organizations, everyone else, to get them out starting august 1st in mass numbers, because they believed that whenever the taliban was going to come, even if it was going to be in september some time, the situation was growing dire by the day and they needed to move a lot faster, and the state department obviously did not do that. though they say they started to review those applications around that time. >> heather, you covered the hill. a lot of democratic lawmakers, typically allies of this president, have questioned about how this drawdown has been executed. we were saying some of them could be testifying this week. what are you hearing from democrats about what they want to know, republicans as well, of course, will have questions, too. >> i think there say lot of criticism coming from the dem democratic side, which is pretty rare, right? who criticizes the leader of their party in the white house? usually they try not to. this week, the house will be back. they have the first classified briefing on this. which is really important. they've had unclassified brief i ings. they're private but things leak. the secretary of defense said there that americans were beaten by the taliban.