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Spouses i talk to will bring this up. theyre so concerned about the interpreters, drivers, engineers and other afghans who help the u.s., there are tens of thousands of people and many more family members who are in this category. and their lives are in danger. in the absence of a mass evacuation of these afghans who help the u.s., whats going to happen to them? >> if they are left behind and security crumbles, again i hope my worst fears are not realized, but if that happens they and their fami...

Glacial at best. it takes far longer, multiple times to what it would take to put a rover on mars. theres hope as well here that there could be legislation that could streamline this process. theres hope that the state department, being more aggressive on this can speed the numbers. but the bottom line is, youre not going to get 18,000 interpreters and their families out by the time that we are gone. then if the situation does deteriorate rapidly, well see a very serious situation for them in ad...

And youre right, time is running out. when that last u.s. soldier goes wheels up and leaves afghanistan, we have handed these people a death sentence. this is personal to me, pete -- pete: likewise. >> these afghans stood with us shoulder to shoulder in combat, they were critical. we couldnt talk to the local people, we couldnt talk to our afghan security forces fighting with us to our left and our right without these, without these interpreters. they are being hunted down by the taliban as we s...

And they need some confidence to continue to do their job, because its a very difficult situation with that force right now. and incidents like mr. clyde and others do not help. >> speaking of support, i know this is something youre passionate about. you and some of your colleagues in the house introduced that bill to protect the afghan interpreters who supported the u.s. for years and are now fearing for their lives. as we begin to withdraw the troops from afghanistan, jake sullivan did talk ab...

Their foot on the gas because they want to get this deal done before an even harder line administration comes into tehran. pete: so got it. just in time for a new hard-liner, theyll be flush with cash -- >> thats right. pete: and the people congratulating him for his victory are putin -- >> and thats who will be are trusting them to keep their end of the bargain -- [laughter] pete: its nuts. theres move over the afghanistan because its crunch time there. >> yeah. pete: u.s. troops are leaving da...

Interpreters, desperately seek visas to leave afghanistan before the last u.s. troops are gone and taliban comes to hunt them down. jennifer griffin has the story tonight. >> military veterans from no one left behind waited three hours at dulles international airport washington, d.c. to greet this transwho risked his life for the u.s. for years and finally received his special immigrant visa to the u.s. on may 27th as the u.s. troops hasten their withdrawal. fearful the taliban will target his f...

The notes of an interpreter after he met with president putin and told the interpreter not to discuss the meeting. and, of course, in helsinki, he had a two-hour-long meeting with president putin and there was no one else in the meeting except for the interpreters. this format weve seen today totally different. then hes joined by a number of respected u.s. diplomats who know russia well. i think one of the folks notable in that room is torey newland. she has spent an immense amount of time in u....

Anthony blinken, president putin, his foreign minister, sergey lavrov will start, and their interpreters, and they will expand out, adding five more officials. they expect around four to five hours but one interesting element senior administration officials stress is they built in flexibility in their negotiations with the russians in terms of how long this will go, when there will be breaks. theyre going to see how things move through the first two meetings to decide if anything else is going t...

People may remember fiona hill people may remember from the impeachment proceedings. they say president biden will not be winging for it. he has been preparing for this for years if not his entire career. >> the white house, secretary of state are all downplaying the expectations for this meeting saying there is not going to be any deliverables. no switch will be suddenly turned on. do you think thats pretty accurate? >> i do much the biden administration has a representation for underpromising,...

Tomorrow in switzerland that is not afraid to call him out on cybersecurity, on election meddling, on human rights, on the issues that we believe they disrupt global stability and global order. it will be different from the handshake and the winks that putin got for four years from donald trump. there will be interpreters and aides in these meetings. this wont be just the two of them talking about god only knows what. so, i dont expect, again, that that, in and of itself, is four years of repair...