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To leave. we have assigned case management teams to each remaining american citizen who has expressed an interest in leaving. there are a lot of extremely complex logistical issues to address and coordinate. we're working through them as quickly and methodically as we possibly can. today secretary of state anthony blinken is traveling to qatar where many evacuees fled after the taliban's rapid takeover of afghanistan. roughly 124,000 people were successfully evacuated including 6,000 americans, but up to 200 americans are still in afghanistan. on thursday, 26 republican senators sent a lette...

Most of the interpreters and others who worked with u.s. forces. we don't have a good grasp, jonathan, but fact checkers suggest perhaps 63,000 afghans were evacuated and the estimates are there were more than 200,000 afghans and their families eligible for immigrant visas. we left a lot of people behind. this is a moral stain on the united states. and i have very little confidence that we will be able to get those people out now because the taliban themselves have said that they don't want to have this brain drain. they don't want to lose people and so forth. and at the moment, there is not e...

Post" columnist at the council on foreign relations. thank you both very much for coming to "the sunday show." anna, since you're the newbie here, i'm going to start with you and ask you, why is secretary blinken going to qatar? why is this trip so important? >> thanks for having me, jonathan. good to be here the first time. qatar is a key player in all of this, has been at least a year and a half. remember, qatar is where the negotiations between the u.s. and taliban to negotiate with the u.s. had all unfolded following the u.s. invasion of afghanistan. qatar has been a key player here and wi...