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Administration was they took that forecast as gospel. they said, oh, our experts say the afghan government is going to survive for months, well then thats whats going to happen. they didnt do enough contingency planning. they didnt say to themselves, well, wait a second what are the chances the government is actually going to collapse in weeks or has happened, days, and whats our plan for that? and i think if theyd taken seriously the possibility the government would collapse in days, and they h...

Arrived in the united states. >> i provided details on americans yesterday. >> but a number of americans have arrived at military bases. do you have a specific number of people -- >> i confirmed yesterday that it was 4,000 americans have been evacuated. obviously that number increased. the secretary state gave an updated number this morning. ill remind you that the u.s. military is overseeing the evacuation of individuals out of afghanistan and the state department oversees the visa processing, ...

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...

Presenting a fiction also about the process. so people should understand the process. these are afghans who have applied through the department of defense program. they are then approved because someone in the department of defense says yes, they helped us. then it goes to the department of state for the visa processing. then theyre flown over. the department of homeland security has a rigorous immigration review. then they are sent to nonprofits and volunteers who will take them in and then tha...

Invaders, stoking fear. they have no shame. >> no. and actually the history that they relate is actually quite wrong. the integration of refugees in particular has been a great american success story. were actually quite good at it here in america. 50,000 afghan refugees in a nation of over 300 million is not even a drop in the bucket. but i think that they are presenting a fiction also about the process. so people should understand the process. these are afghans who have applied through the dep...

Much as a year from that point to move everybody out of the country. so that happened obviously much quicker than they expected. that was the cause of some of the chaos that we saw at the airport. the administration is adamant that they were working urgently to expedite visa processing and plans to get people out of the country. but as we have seen over the past few days and as we will continue to monitor, there are still thousands of people, americans and afghans, who are looking to get out of ...

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Best equipment if youre giving them support of u.s. forces for 20 years. speak out that challenge now is keeping kabul international airport open. the pentagon confirmed that we are preparing to send some 30,002 military bases, including fort mccoy where they will undergo visa processing. that is by the way a reversal of the previous plan to send applicants to third countries for vetting. this is what the president told me in july. >> why cant the u.s. evacuate these translators to await their v...

Military installations immediately including fort mccoy in wisconsin and fort bliss in texas. a reversal that refugees had to go to third countries to wait out their processing, unlike migrants at the southern border some were allowed to wait their cases in the u.s. the president told me this back in july. >> why cant the u.s. evacuate these afghan translators to the united states to await their visa processing as some immigrants at the southern border has been allowed to do? >> president biden:...

Get all of the people out of the embassy. they have flown 500 embassy people out on aircraft. they are looking up to 5,000 people per day. most embassy personnel are now at the airport. they lowered the american flag from what was the embassy compound and took it with them. let us begin with the latest on those 1,000 additional troops. courtney cubby has the latest. >> reporter: the u.s. military has 3,000 troops on the ground in kabul. their mission, the evacuation of the u.s. embassy and any a...