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How do you possibly vet all of those people in a timely fwhags it's clearly the -- the customs and border patrol and relevant officials must be completely overloaded. >> they are, and i will say this is a reflection of the fact that we have hundreds of employees, of our intelligence community working 24 hours a day to -- to do the vetting necessary and reviews necessary to move people into the united states. now, i would remind you that there are a number of people, tens of thousands of people who are departing afghanistan who are going to third countries, lily pads as we've been calling them ...

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...

0 >> it does not. >> lprs also been qucontacted? >> yep. >> what about siv applicants? can we get numbers? >> it's okay. >> since this whole thing began there's been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it's handled. there's been a lot of push back about the hand that you were dealt by the previous administration in terms of the deal with the taliban and terms of the siv program and the broader refugee program. you have been in office for almost eight months. it's been five months since the president's decision was made. is there anything about the shortcomings that have been so r...

0 these are known passport holders. >> okay. but have -- have lprs also been contacted? >> yes. >> and what about siv applicants, people who are -- we're in contact -- >> will we get -- >> i'm sorry. >> i don't expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began there's been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and there's been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you were dealt by the previous to deal with the taliban in terms of the siv program in terms of the...

Olivia troy joins me also director of the republican accountability project. olivia thanks for coming on this morning. for our viewers please elaborate your role in the special immigrant visa process for the previous administration and the exact road blocks you say you ran into. >> hi, nice to see you again. i served as former vice-president pence's homicide adviser and counterterrorism adviser. in that role because i was detailed from dhs i have significant understanding how the department works, now uscis works, the process for vetting works. i had worked on the executive orders that were is...