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Families are waiting for their visas to be processed. according to the us state department, the average processing time for an application is almost two years. are you scared about your future?— years. are you scared about your future? actually, yes. it is clear that. .. _ the taliban said they were not kill interpreters. but there has been at least one assassination. as they continue to advance, the statements made ijy to advance, the statements made by the leadership were becoming increasing...

Conference by john kirby, another date. now the new date is august 31st. do we have to keep doing this? >> well, it just goes back to the lack of leadership from president biden. when you telegraph your plan to the enemy basic military strategy 101 dont tell them when, how and what youll operate and thats what theyve done. we need to focus on evacuating american situations there. i have a constituent married to an american pilot. they are wanting to go back to afghanistan where they face certain...

Are ready to die that way, just flee and go and just live that life but not live under the talibans law. because 20 years ago they lived and they know how it looks like. they are already going door to door. they are looking for the peoples that worked with foreigners, looking for the pilots, looking for their families, looking for the interpreters. it is terrible to see that situation. afghanistan fall in kabul in one day, and it is really, really scary to even look and see. as an afghan woman, ...

About that in a special debate in parliament tomorrow.— about that in a special debate in parliament tomorrow. we heard from ben wallace — parliament tomorrow. we heard from ben wallace yesterday _ parliament tomorrow. we heard from ben wallace yesterday saying - parliament tomorrow. we heard from ben wallace yesterday saying they i ben wallace yesterday saying they are speeding up things, as much as they can at the airport, but he said some people will be left behind. its shocking, three ye...

For all contingencies. when you look at the scenes yesterday planning for that, for most people would have looked like getting our allies, those interpreters out before we left bagram air base a couple months ago, before the american troops left. should we not have secured all those people who helped america over the past 20 years before our troops left? >> we were working on the issue of special immigrant visas from the state department from the early part of the spring. thats a process that ca...

About present bidens decision, it has been a disaster and lots of other senior commentators have said exactly the same thing, but it has been a disaster. it shocks and dismays me that we are now where we are because of what he did. iloathed dismays me that we are now where we are because of what he did.— are because of what he did. what is the very latest _ are because of what he did. what is the very latest the _ are because of what he did. what is the very latest the uk _ are because of what...

But theres a right way to withdraw. and the president can say that he planned for every contingency, but he knows thats not true. the white house knows thats not true. and the american people know thats not true. and thats how a 75% proposition has devolved into a political disaster for this white house. they need to turn things around and the first thing they need to do is they need to save those who helped save our troops over the past 20 years. we just cant keep abandoning allies in the field...

Get everyone, get the americans out, able to make sure that americans who arent at the airport yet are able to get there without being hurt, if theyre able to get the interpreters, the people who helped us over the last 20 years out, this is in a few months a different conversation were going to end up having. because the american people are behind the president for the most part on this, on the getting out. the execution of that is one thing i think that were unsure how that is playing with the...

Beret, evan hafer, thank you for being here, appreciate your time this morning. jillian: you are employing some afghan interpreters, we wanted to speak to some of them. i understand they are scared. give us insight into how they are feeling. >> afghan his work for us from our counterparts that i worked with all the way back to 2008. we started this process several years ago so we have multiple families here in salt lake city. our first person we got in contact with is an afghan he commander, has...

In any way they can. their desperation evident in these scenes at kabul airport. the us says it has now secured the airport in order to evacuate americans and otherforeigners. yet some people are managing to get out. this evacuation flight took off with an astonishing 640 afghan refugees on board. charities in the uk have urged the government to help refugees fleeing the taliban to settle in britain. ministers say that more than 3000 afghan interpreters and their families who worked with uk forc...