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Immigration visa program. the siv program, right? which -- which brings to america those afghans who worked closely with us and might be vulnerable if the -- if the taliban rose to power. so -- so at a minimum, we spent those 14 months or -- or -- or more -- um -- sort of sitting on our hands. when we couldve been making progress against the numbers that need to be evacuated today. >> thats right. >> so we lost a lot of time. >> that -- we had an anti-muslim and anti-non-white immigrant administ...

Literally passing their babies over a wall, covered with razor wire, begging the british to take their children, because they know that their children will be murdered by the taliban if they dont get inside of that airport. think how desperate a mother or father would have to be to do such a thing, but they do itit c because thats all they think they can do to save their kids. because they know what the taliban is all about it, and how they treat people.r now, there is no safe passage, not for t...

Raab criticised again over whether or not phone calls were made to his counterpart, that department by anyone from his department ahead of the chaotic scenes we saw. this anyone from his department ahead of the chaotic scenes we saw.— the chaotic scenes we saw. this has been running _ the chaotic scenes we saw. this has been running a _ the chaotic scenes we saw. this has been running a couple _ the chaotic scenes we saw. this has been running a couple of _ the chaotic scenes we saw. this has ...

But were going to have to push out the perimeter of security. we are going to have to, you know, make sure that we can protect people as theyre coming into the airport. so all of this is being negotiated as we speak. and, you know, i was glad to hear that president biden is probably willing to extend the deadline for getting all of our troops out beyond august 31st. >> right. >> they need it. it may take more time. >> yep. and at some point, united states has to be dictating the terms for its ow...

At least a thousand afghan nationals, who worked very closely with us, some of them were my interpreters when i was on the air with you from afghanistan. we are trying to get them out before they are hunted down. and now, the enemy has the addresses and phone numbers, and they are calling them up, trying to entice them to come on over. they come over, they are dead. number four. the resistance units forming in the pender valley are appealing for help. is anyone in the u.s. government answering t...

Thing to witness, to be the one picking up a baby from this crowd and not -- what do you do in that situation? what would you like to see happen now? >> gosh, thats a big situation and im certainly not aware of all of the dynamics but i think -- you know, it was mentioned earlier, i think ambassador crocker and you were talking, how there were people like me from the military who worked for interpreters and could vet for them. we could use that. there are people with names that we know that we w...

Sincejuly and approximately 13,000 since july and approximately 13,000 sincejuly and approximately 13,000 since our military airlift began on august the 14th. thousands more have been evacuated and private charter flights facilitated by the us government will stop these numbers include american citizens and permanent residents as well as their families. it includes siv applicants and theirfamilies. thus families. it includes siv applicants and their families. thus afghans who have worked alongsi...

The military, now serve in congress, equal number of democrats and republicans, our concern is making sure we leave no one behind. obviously, that starts with americans and of course, the people we promised -- made promises to work with us and trusted our lives with them and the interpreters and make sure that we uphold those promises and uphold our obligation to them to get them and family members out of that country. so well be sending a letter to the president, to the administration, making s...

>> yeah. >> and i think you just see how his service has put his family at risk. and one of the things i reflect on is, you know, very few people -- a lot of people have served in this war, but very few americans actually have served. >> yes. >> there are a lot of afghans who have served in this war for america. >> and we just heard, i mean, he is an american citizen, and this is causing a crisis of faith. his family is at risk. we may have lost the battle, we may have lost the war, but we dont ...

Good morning, welcome to breakfast withjon kay and naga munchetty. our headlines today. with desperate crowds continuing to mass outside kabul airport, plans are made to double evacuation efforts over the weekend. we are with the derbyshire community, moved to tears by scenes in afghanistan but now motivated to help. this lorry is being filled with donations for afghan children who have arrived in the country with nothing but the clothes on their back. more pressure on the foreign secretary domi...