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washington, d.c., and marthas vineyard. >> instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings using them as props. what theyre doing is simply wrong. its unamerican. its reckless. >> the white house says the migrants were misled about where they were being taken and what would be provided once they arrived. we get more from cnns priscilla alvarez. >> reporter: dozens of migrants are set to spend the night on marthas vineyard, sent there by flori...

Country. the government has faced criticism for delays in processing visas for ukrainian refugees trying to get into the uk. earlier i spoke to the policing minister who says that the government is trying its best and is aiming to make the process easier. >> we are trying our best to streamline the system and make it as fast as possible. obviously weve expanded the number of appointments, weve made the system easier, the forms required to be filled in easier. and in fact just this week my team...

That the state department under the trump administration was unwilling because they stopped processing visas of our allies, and then didnt ramp up just to handle the capacity, the sheer volume in the six months that joe biden has been president. i guess now my question for the admiral is, how do we prosecute isis-k if we have no presence in afghanistan? we arent even going to have an embassy and a marine presence at the embassy per the usual. how are we going to do this in eastern afghanistan wi...

Their families. we are processing visas for afghans eligible for siv status. we are working with allies and partners to move them to third countries while their paper work is completed. we are assisting eligible afghans under the priority 1 and 2 refersals to u.s. refugees admissions programs and humanitarian parole. we are working with our allies and partners to identify and assist other afghans at risk including women and girls. human rights defenders. journalists and other civil society actor...

Enormous contributions to the american society, much like the vietnamese community did after the vietnam war. we just celebrated one who won a gold medal in the olympics, for instance. and so the republican arguments against the withdrawal and how its been executed ignore the fact that their party and their president wanted to slam the door in the face of all these people. they have no moral standing to criticize joe biden for the execution of the withdrawal when they themselves would not have h...

Quickly that weve not had a chance for the state department to catch up processing visas. and so this is what we need to do. we have to physically get them and their families out of afghanistan because they will be hunted down and retaliated against by the taliban. what happened in iraq is a great example of what could happen if we dont do right by these folks. what you didnt see in that ad was the fact that for months they were in the month mans land in iraq and turkey while saddam hunted them ...

If you can get to turkey, well fly you here. he flew them to guam where they were for months while we figured out the visa process. i would support president biden if he chose to do that. well do everything we can to pass this bill, but we cant leave these guys behind. we have to take them too. >> senator, "the wall street journal" broke an exclusive story tonight. they said -- ill read at you the lede. the u.s. military is preparing to house as many 35,000 afghan interpreters and their families...

Unhelpful in providing any real details about exactly whats going on. today, even though the state department is not sharing much of whats happening in cuba, they did take a big dramatic step. they announced theyre pulling about 60% of the u.s. embassy staff out of the embassy of the united states and cuba. about 50 americans working at the havana embassy and the only ones to stay behind now are so-called essential staff, people there just to carry out emergency services. the state department ha...

Would cause the symptoms that diplomats have experienced in cuba. so we know these incidents started in the fall of last year and then stopped for a while and then this summer, apparently, they picked up again. the most recent reportedly happened in late august. and we know all of that stuff from reporting, not from our government, not from the state department. theyve been tight lipped an unhelpful in providing any real details about exactly whats going on. today, even though the state departme...

>> he skipped the last republican presidential debate in las vegas saying he wanted to focus in on the first of the nation primary state of new hampshire. but former utah governor john huntsman is trailing in that critical state while rival mitt romney is enjoying a solid lead. john huntsman is joining us from salt lake city. governor, thanks very much for coming in. >> thank you, wolf. its an honor to be with you. >> lets talk about mitt romney a little bit. george will, the conservat...