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Quote, the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled calling for, quote, answers and accountability. the white house saying it does not have any direct response to members of congress. >> it is easy to throw stones or be a critic from the outside. it's harder to be in the arena and make difficult decisions. >> jessica dean joins us now from capitol hill. is it clear when mccarthy has in mind? because we should also point out it was president trump and mccarthy backed him on the deal with the taliban. >> right. and he was kind of pushed on that earlier today, anderson. and ...

If they wanted to keep with this august 31st deadline of a full withdrawal of u.s. military, they would have to start bringing people out several days in advance. as you know, alex, we're only a couple days from the august 31st deadline. we also learned more specifics about the evacuation process. the number of u.s. military aircraft that have gone out of afghanistan in the last 24 hours is pretty consistent with where it's been over the last several days. there were 32 u.s. military aircraft with about 4,000 passengers, another 34 coalition with about 2,800 passengers. while those numbers of ...

President trump did the deal with the taliban to pull out in may. but now that president biden is in place they think we should stay. >> reporter: but some more democrats are more critical. new jersey democratic senator bob menendez said in a statement the united states, quote, cannot trust the taliban with american security. pennsylvania representative susan wild writing in a tweet, quote, the evacuation process appears to have been egregiously mishandled, calling for, quote, answers and accountability. the white house saying it does not have any direct response to members of congress. >> it ...

They in kabul and are they able to actually get them to the airport safely and get them out on evacuation flights. despite the fact that there was this very deadly attack on thursday at kabul airport, evacuations continue. as you mentioned, more than 100,000 people, according to the u.s. government, have now been taken out on those evacuation flights. it's a combination of military and civilian charter aircraft. we're expecting to get an update on that evacuation mission here at the pentagon today. we're also waiting to hear more about the u.s. military presence there. there are somewhere in t...

Going to be fraught with stress and tension, and potentially danger. >> well, let's talk a little more about that evacuation process then. i know that you've said that the evacuation process has been egregiously mishandled at this point. you said that want to use your platform on the house foreign affairs committee to get to the bottom of what went wrong with this process. what questions do you have for the biden administration? and are you getting some of the answers you want? >> well, i haven't started to ask the questions yet because the administration and all of the military brass that wil...