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Developing at this hour, a fight over who is to blame for the failure to evacuate more afghans before the u.s. withdrawal. we saw that crush of people trying to leave, of course, there for days before the taliban fully took control. republicans are blaming and have been blaming the biden administration for this, but it didnt start with them. priscilla alvarez is joining me with this new reporting. you have a really interesting detail on this. new detail on the role trump advisor stephen miller p...

Our mission completely depended on the afghans who taught us culture and who translated for us. and they are telling us that we are in hiding, we are going to be killed, we are being hunted door-to-door and having to move locations. they are moving, many of them moving out of kabul to get out of, you know, what feels like just a rash of door-to-door searches, and only the find that they dont feel safer in other places where they have gone. and theres no coherent plan to get any of these folks ou...

Congressional republicans the reports have proliferated on social media. theres no better person to talk to than our good friend former republican strategist steve schmidt. hi there, my friend. how are you doing? >> good to see you, nicolle. >> what do you make of the audacity, i guess is the right word, of republicans to criticize this president for ending a war the ex-president tried to end and wasnt able to and then trotting out all this disinformation from their disinformation tool kit? >> w...

We are not abandoning you, we, the allies you worked with, the veterans who served side by side with you. we wore the same uniform. we shared meals. we worked together. you all enabled us to do our mission in afghanistan. we are committed to not leaving you behind. >> you talk about hope, kristen. do the afghans that youre working with now still have hope, do you think? >> i heard from my own interpreter who, again, ive been working with him for more than ten years over barriers in this visa pro...

Through to tajikistan, to uzbekistan, to pakistan, places where they can process the paperwork. the p2 visa process that was opened up for lives in danger, it has to be proved with extremely rigorous paperwork and processing and again theres nobody on the ground to do the visa processing, and people are running for their lives. they are having to move safe houses every few hours because the taliban keep finding them, pounding on doors, messaging them saying "we know who you are, we know where yo...

Find a way to get them inside but its because the flights were not prioritizing them. if youre an afghan national and god forbid you had troubles with your visa process, you have been left behind, and your family, and your children, and everyone youre related to. families of u.s. citizens, thats, those are some folks on our list, a u.s. citizen has been trying to get his family out, who are in danger because of his service to the united states. they are being hunted down, and he cannot get them ...

Continue. afghan forces assistance fund.net if you want to help. we are collecting funds to help get planes, flights and help with the visa process. >> we are going to get the american citizens out. but there is a large contingent left behind. i want to say thank you to all the guys on the ground taking matters of conscience and using their position and resources to get those types of people over the wall that the bureaucracy is going to leave behind. if you are over there keep doing it. if you ...

We know the united states wants to push to get the airport open again. likely qatar or turkey will help the taliban to do so. general mckenzie wanted to make clear the americans were specific when they left to destroy certain military equipment and not touch others. we saw the airport equipment and all you need to run an airport not touched to insure they can get the airport operating and get evacuees out. its a question where the evacuees will go. qatar took in about 30,000 afghan refugees here...

Strategically we need to think about what are our over-the-horizon capabilities, long range insertion of power, cia clan den stein operations, coming in from a variety of ways. we need to think through those options because i think there is trouble ahead in afghanistan, unfortunately. >> elise, you worked in afghanistan you know the country well, you know people inside the country now. after yesterdays horrific attack, what does it mean for the afghan people on september 1st once the american tr...

>> as thousands more flee afghanistan each day, theres been a continued scrutiny over the hobbled evacuation of afghan citizens who have helped the u.s. military in the last 20 years, who should have protection under a special visa process. according to one former trump white house official, theres something about the story were missing. and this goes back to the trump administration and its former immigration adviser, stephen miller. olivia troye is here to tell us what she knows, ahead. with t...