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West participated in the saigon evacuation of 1975 and says, quote, our military can airlift out those who fought alongside us to do the minimum. the air force evacuated 45,000 people from saigon including 5600 us citizens. present-day pentagon officials are attempting to evacuate 22,000 people. todd: thousands at risk as chaos erupted in kabul. michael mccall sounding the alarm. >> this is a stain on the presidency. he has blood on his hands. we cant warning the administration you have to get t...

Relationship with the mullah. the taal bang are not trustworthy which is why the trump administration pressuring the afghan government to release 5,000 taliban prisoners including some who had been linked to the killing of u.s. troops contributed to this dition astor. but one issue that united all members of congress was the moral obligation to protect afghan interpreters who risked their lives to aid our effort. thats why there was a lopsided 417-17 vote in the house to expand and accelerate th...

Yesterday. hence you had that breach and thousands of people were on the tarmac. i was in touch with a number of afghans who made it on to the tarmac and were witnessing those scenes. these were afghan interpreters who thought that if they got to the airport that perhaps they could get on a plane out of there. only a handful of afghans, and we saw that image of more than 600 crammed on to that transport plane that flew them out of afghanistan, i mean that obviously is the hope of so many others....

Never really did see trump pull out from afghanistan. so we dont know how a trump administration would have handled it. but for the most part, they are skirting that question and pinning the blame directly at biden. and its fair to say that many democrats are doing that as well when it comes to trying to at least get a number of americans that are still in the country out, as well as, and most importantly, to many members of congress, those afghan interpreters and anyone who really helped us in ...

And that is welcomed, but ive seen at least four different lists of afghans who are awaiting evacuation, and right now the only thing we can tell them is added your name to all of the lists because we dont know what list is going to work. theres a lot of these folks do not have visas because the process has been so bureaucratic, so problematic, so delayed and long that they have not been able to get those visas. some of them are unable to get passports for their spouse, for their young children....

Planning. there is always uncertainty. butjust one piece of evidence of the lack of planning was that all 2500 current us military personnel in afghanistan were evacuated. bhagwan airbase was given back to the afghan national army and within a few weeks we have had to put nearly 7000 american military forces back in two withdraw the civilian personnel at the embassy and interpreters and other afghan nationals who with us. that is not a plan, that is chaos. ice nationals who with us. that is not ...

Government workers we are told. the taliban are seeking to calm fears by offering amnesty to afghan government employees and making assurances to women, claiming womens rights will be respected under islamic law. however, other video we have obtained shows a shooting of a woman in afghanistan. correspondent trey yingst is in our middle east newsroom with more. >> on their second full day in power, the taliban took a victory lap appearing before the media the groups press secretary congratulated ...

Flights getting out of the international airport every hour on the hour. so i think were now hunkering down. the state department, people are working overtime, 24/7. remember, those interpreters and those helpers all helped people at the state department too. so people really have a vested interest in this. >> it goes to show you that america cannot create reproductions of our culture in other countries and remake them in our image. there are some people who are going to cleave to those modernis...

Whole time. their lives are now in immediate danger. whats the status? >> their lives are in peril right now. i cant begin to stress to the american people and to the viewers the terror that is going through kabul right now. with my friends, some of the 50,000 interpreters that work with our troops on the ground in afghanistan. these are the people that stood by our troops, men like my husband who was wounded in afghanistan in 2011, they stood by them, worked with them, and they were promised th...

Were talking about whether or not to get people out who are going to get slaughtered. and thats whats on our hands right now. and thats whats really recking so many afghanistan vets across the country right now. if you look at my cell phone, so many other people who have been in the media for the last couple of weeks, were getting messages from friends inside of afghanistan, saying what do i do? and veterans saying, how do i get my friends out? theres developed an underground railroad for interp...