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Outcome that at this point seems inevitable? >> well, youd have to reverse course completely and essentially re-in vvade afghanistan, go back to what we were doing to maintain the status quo in afghanistan. clearly the administration was not comfortable with that. they decided to pull the plug. i think the american public at large was frustrated with afghanistan. and the decision was made, so now its a question of watching the country fall apart from afar. i hate to sound jaded, im sorry. >> loo...

Airport and to assist in the evacuation or partial drawdown of some staff at the u.s. embassy in kabul. the state department spokesman ned price said they will go down to its core staff and also to assist in the evacuation of a gan interpreters and their families and special visa applicants who are beginning to come out of afghanistan. some 1,200 of these afghans have left the country but theres tens of thousands more of them among with their families. john kirby made it clear that the additiona...

Interpreters and others who assisted the efforts in afghanistan out to safety. there is none of this out there, and in that climate of course rumors absolutely multiply. >> it seems as if, you know, say what you will, but suppose it is president trump or president biden who followed through on the order to withdraw, but we had plenty of time to plan for the withdraw, and why is this going as haphazardly as it appears to be going? >> precisely, because we didnt use that time to plan for withdrawa...

That if we do not as a country ensure that every single afghan who helped the british presence over 20 years, interpreters, people who worked with us and helped us, they must be living in sheer terror of what will happen to them if the taliban get there. and we have a duty, and international moral duty to get those people out and give them a home in the country that they helped. and if ever there was a time when we can actually show what true asylum means, its that. and i really hope that will h...

Perform or continue to perform, counterterrorism efforts, security efforts, diplomacy, consular services, really those special immigration visas for the afghans, and thats for the interpreters. of all of the functions thats the one where we have an absolute honorable requirement to fulfill as best we can. everything else becomes secondary. what needs to take place is all of the other functions, lets be frank, they need to migrate back and they need to get out of there, and the american embassy i...

And theyre overmatched. and this is part of why i think the white house is not being straight with the american people and with the world. it is not about troop numbers. these 300,000 troops may not actually be 300,000. there could be these ghost soldiers on paper. didnt we learn a long time ago that troop numbers arent the key to winning modern wars. we had hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground in the iraq and we didnt win there. we didnt win in vietnam and we had overwhelming numbers t...

Humanitarian catastrophe. they cant keep passing the buck over to the afghans. >> this is a white house whose central rational is making government work. to your point about evacuating interpreters and allies. the biden administration has overseen three flights for a total of 700. at the current pace it would take two months to fly out the initial group even though u.s. troops depart on august 31st. do they have two months? >> no. theyre getting slaughtered right now. theyre being slaughtered wh...

Talk about in this reconciliation bill. >> talk about afghanistan a little bit. it is a rapidly deteriorating situation. the taliban are advancing very quickly in afghanistan amidst the withdrawal from there. people that invested the last two decades of their lives helping americans are being targeted as well. what responsibility does the u.s. have and what are they willing to do to help? >> three things. first we have a responsibility to do everything we can to provide for a safe exit of afghan...

Breaking overnight, the taliban seized its sixth provincial capital in afghanistan as the security situation there rapidly is deteriorating. there are growing concerns about whether the afghan military can prevent the taliban from overrunning the country once the withdrawal of u.s. and western forces wraps up here in a few weeks. joining us now is army reserve captain matt zeller, he is also the co-founder of no one left behind which is a nonprofit which has helped thousands of interpreters esca...

Of regime if the taliban does takeover. and people are telling us, look, were trying to get out, trying to take advantage of some of these visa programs that the u.s. has put in place, specifically for people who have worked for american ngos or been interpreters for the u.s. military. but there are a couple of problems here. first of all the taliban has taken the border crossings, about seven, so its difficult to get out of the country, its difficult to then apply for a visa if, for example, yo...