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State department had gone radio silent. they weren't receiving messages back. that is absolutely unacceptable. if they need additional people working at the state department they darn well better get them on board now so we can process all of these requests. >> harris: with about a minute left in show pete hegseth is here and has a question and we have to be short. >> thank you. as it pertains to august 3 1*, the line in the sand the taliban has drawn. are we playing on their terms with that date? >> absolutely. it is unacceptable. going back to a very weak administration. president joe biden ...

Steve: that is a doubling basically from the guy who wants everybody out by august 3. >> that will not happen. steve: exactly thank you for helping us it's great you could join us. could join us. thank

Five years from now, it wouldn't be clean. it would be brutal as we're witnessing now. i think what is important for us and what i would advice the president is we need to complete the mission by filling our commitment to protecting those who helped us. that's going to be very tough by august 3 1st. >> and just hope you're able to hear from my colleague kaitlan collins that president biden is getting some pressure internally to not ex entend the deadline p the end of the month because of the fragile security situation on the ground, because concerns are great and growing. do you think given th...

0 require constant coordination and deconfliction with the taliban. it is absolutely requiring us to keep these lines of communication with the taliban open that have checkpoints beyond the airport. we have seen this coordination has worked well in terms of allowing access and flow to continue. one of our commanders used helicopters to bring people in because of the crowd size. crowd size matters, too, and that's what the president was referring to. >> i have two questions. i would like to go back to the incident. can you be a little more specific and tell us if you can rule out the attackers ...

The El Paso community is invited to attend Antonio Basco's memorial and funeral services on Friday, August 27, 2021.