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Whereupon they knew the afghan government would collapse. they deliberately sabotaged the process to make sure those afghan visas would not be processed in a timely manner. elizabeth newman under trump publicly confirmed the account of how it happened, the trump administration deliberately sabotaging the visas for the afghan allies which is why so many have been stuck all of this time. some has been hiding in plain sight. in 2019 a federal judge ruled the trump administration broke the law by ra...

Created for them for just that purpose. she is saying, yes, that process of getting that visa was already cumbersome, but she is saying under the trump administration while they were making overt plans to end the war in afghanistan and bring all u.s. troops home from afghanistan like trump was bragging about, right, while trump was bragging that, yes, certainly he would bring home all of the troops and, yes, certainly the afghan government would collapse as soon as he did that but he wanted all ...

Security, at state and security agencies that made the already cumbersome siv process even more challenging. quote, the fear of people across the trump administration to counter these enablers was palpable. there were numerous behind-closed-door meetings, strategizing about how to navigate this issue. she says, quote, trump had four years while putting this plan in place to evacuate these afghan allies who were the lifelines for many of us who spent time in afghanistan. they had been waiting a l...

The trump administration, but it is still another thing to have senior officials inside the administration say, yeah, that process was broken, it was broken deliberately. deliberately in order to strand the afghans who helped us. joining us now is olivia troye who served in the white house as a top adviser to vice president mike pence. olivia, ms. troye, it is nice to see you. thank you for being back with us tonight. >> thanks for having me. it is nice to see you again. >> let me just ask you i...

Issues to really push the needle forward or get anything done. i know mike pence knows this. he knows that this fall fell under my portfolio. he would follow up with me. he would call me to check up on some of the applicants and find out what the process was. but it was a well-known think that stephen miller and allies were -- we had to meet with them. their heads of office. they were installed and purpose. some of these loyalists eventually were installed in the nfc were other public servants, ...

They worked as part of the security mission in afghanistan, they helped our forces there, why cant they get their visa applications processed? why is that process so broken and under resourced? why does it take so long. here is olivia troyee earlier today. i met with numerous external organizations during my white house tenure who advocated for refugees and pleaded for help in getting u.s. allies through the process. i got the phone calls and letters. she said, quote, the system wouldnt budge, r...

A national security council meetings. the pentagon weighed in saying we need to get these allies through the process. mattis and others send memos. now, that is checkable, actually. and we checked and she is right about that. here is the defense secretary james mattis memo in september 2018 tell in the administration. advising the administration as secretary of defense, do not limit the numbers of people who are going to get in. we need to protect and prioritize these iraqis and afghans who alig...

One of the things that emerged in that court case where the trump administration was found have broken the law by breaking the process so much on processing these things, is that well as you say today, they started off as a cumbersome process, the number of siv visas that were issued overtime by the u.s. government dramatically declined under president trump. and that the process actually broke the law. theres a legal requirement in terms of how quickly people need to hear, one way or the other,...

Sabotaging the process. what does she say? she called it devastating the system. at homeland security and the state department on purpose. so that those visas for our afghan allies would get stuck in the system for ever. so those afghan allies wouldnt be able to get out. as they were planning to take out all u.s. troops, were up and they knew the afghan government would collapse. they deliberately sabotaged the process to make sure those afghan visas would not be processed in any timely manner. ...

Picks up our news coverage now. >> thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. im alecia menendez. the massive high stakes operation to evacuate americans and their families in taliban held afghanistan. there are more than 80,000 afghans already waiting in a live and death situations. waiting to come to the u.s. the process is a refugee program gutted from the previous administration. this final year in office trump had the refugee ceiling at 50,000 down from the 100,000 refugees allo...