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Story of bureaucratic failure. weve been asking for months how to just get these applications accelerated so people can start leaving the country as they do through any embassy in the world in an orderly process. it wasnt until very late in the game the state gave us an e-mail address. it crashed a few hours after they gave it to us. one thing we discovered in kabul is that one of the biggest burdens on our troops were the thousands of requests coming in from members of congress and members of t...

Only met as part of this process. were doing it because it has to be done because the mission is not over until our american citizens and their families and our allies have been brought back. >> one quick follow and then to colonel wilson. so sarah is in a safe place. is she on her way out of the country? did she get to bring any of the people with her? >> so, chris, we hope to have her on her way out of the country in the next couple days. you know, we would not have been able to do this withou...

As fast as possible. now they embarked on the diplomatic version of this. how do you get people like mohammed who we just heard from, try to get them to safety? but this is not easy. and the fact is he made a commitment and in the end u.s. forces were gone before that commitment was fulfilled. look, i think what were about to enter into is a process in which part of this is going to be political, we know that. his critics of course will be saying over and over again that he failed in this initia...

Going on for years and years and years. weve been doing stories about this. and it happened in iraq as well. >> it is true. i know of cases in iraq specific lipp of people who had been waiting essentially to get what they think the united states owes them. i think this is one of the glaring questions that we now face in this kind of after-action part of the process. to say why is it, what are the bureaucratic, the functional impediments? were the united states of america. if were going to i can ...

Representing american interests if there is an american trapped there or other issue. weve done that in other places. we dont have that arrangement yet presumably the qataris, closest to acstand, we have diplomats in islamabad but its very difficult. for those left behind the afghans the americans we know who they are, weve been in touch with them particularly people who have family connections and reluctant to leave according to the state department. thousands of afghans in the siv process, cou...

And we both said we have never heard of all the people weve been helping and shepherding and moi marshaling weve never heard of a formal admittance through the state department system. its all been the informal networks and people working day and night to dget them in. that is why were doing it. we will leave no one behind. we made that promise to them and we will keep it. >> the easy defense is there is no process because they didnt plan for this and there are too many people and everybody is s...

>> it is an amazing story of veterans commitment to our allies and of american ingenuity. unfortunately, it is also a story of bureaucratic failure. weve been asking for months how to just get these applications accelerated so people can start leaving the country as they do through any embassy in the world in an orderly process. it wasnt until very late in the game the state gave us an e-mail address. it crashed a few hours after they gave it to us. one thing we discovered in kabul is that one o...

Kevin mccarthy who blew the entire process up. it did pass the house but then it was ultimately blocked in the united states senate. then he appointed a number of members to the select committee that would serve as republicans that were a part of the obstruction of the election results. these were people that objected to the election results and also continued to peddle the big guy about the election results in 2020 that really formed as the basis of what motivated so many people to come to the ...

Little girls raped and killed in the streets because we wanted to bring people that are poorly vetted into the united states. >> i have intel telling me people that are being brought in here, there is a significant percentage that are future boston marathon bombers. >> afghanis are brought into this country making once again every town a border town, every city a dangerous border city. >> i got to ask them, do refugees do anything other than rape and murder? look. this is a grotesque and ugly ex...

Earlier with anderson cooper and he said it exactly. there is no plan. where is the plan? what is the plan going forward? we have not witnessed that. sam and i were talking earlier and we both said we have never heard of all the people weve been helping and shepherding and marshaling weve never heard of a formal admittance through the state department system. its all been the informal networks and people working day and night to get them in. that is why were doing it. we will leave no one behind...