translators. we are doubling down on efforts to get them out if they want to leave and, also, other afghans at risk who may not qualify for these so-called special immigrant visas the folks who worked directly for us qualify for, to do everything we possibly can for as long as we can, to get them out if that is what they want. >> why now? why are you just doing that now? on this show we've been talking for months about the need to 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