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call, i think that could represent a real watershed. >> "the atlantics" tim alberta, thank you very much for your analysis this morning. that does it for us this morning. jose diaz-balart picks up live coverage right now. 7:00 a.m. pacific, im jose diaz-balart. we begin with the ongoing repercussions from the search of former president donald trumps mar-a-lago club, one week ago today. two senior law enforcement officials tell nbc news the fbi and the homeland security department are...

Processing that the government has done in the last year, at the current rate of issuing visas, its going to take 18 years to get through the backlog. these people dont have that time. so one of the things that i would like to really highlight is, were calling out in our report, probably the most important recommendation anyone is going to give at this moment. simply put, the biden administration has to create a united for afghanistan program that is modeled after the uniting for ukraine program...

The remain in mexico policy, im glad the biden administration has now decided theyre moving forward. everything in my mind is moving too slowly, even from the biden administration. i just have to say that, because i think that trump did a massive disaster on all of our agencies. he cut all of the staff of agencies that are doing good processing, you know, he really eviscerated all of our systems for processing people. were trying to rebuild them, but it is slow work and republicans have continue...

Afghanistan. there is a huge difference between 6,015,000. what happened to these other americans. the situation with the special immigrant visa is even more disturbing. not counting the sivs that arrived before kabuls fall, you evacuated 705 of roughly 20,000 principle siv applicants. what happened to these people? this committee reached out to the department in april, may and june to help expedite siv processing. we asked that additional -- what additional authorities or resources you needed f...

Detailed the numbers, but as we have said, including in the context of the siv processing we determined that there were people based at the embassy who could have been based back here in the washington, d.c. area who could help to adjudicate the chief emission level processing for siv applicants. now, what is true is that we are going down to a smaller diplomatic presence given the security situation, but as you said, our overall status has not change. we have been on order departure since april...

We obviously havent detailed numbers, but, as we have said, including in the context of siv processing, we determined, for example, that there were people based at the embassy who could have been based back here in the washington, d.c. area, who could help adjudicate the chief of mission level processing for siv applicants. now, what is true is that we are going down to a smaller diplomatic presence given the security situation. but, as youve said, our overall status has not changed. we have bee...