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the u.n. estimates more than half of the population needs some form of humanitarian assistance. the world banks say they're at the lowest level in a decade and after promising to respect women's rights, the taliban have banned most girls from going to school past sixth grade. >> even in the past, there were restrictions and violence but there was hope. we had school. we could have knowledge. now they lost their only hope, which is education. >> this a somber reminder of how desperate people were a year ago to get out of afghanistan anticipating a taliban takeover. you can see them th...

Paperwork issues. under what circumstances are afghans with valid i have is as that are admitted ultimately es cored off of the grounds. >> i will tell you a couple things. i recognize that from process is perfect. and that there are hiccups and problems. we certainly recognize that. let me just take a couple steps back and tell you how this is working. we have consulate officers.

Prosecute him. >> we know there was no protest. the f.b.i. interviewed the consulate officers and they say there is no protest. >> that is when they began. the early days, even president obama, the first three days is talking about a terrorist attack. >> then all of a sudden after three days they start talk about the video. are we supposed to believe that suddenly new information came in saying the protest in benghazi was spurred by anger at the video? i don't believe that for a minute. >> bret: my point is when the president says, chuck, that everything we had we put out as we got it, just to...

Department is permitting families of those working at the consulate to leave, you know, ordinarily, in a terrorism situation, like when we had an explosion in saudi arabia, what we did was, we demanded that the families leave. the -- those became unaccompanied posts for a period of time until the security situation got better. i'll tell you, that seems to me where this is going. you can't have consulate officers and their families and their employees be the targets. and so you're going to have to reduce the target set for the bad guys until you can get the security situation under control. >> ...

Americans living in the area and 1300 most affected according to ubs ambassador and because of the time difference, it's evening there and the ambassador says the american embassy is working to send consulate officers to the area tonight to high pressure the americans there and defense secretary robert gates affirmed that during a flight back to the united states last night. >> i did talk to the ambassador in japan. our ambassador to japan called me this morning and we talked about what we are able to do and i told him that we would do whatever was asked of us by the japanese or what-- whateve...