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Refugees. mark, i know that you have a lot of contacts on the ground. what are you hearing about safety and security and the ability to get out right now? >> well, chuck, there is no safety and security, and there no ability to get out right now. even for the people who are u.s. citizens or the people who have special immigrant visa holders and let alone the vulnerable people, and the activists, and the religious minorities and the media and the ngos, they cannot get out right now. >> there is 2...

0 >> karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. well, dont worry, andrea, youre not going very far. were coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to "mtp daily." a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president bidens agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside t...

Did a good job trying to lay out why this is so difficult to get the number on the ground. but theyve also constrained their measure of success to american citizens and sivs. i dont know what they mean by vulnerable afghans because there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerable afghans. but i think its just indicative of how difficult it is to get a number on how many american citizens and others either are in the siv process, american citizens that may be permanent residents of the united states...

Housed. >> these are people that have been cleared by or gone through irc or the other agency you mentioned and they have done processing and things like that? >> yeah, thats their expertise. were not the ones screening the refugee families. those organizations that have been around for obviously a very long time are doing the screening. they matched us and we work on the host side. >> and are you doing this in countries around the world? >> all countries around the world that will receive refug...

Refugee families. those organizations that have been around for obviously a very long time are doing the screening. they matched us and we work on the host side. >> and are you doing this in countries around the world? >> all countries around the world that will receive refugees. so obviously, united states here but were in 220 countries and regions and so i expect us to be able to -- our hosts to be able to receive refugees and refugee families in countries all over the world. >> there are thos...

Are. a lot of these people travel too with documentations, the forms that they filled in for the siv process, their passports too. but also a lot traveling without any documentation. there are apparently thousands of afghan military aged males who are undocumented who made their way on to the base during a lapse in the process. and on the bases they want to check that these people are who they say they are. no piece of intelligence out there that mean that they could be a potential threat to the...

That access for evacuees to the airport is something that we are hearing from sources on the ground just is impossible for a lot of people. remember, yesterday at the briefing, i asked a general question of the press secretary, does the president understand the issue people have is not with leaving afghanistan but how hes leaving afghanistan. pulling out troops before pulling out americans that are now stranded. the press secretary took issue with stranded. she said nobody in afghanistan is stra...

I can tell you and confirm for you we take the vetting of any individual that comes to the united states and comes out incredibly seriously. its an extensive process. this is now to be the largest track to be largest airlift in u.s. history. so no, i would not say that is anything but a success. >> i know that you said yesterday its irresponsible to say that americans are stranded in afghanistan right now. what do you say to the american citizens in kabul that fox spoke to this morning? her name...

Convey the vetting standards and to assure any state officials that people that may end up in their state are okay? first, no one is coming to the united states that is not gone through a security vetting process. i would note to peters earlier question, for people that we evacuated and not completed security vetting unthe sid process in the interest of getting them out of afghanistan, were front loading our security screening to complete the steps that have proven most likely to surface derogat...

Facilitate this process. what is the last call for americans on the ground there to come to the airport at kabul? >> were in touch with americans and have contact with and i can give you an overall assessment where we stand with that but im not going to give you more than that from here. >> any active threats? you talked about the statement throesed by isis k. are there any active threats to kabul right now? >> im not going to give you an intelligence assessment from here. i can convey to you th...