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0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we're working to evacuate remaining staff and we've been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before...

0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we're actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. a...

Some of the enablers that we talked about yesterday, designated to support the special immigrant visa processing in the region. that has also begun. these are primarily medical personnel. i think i told you yesterday, it's a mix, medical personnel, some military police, some electrical engineers, that kind of thing. they are preparing to go. i do not have an indication today that they have actually left. and again, they are not going into afghanistan. they are originally going to be sent into the region for further use as needed to support the siv process. as far as aircraft are concerned, to ...

And we'll have your backs. if they look back at afghanistan and see we abandoned our allies, that's going to impact our national security, our ability to find allies in the future for decades to come. >> well, they can look back to vietnam in 1975. >> but we got 130,000 refugees out of vietnam. >> okay. >> we probably should have gotten more. but we've done this in the past. that's one of the reasons why we've laid out a clear plan to go to guam to do this. we know how this works. we know we can do it. you talked about numbers. we're probably talking about 70,000 if you include their family me...