Transcripts for CNN State of the Union with Jake Tapper and

Transcripts for CNN State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash 20210815 13:12:00

evacuate these thousands of afghan translators and others who helped u.s. service members during the war. president biden just named an ambassador, just a few days ago, to run an interagency task force on this. thousands of these folks are now trapped in their homes. they cannot even try to get to kabul. it is not safe. i know two lieutenants, veterans setting up gofundme to save their translators. why did president biden wait so long to set up the interagency task force? >> in fact the task force has been going for many many weeks now and ambassador jacobsen leading it has been in place for many, many weeks. and we have been working this from day one. we had to put in place an entire system to deal with this. unfortunately, none of that work was done when we came in. and we had to put that in place. as you know the refugee admissions process and support system was decimated in recent years. we've been working to rebuild that. it's taken time to get all of

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