wish i didnt work with the united states. i wo...

Betrayed. will: congressman, can i ask you a question? this is driven out of my own personal curiosity. i know you have been at the frontlines of this issue. you brought it up afghan allies and the refugee situation. i know you advocated very thoroughly to get some of these people out behind enemy lines essentially. the numbers are staggering to me. will: every time i hear these numbers, i dont know. sometimes 30,000, 50, 60,000 people. i know we owe people out of a duty of honor to help them, b...

By. its important to note the commercial airlines wont be flying in and out of kabul, be flying from secure locations in europe and the middle east and back to the united states. no decisions have been made on whether theyll actually be used. since the taliban regained grounds in afghanistan, theres been growing concern for all afghan nis stance, even more so for those perceived as defiant. the top of the list are the afghan interpreters who spent the last two decades. many military veterans for...

Explicitly because they worked with the u.s. military or the u.s. embassy. the taliban are going door to door looking for american-affiliated afghans. they are shouting the names of interpreters and translators who worked with our soldiers. theyre shouting their names in villages because they know that they have an opportunity to now take retribution against them. this is not theoretical. weve had interpreters and drivers, a few weeks ago i wrote an op ed about a person stopped at a taliban chec...

And one thing for our attempt to evacuate all the americans and afghans to help the military and the interpreters, but we cant evacuate every woman and every girl, so we are as a multinational community going to have to figure out how do we help them. its quite scary, as youve seen the taliban is already raping and attacking some of the women there. they are living in absolute fear. theyre hiding at the school, which has come back to there, the womens school is now going back to being virtual. i...

Foremost and then bring about the fight and afghan people. what does it say about a president, about a country willing to leave their citizens behind? this is worst foreign policy might you sit back and ask yourself, how did we get so much along so quickly and then you watch public statements given, he watched leaders speaking to american people hundred themselves in real time and he realized how they got so much its around basic things, you know how to be a military mastermind to ask things lik...

Same support as basima and his family. we need to do whatever we can to get these men and women who served alongside us out. >> we had representative brian on the last hour and he talked about never leaving a man behind and he feels that applies to those interpreters just like bashimar. what do you think the white house needs to do about it? >> at the end of the day, i think they need to understand the situation. its very different for me to deal with what im hearing through live texts and video...

Plans how to safely evacuate afghan interpreters, now our allies art risk as the taliban is going door-to-door looking for those who risked it all to work with the united states. afghanistan war veteran cofounder of no american left behind, what can you tell us, what is the latest that is happening right now? >> pandemonium at the gates, thousands of people tried to get one airport with one functioning runway. pretty much a nightmare. the only thing worse than this is the trump scenario which wo...

We just want right now to get everybody that we care about and have moral obligations to out of afghanistan safely and then we have a lot of questions that need answered. >> certainly, we all want to see everyone evacuated from afghanistan, the afghans that have been helping us, the americans, the interpreters, the women, all of them. but at the same time, there is criticism coming from both sides of the aisle about the way this has been handled and i want to read something from one of your g.o....