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Officials, since a catastrophic attack could occur with little or no notice. today there are nearly 80 state department nominees pending before the senate. nearly two dozen have already been voted out of this committee on a strong bipartisan basis. and simply await a vote in the senate. for our national security, i respectfully urge the senate and this committee to move as skbiftly as possible to consider and confirm all pending nominees and address the significant disruption in our national security policy makes. now let me briefly outline what the state department has done in the last couple...

We're in constant contact with american citizens still in afghanistan who have told us that they wish to leave. each has been assigned a case management team to offer specific guidance and instruction. some decliened to be on the firt flights for medical issues that precluded traveling last week. we'll continue to help them and we'll continue to help any american who still wants to leave and aftghans to whom we have a special commitment just as we've done in other countries where we've evacuated our embassy and hundreds or even thousands of americans remained behind. for example, in libya, in ...

Time of great fear, a time of concern for many aftghans and most will not fall within the categories that we have been talking about. american citizens, green card holders, sivs, p1s, p2s. the rise of the taliban will be of great concern to many afghans. our commitment to help those in need and that includes american citizens who for whatever reason decide to stay behind, to sivs not in a position to evacuate before august 31st. to others who fall within the

To coordinate with our partners in the government to get folks on the evacuation list and into the airport and while we have been successful in some cases but there are so many cases where they are turned away and we know the history won't judge us for how many people we get out of kabul but how many are left behind. >> the president said yesterday that getting everybody out can't be guaranteed. obviously many of the people you talk about are not necessarily people who -- i don't know. are all the people, you are talking about people in the visa process or worked for the united states or aftgh...

Getting out of that embassy just late last week. now, the state department says that those folks are not going to have a problem getting out of the country when they go to do so. they're not going to be prohibited from flying out. but you've got to imagine that it's pretty challenging for those aftghans who are worried right now. not only are they scared about getting to the airport, they don't have their passports in hand and it's really unclear when folks are going to the airport where they go. if they don't have a passport in hand, it's unclear if there's a u.s. consular officer who's clear...