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We still don t have this answer. promise made by jen psaki, promise broken. she deflected and that s what that was. martha: it was interesting. she said are you saying pregnant women are threatening us? it was strange. your assessment is interesting. you know, the question of the treatment of people at this border we ll get into this more with senator graham in just a moment, but ken cuccinelli, this is maxine waters on her assistment of what she sees in terms of the treatment of the people that are crossing into texas illegally. watch this. what the hell are we doing here? what we witnessed takes us back hundreds of years. what we witnessed was worse than what we witnessed in slavery. martha: ken cuccinelli? that s hyperbole without basis. the fact of the matter is, they have invited what amounts to a third world camp on the border ....
And are they of like spirit or has that has that relationship been severed? the relationship has not been severed. and it is a very open question as to whether their views an the relationship has changed in any kind of definitive way. i think it is fair to say two things. one, whatever the taliban s views on al qaeda, they do know that the last time they harbored al qaeda and it engaged in an outwardly direct attack on our home homeland certain things followed which i believe they would have an interest in not seeing repeated. so to allow it engage in outwardly directed attacks and which the is assistment is they re not going to do. and isis k is a different thing ....
0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we ve talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the taliban was diminished after our military came in after the attack on our country. but instead we went into iraq, which was not engaged in the 9/11 activities and we never finished afghanistan. a mistake made by the bush administration. and we ve already talked about the trump administration and setting a deadline and releasing prisoners and moving forward with the reduction of troops. when there ....
Locations. i will tell you what we re seeing is of those that do arrive at dulles, about 40% or so have been coming to us and other status like having a green card where they can move on from dulles. my follow up is, can you give us an assistment of the security risks as well as the covid risks as you re doing and everyone is doing these screenings what security risks are you see something are you seeing a number of people showing up on lists and what about covid? how is that testing going and what are the threats at the bases for covid? thanks. so for security, i would defer to dhs who runs that operation. i m very comfortable, we worked to streamline that operation. as i said in my opening comments, we re doing biometric testing across the various ....
0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we re working to evacuate remaining staff and we ve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world quite simply could not function without locally-employed staff. we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. so before you came out here, your colleague at the white house punted an enormous number of questions to you. you can thank her for that later. some of which involved some of the numbers you just went through and she gave some as well. ....