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US Department of Homeland Security is interested in accessing as much as possible of citizens' biometric data

We e-mailed them a list. they finally reached out in the last 24 hours. we knew for months where they were, we verified their service. by the way, richard is right. processing the visas is pointless. we have a biometrics database. we should be using it to verify their status. if they're in the database, it means they served with the united states. the taliban is using it as a hit list because they stole the data and the technology to use it. the reasons the afghans inside the airport is because the taliban have a check point outside at the front gate and they're identifying anyone who comes up...

That leaves thousands of translators and their families at risk of taliban retaliation. sources say the last scheduled flight for visa applicants bound for the u.s. has already left for now. just 1,200 are being evacuated to america. it's unclear how long that pause will last. major matt zeller is a truman project national security fellow. he joins me now, as you have many times before, matt. this is a scenario you and i have been talking about for months, years actually, that the efforts to get the translators out was disgracefully slow. here we are. what is your fear for those people now? >>...

Now? whether we're less safe because of the way the mission has turned out. before we pause, where does this leave us in terms of fighting terrorism? >> i can tell you immediately, the president of the united states, and i hope he's watching, somebody who works, you need to have the u.s. military seize the entire airport of kabul. you need to create some time of safe corridor that we can evacuate the people we currently have you can? kabul to the airport. meaning you have to get them or you have to make a deal with the ban to let them move safely. the taliban have erected check points and they...