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Through september 11th, and then backed it up to july. they also will be blaming it not only around trump administration, but also to congress around that siv program to give thousands of interprets and those who worked for the government to give them some protected access to the united states, and over 17,000 backlogged applications when the trump administration left office, and also pointing to the militar apparatus. and it also said that within six months of the withdrawal of the troops the a...

We anticipated including in the intelligence community and there are a number of other statements of that kind that i can share with you. with regard to the so-called dissent channel cable is something im immensely proud of, a tradition we have and, youre right, i read every such cable. i respond to it. i factor it into my own thinking and actions. and that cable did not predict the collapse of the government or security forces before our departure. it was very focused and rightly focused on the...

As the task force to help those in the siv program get out and to relocate them, which is not part of the program. that was a very important cable. im grateful for it and grateful we have a process at the state department that people with clearly express their views and differences on policy or recommendations on policy. that is usually important. >> gentlemans time has expired. i recognize bill keating from massachusetts for five minutes. >> thanks, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. secretary for yo...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, youre correct. there are f...

Afghanistan. as an adviser to the trump campaign, did you advise them or the president on the moral injury of basically scrapping the siv program that contributed to the difficulties that weve seen in evacuating afghan allies? >> so that wasnt something that i worked on. it would be very hard for me to speak on. something im often an advocate for is mental health for all of our veterans across administrations and something i think is remarkably again bipartisan and nonpartisan ensuring the healt...

Background. dhs is paroleing them in. they arent passing the background checks and they have to skirt around the issue. thats the concern that many republican senators like yourself have. are we going to get answers from the white house? jen psaki says well properly vet them. how do you do that with the large number of afghan refugees were talking about here? >> exactly. we were told that by the administration that everyone before they set foot onto american soil would be vetted. i know there ar...

No one left behind? it was an outright lie. >> right. well, i believe that individual like many others are stuck in that special immigrant visa processing. the d.o.d. inspector general a couple of years ago talked about the extreme processing times and some of the issues that they were having with that program and so the biden administration knew this as they were withdrawing and putting individuals into the visa processing, they knew they werent going to get everyone out. very troubling that th...

Do it the right way. and, so, well do that in the days ahead. >> do you think that -- oh, sorry. >> i was just going to say, i will just say again, helene, im enormously proud of our men and women who worked hard to accomplish what they just accomplished which i think, as i said earlier, is historic and heroic. go ahead. >> do you wish maybe you would have thrown out the book, i mean, the previous administration did leave, i understand, did put a lot of hurdles in the way of the siv program that...

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...

Hello and welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. topping our world lead this hour, president biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan. a senior state department official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u.s. and applied for those special immigrant visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. pentagon officials saying that the siv program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. >> the siv program is obviously not...