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0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...

And they were very nice people, but they were promised that these were people that helped america in afghanistan. we dont know for sure all those folks are right now. so, what do you know about that? when are we going to start this process where we know these are the people that are on the battlefield with our troops and their families? >> first of all there is some processing going on every one of these individuals, in fact, in the first wave, there was a report that 44 people out of the first ...

Afghanistan, really trying to highlight that despite the fact that the end days were very messy in that country the bigger picture is that the country is now on a path where we are not engrained in war in that country. >> kylie, once again secretary blinken was unable to give specific numbers when it comes to the special immigrant visa applications. isnt that a tangible number? why dont they know exactly how many sivs there are that still need and want to come here? >> yeah, i mean the secretary...

Refugee that you have received so far, only 1,000 at that point, do we know they have some form of i.d. we didnt. were hearing all these assurances that we are getting biometricly screened. a 14-step plan. i asked the head of northern command at fort mccoy. describe the steps to me. what do we screen them against? our isis and al qaeda terrorists, have we biometricly screened them in the past that we can compare them to a database? what is the 14-step process and detail. not just 14 steps. tell ...

We dont have those numbers yet. as we moved to evacuate people a number of them are at transit points around the world. >> tens of thousands? >> realistically two things. one, we talked about this a little bit earlier but of the applicants in the program, and as i said we inherited about 18,000. about half of those. this remains the case now, are at a point where it is before the chief of mission has given his or her approval they are in fact eligible for the program. we focused on the -- >> i w...

People a number of them are still at transit points around the world -- >> but it would be tens of thousands? >> realistically, two things, one, we talked about this a little earlier, but of the applicants in the program, the -- as i said, we inherited about 18,000. about half of those -- this remains more or less the case now, are at a point where its before the chief admission has given his or her approval that they are in fact, eligible for the program. >> i am looking for a number, and i gue...

Involved in the evacuation of so many people under such a short period of time under such difficult circumstances. i want to get to where we are today. during this process, the state department was very open to all members of congress, democrats, republicans, as we filtered information into you about vulnerable people and in an effort to get them out of afghanistan. today our offices are still being delugeed by requests to help people that are in afghanistan, ngos are working very aggressively. ...

But it is important that we go back and look at all this. >> time has expired. >> thank you. >> senator sidney. >> thank you, mr. chairman and secretary blinken for appearing before the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges of the evacuation, and over the situation of special immigrant visa applicants and the talibans treatment of women and girls and other minorities, and i also agree with your assessment and that has been given by several o...

Back and look at all of this. >> the time has expired. >> thank you. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you secretary blinken for appearing for the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges with the evacuation, over the situation of special immigrant visa applicants and the taliban treatment of women and girls and other mine oorities and i also agree that assessment and given by several others that where we were when we go...

>> so the siv numbers, that were tabulating right now because were trying to account for every one who has come in. some people remain in transit countries. other people are now in the united states. were putting all of those numbers together to determine -- the overwhelming majority of afghans who have come out of afghanistan thanks to our evacuation efforts are in one way or another afghans at risk. some will be siv applicants and others will be p-1 or p-2 or afghans at risk. were breaking dow...