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For women and many will attack the united states. they left afghanistan in total disarray and created a humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees and displaced afghans in need of immediate emergency assistance. secretary blinken, you characterize the evacuation as an extraordinary effort. youve touted over 124,000 evacuees but we have abandon the the people. theying with plague the by a lack of basic planning and ignoring repeated congressional offers to help, and a failure to recognize the...

Evacuate american citizens and allies left behind in afghanistan. can you tell us exactly what the new u.s. government-led efforts are and coordination with outside groups and individuals being handled, by who, what is the nature of the d.o.d./state cooperation? give us a sense of that. >> we have within the department led to john bass who went back to lead the he vac efforts in kabul. is leading an effort to manage and coordinate all the ongoing efforts to bring people who wish to leave afghani...

Effort, an isis-k attack killed 13 service members working the gates at hkai. our service members gave their lives so that others could continue to live theirs. in the end, we completed one of the biggest airlifts in history. with 124,000 people vaccevacuato safety and on august 31st in kabul, the military in afghanistan officially ended and a new diplomatic mission began. i want to acknowledge the more than two dozen countries that have helped with the relocation effort. some serving as transit...

Train, and one that was in train was the establishment of operationallys refugee, we received cable on july 13th and that operation was put into force on july 14th, it had already been planned for sometime. and this was an if effort to expedite the identification and relocation of sivs, actually putting them on planes which is not part of the program. actually relocating them and working to establish transit sites so they would put them there while we finish processing them. >> that is the probl...

Begin to plan for a worse case scenario contingency. >> in the spring and summer. >> in the spring and summer of this year. >> yes. multiple inner agencies and exercises looking at different contingencies. >> and what was the specific plans put into the likely scenario that american citizens were going to have to evacuate on hostile conditions? >> well, planning went to a number of things including the ability to move our embassy quickly. as we did in 48 hours. including the effort to make sure ...

Lengthy process, 14 steps, multiple agencies involved. we work to try to stream line that. i think there is more work wed like to do going forward to do that. but the bottom line is we did significantly surge our resources to that particularly to the chief admission approval process, quad rupingle them and we went from 10 to 50 to now i believe 61 or 62 working on that stage of things. we doubled the resources we had in kabul. all in an effort to expedite and we did. we went if 100 to 1,000 visa...

Committee, senator shaheen and others, by may, we had reduced the average processing time by a year. even amid a covid surge in kabul, we continued to issue visas. 100 per week in march to more than 1000 per week in march when our relocation effort began. that march evacuation was sparked by the collapse of the afghan security forces and government. throughout the year, we were constantly assessing their staying power and considering multiple scenarios. even the most pessimistic assessments did ...

31st, and theyre still at it. in the midst of this, an isis-k attack killed 13 service members. wounded 30 others. our service members gave their lives so others could continue to live theirs. in the end, we completed one o f the biggest air lifts in history with 124,000 people evacuated to safety and on august 31st in kabul, the military mission in afghanistan officially ended and a new diplomatic mission began. i want to acknowledge the more than two dozen countries that have helped with the r...

Reverse the hard earned rights of afghan women and minorities and a safe haven for terrorists. many who wish to attack the united states. the biden administration left afghanistan in total disarray and single handedly created a humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees and internally displaced afghans in need of immediate emergency assistance. secretary blinken you characterize the evacuation as an extraordinary effort. you have touted over 124,000 evacuees. the departments efforts were pla...

>> dana: joy, tell us about your groups efforts. >> our group is working with the u.s. government finally starting coordination effort with general milley and were proud he did that to insure we bring all our afghan allies home as well as american citizens. were focused on making sure activists, women and journalist and who stood for american ideals dont get left behind. some dont have a contract with the u.s. government. the 20,000 number is greater than what we think. >> human first is working...