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Contingency. i sent them plan after plan on how to evacuate these people. nobody listened to us. they didnt plan for evacuation of our war allies. theyre trying to conduct it now. they got what they were most concerned of by failing to do what was right when we could have done it. we had all the people and equipment in place to be able to save these people months ago and we did nothing. im appalled that he thinks we need to only take 2,000 people. theres 86,000 people in afghanistan alone. we id...

Was being used. >> you have blown the credibility of the entire interview. >> do you think you are an attractive person now because you are single and ready -- jillian: there you have it. the other thing i will check out, cuomo did say he was trying to do the right thing but reports that he was the one who encouraged governor cuomo to say he was the victim of cancel culture. i will leave it at that. >> and incidents like this highlight why we need the media to stop focusing on this and be critic...

Runways and plenty of space on the ground to move airplanes around. there is limited space. it is the key perhaps to the only factor how fast the u.s. can get people in and out at maximum capacity, 5,000 people a day. the problem is the u.s. isnt at that capacity yet and until it gets there, moving people becomes incredibly difficult. first of course, u.s. embassy personnel and then all the afghan interpreters and families desperate to get out of afghanistan right now. >> yeah, much more, not as...

Our troops on the ground the whole time. their lives are now in immediate danger. whats the status? >> their lives, yes, sean, their lives are in peril right now. i cant begin to express to the american people and to the viewers the terror that is reaping through kabul right now. ive been on the phone for the past few days with my friends. i consider them my friends. they are some 50,000 interpreters, the people that stood by our troops, men like my husband who was wounded in afghanistan in 2011...

Out if it came to this. their lives are now imperiled for that. >> right, this is a stain on the presidency. he has blood on his hands and we kept repeatedly warning the administration when you have to get these interpreters are afghan partners out of there. until the very last minute now this rush to the airport to get them out and that we dont even have planes leaving the airport. now they will be left behind, they will be slaughtered by the taliban. this president didnt listen to his generals...

Return to work, clearly there is a test here, lots of people who fled afghanistan in decades past dont believe them, clearly, that they say this is just a fig leaf. believe them, clearly, that they say this isjust a fig leaf. others believe them, clearly, that they say this is just a fig leaf. others say wait and see, lets see if the taliban have changed to some degree. what are your thoughts on that? words are not enough. action is what will speak much louder and more convincingly than words. i...

In the coming hours and days to make a difference? joining us is major matt zeller, dedicated to bringing interpreters safely to the u.s. thank you for being here. i know you havent slept and its been a difficult time. >> thanks for having me. yeah, i have family in kabul right now. this has been tough. >> tell me about what can be done. i ask you that first because i am so clear that you have been sounding the alarm, warning that it was going to go this way for so long. you were right. for week...

Interpreters that arent in the u.s. and their family in afghanistan will be targeted as well. thats the reality. >> yesterday president biden said one of the reasons that afghan civilians were not evacuated sooner was because, quote, they did not want to leave earlier, still hopeful for their country, unquote. is that true? >> no, i dont think so, because i think a lot of people were trying to climb to the airplanes. they are trying to -- its kind of difficult for them because they want to get o...

Of afghans who helped u.s. force along with their families. with the kabul airport back up and running officials hope to ramp up evacuations beginning in the next 24 hours. joining us conversation is a veteran who deployed three times to afghanistan and is now in constant contact with interpreters in the united states and still left behind in afghanistan. hes the president and founder of the veterans alliance. thank you for your time today. whats critical is that youre in touch with these interp...

Whats your sense of how many of those people there are and what fate waits for them? they cant get to kabul for a shot to get on a transport plane? >> i think about half of the special immigrant visa applications are outside of kabul. which is directly contradictory to what administration officials told me they believed all of them were in kabul, that was more wishful thinking. i wouldnt know what to say to an afghan in kandahar, or herat. i dont know how were going to get to the provincial capi...