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>> they are people who stood alongside of us, interpreters, transl translators, contractors, people who worked on the bases. there are some american citizens, journalists still there. this is a complete debacle. we supported getting out but not like this. it didnt have to go like this. and you will hear the messaging out of the white house, it is starting to sound like the bush administration of 2003, like the response after katrina. they dont understand that our inboxes are overflowing with fri...

Relocate them. >> ill tell you what. i mean, look. we have news today that there was a state department assessment sent to secretary of state blinken back in july that they believed this was going to go ugly early. so the timing on when they knew that the taliban -- well, look. we both know that the taliban have been making these encroachments for like 18, 24 months now. so its not like they just came out of nowhere. but i take your point about this extreme period of movement. heres my concern. ...

This is bbc news. im jane hill. the headlines at five. the taliban continues to tighten its grip on afghanistan — the secretary general of nato says hes deeply concerned about reports of human rights abuses by their fighters. they must put an end to violence around the country and uphold the human rights of all afghan citizens, men, women and children. about evacuating interpreters from the country was never made. an inquestjury has concluded that an attack in south london, by a convicted terr...

He helped my family, but mr. joe biden isnt. he broke his promise. he left my family and other afghan americans behind. the afghan americans over there, they have very hard times, and the families, they are crying. i received a hundred, hundred messages, and my hands are shaking, it become too weak, i couldnt sleep and eat because i am worried about my family and other afghan american allies in afghanistan, kabul airport. >> sean: congressman, let me ask you, biden apparently is going to address...

But were not delivering on it because we werent ready for the taliban takeover that we are now forced to deal with. so he is doing the right thing. im sure hes got his diplomatic counterparts with him and well see what happens. >> heres what i dont understand. and i -- im not sure if its known at all. but the -- we -- weve heard as many as 60,000, which is the people who directly worked for the u.s. but also their -- their family members. um -- is it people who have already been -- you know, obv...

But for american soldiers that share personal bonds as interpreters or on bases, people they knew and worked with, it is particularly painful. nbc correspondent julia ainsley got access between one former captain and his afghan interpreter. he spent the week attempting and failing to get the interpreter and his family on a flight. can you take us in these conservations? >> they were incredibly heartbreaking to witness. i spoke with him who was communitying with his former interpreter who is ther...

Troops who are at the airport who are trying to clearly do the best they can to help people. it has got to be an incredibly difficult and just even horrific thing to witness. to be the one, you know, picking up a baby from this crowd and not -- you know, what do you do in that situation? what would you like to see happen now? >> gosh. its a big situation and -- and im certainly not aware of all the dynamics. but i think, you know, it was mentioned earlier i think ambassador crocker and you were ...

Interpreters that have been so brave and put their lives on the line for the british and to whom we owe such a debt of gratitude. what a dreadful dereliction of duty that dominic raab couldnt even be bothered to get up off his sun lounger and make that phone call. it is simply unacceptable and this thing about whether it wouldnt have helped anyway, why where the senior aides making that recommendation in the first place? mr making that recommendation in the first place? m— first place? mr kinn...

No one is interested in the story of how this unfolds on the effects on your life, on your schools, on your infrastructure, on your taxes. does it make you happier? does it improve your life? do you think joni ernst cares? are you kidding? no. they go before the cameras, message eye care, im a good person, im compassionate? you, you know, who cares what you think. you are just a citizen. will: governor reynolds, whats your response. >> first of all, these are individuals that have been employed ...

In crete on sunday on the day that kabul collapsed. then it was said he was advised to make a phone call to the afghan foreign minister to help evacuate interpreters the safety... he advise a junior minister, even though he was told it had to be made by him. the call was never made. the government said the reason it was delegated was because dominic raab was busy on other calls and the reason it never happen was because it was not possible to arrange this call before the afghan government collap...