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Boris, everybody will be listening for what president biden has to say. we understand that he is going to be talking about a safe passage for these afghan interpreters and translators. we know there is something like -- >> up fortunately it appears as though weve had some technical difficulties. anna, are you there? >> but as i was saying, weve learned that only 9,000 of those siv applications will be processed. but president biden is likely to announce a safe passage. we know hes been talking t...

Interpreters, i fully agree that the united states needs to have an aggressive plan to get them out as fast as possible. im told from people inside the administration that more than 1,000 are coming out every month. thats not fast enough. that we are actively providing resources to them so that they can get to third countries and military bases, but at the end of the day there are numerous congressional statutes and laws that require intelligence assessments before people can be repatriated here...

Road system. the third, the most important for me, is making sure we are honoring or promises to those afghan allies, the partners, interpreters who fought alongside us, and honoring our promises, we have passed legislation and will pass more legislation in the coming weeks to speed that process up. if there is honor to be had here in the months ahead, its by doing right with our partners and sending a message that we will not leave behind those who fought with us. its extremely pont we get that...

Special forces, my fellow green berets have to go back again, they will have no basis and our local allies are being decimated as we speak. >> benjamin: lets come to the moral implications as well looking at "the new york post" headlines, the last thing we need is a rush to chaotic afghanistan pullout, and as a consequence, we leave allies in the lurch. >> that is absolutely right, everyone who worked with us the last 20 years who fought and stood with us against the extremism has a bulls-eye on...

Interpreters and translators seem to we are no longer going to have military their activities and we will not meet them and anyone else that will be vital to our efforts and he had been very vital and a families are not exposed to danger as well. we have already dramatically accelerated the procedure of time for a special immigrant visas. to bring to the united states. since i was inaugurated onjanuary united states. since i was inaugurated on january 20, united states. since i was inaugurated o...

Attacks, and now it seems it will happen a bit faster, given that 90% of the drawdown is already complete, a lot of the outstanning questions remaining on what will happen with thousands of afghan nationals, our partners there in terms of drivers, engineers, interpreters. jen psaki just told reporters that theyre planned to maybe be evacuated by the end of next month. a lot of people have said that might be too late. well hear the president detail a bit of the strategy, where they may be relocat...

Agreement that president trump struck to get the troops out of afgha afghanistan. this is a war he thought should have ended a long time ago. essentially his way of looking at it was he could meet the agreement that president trump had made with the taliban to get u.s. troops out of there, o, john, he was going to have to break that agreement, risk having u.s. troops fired upon, and were told he was looking at it that he couldnt maintain the status quo. they would have to send more troops there....

Left behind, which advocates bringing afghan interpreters safely to the u.s. thank you so much for being here. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me, maam. >> what are you hoping to hear from president biden tomorrow, and do you have any expectations about what you will hear? >> i hope he says the words were going to get them to guam. guam is the best place to bring these people. the island stands ready to receive them. it has a historical precedent having been used in other evacuat...

The defense department has said that they are ready to evacuate these people out. the governor of guam has said that he is ready to accept, as guam has done with south koreans, vietnamese, and others that have fought along side with us. to this decision states with joe biden. it sits at the commander in chief, and we are getting nothing but silence. it is worth noting, dana, that a 1975, senator biden voted against the inoculation of the south vietnamese people and didnt support it. he said we h...

Rushes the overtake the country. and they took risks to support u.s. forces. the question is whether the u.s. can make good on the promise to take care of them, in this case to evacuate them out of the country in very short order. it is to that point that the veterans group vote vets released a powerful new ad with 11 sitting members of congress all of whom are veterans, all trying to pressure president biden basically into keeping americas promise to protect the interpreters that assisted the u...