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Live up to your potential. now they feel abandoned. finally i'd like to ask you about the local hires. we evacuated our embassy and there's been cables back that i know you must be familiar with, your team is, of people that feel completely betrayed. these are thousands of people that we rely on in embassies around the world. the message is going forward that we will not be loyal. they were not told about the evacuation. they were not put on the choppers with our american staff. they will force many of them to find their own way to the taliban checkpoints, then get turned away at the airport. ...

Strong self-interest in acting with responsibility going forward. but they will make their own determinations. >> thank you. the taliban right now focusing on the mission right now are not living up to their commitments. people are being stopped from trying to get to the airport, i'm talking about women, sivs, others, afghans, people with papers and being stopped outside the airport now. total bottle necks, which rise to the level of what the president said were a contingencies if the taliban is not complying, if the flow can't continue. we're loading planes and some planes are leaving -- some...

Me, martha. whenever i think about august 31, it scares me. i have no idea what will happen. now that the u.s. is there and other troops are already in afghanistan, in the airport, taliban are taking those actions against journalists and there were many, many others that said they're not coming to the press. it scares me. it scares everyone in afghanistan. i'm in contact with my fans, my family and we're all so worried. we have no idea what will happen after august 31. just thinking, looking back to the history that taliban had in afghanistan, we cannot trust them. their actions are unforgivea...

Because of past and current behavior. why should the united states care what the taliban want to be done at the airport or frankly anywhere else in the country since they are not in the u.s.' eyes a legally recognized government? >> thank you. our focus right now is on getting our citizens and getting other -- our partners, afghan partners third country partners working in afghanistan with us out of the country and to safety. for that purpose, first, the taliban, whether we like it or not is in control, largely in control of the country. certainly in control of the city of kabul. it's been imp...

People who are in these special immigrant visa process, so these are people who have worked for the state department or the military during these two decades. they are in the process but they haven't yet been approved and they may not be very far along in it. they seem tonight ones most vulnerable and have the most difficult time getting through, the taliban checkpoints getting into the gate at the airport and getting on the evacuation flights and there are potentially thousand of them and that doesn't even speak to the ones that ama is mentioning, the ones who may be at risk because what have...