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Arranged, as you know, transit countries, so that any afghan coming out of afghanistan would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening, the vetting, the background checks. biometric, biographic and other information that we have. then, as people were cleared in the transit points, they come to the united states, and they are not being resettled immediately, and once they land at dulles or in philadelphia, they are then being sent to military bases where the checks c...

Senator, a couple of things. we arranged as you know transit countries so any afghan coming out of afghanistan would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening. the vetting and the back ground checks. we surged customs and border protection officials to those transit points as well as other security law enforcement agencies to do these checks with biometric, biographic, other information that we have. then, as people were cleared and these transit points, they then c...

Still at transit points around the world. >> it would be tens of thousands? >> so, 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 by 18,000, about half of those and this remains more or less the case now, are at a point where it is before the cleave admission has given his or her approval that they are eligible for the program. >> and we focused on -- i was looking for a number and the question i was lea...

Transit points to make sure before anyone came to the united states they would be vetted by the different law enforcement agencies. we established agreement with more than a dozen countries. >> so who were you letting on the planes? anybody that showed up? >> initially, as you know, people who managed to flood the airport. we had to do an immediate assessment of those. we had to make sure we could clear people out of the airport so flights could come in, go out. but no one came to the united sta...

124,000 people? >> to come to your point. we ranged transit countries so that any afghan coming out of a of after would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening, the vetting, background checks. we surged customs and border protection officials to those transit points as well, of course, as other security law enforcement agencies to do these checks with biometric, and other information that we had. then as people are cleared in these transit points they then come to...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i dont know who youre talking to. but if youre talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if youre talking honestly ...

0 i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons ...

And others. what is the number of americans left in afghanistan as the last update you received? >> congressman, going back to this weekend, we had about 100 american citizens in contact with us that seeked to leave afghanistans. those are the americans that were working with. >> do you have an exact number? >> i cant give you an exact number. were talked about this earlier. its a snapshot at any given moment -- >> as of the last update you received. >> the last update, about 100. >> okay. how m...