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Gaslighting the country and telling people it was inevitable and the blame is bipartisan. the trump administration set us up to fail by agreeing with terrorists and by purposely blocking all of these people from getting here through the special immigration visa program for four years. that's why there were 88,000 wartime allies that we were tracking who needed evacuation as of february and as of literate literally last week and we failed to move them when we could have. andrea, here is what is profoundly tragic is the moral injury is shared everywhere. it's shared among afghans who feel betray...

We can't let that happen. if we leave these people behind, the taliban are going to kill them. >> and he said today that there is consideration, talk in the military about extending the august 31st deadline. he says that is not -- he hopes that that doesn't happen but you had said at the beginning that you were disappointed because you and others had been trying to convey to the white house what was going to happen, the inevitable. walk us through that. what were your conversations like and in what way were you ignored? >> so, last fall a lady named kim who is the co-founder of the association...

Immigration visa program. the siv program, right? which -- which brings to america those afghans who worked closely with us and might be vulnerable if the -- if the taliban rose to power. so -- so at a minimum, we spent those 14 months or -- or -- or more -- um -- sort of sitting on our hands. when we could've been making progress against the numbers that need to be evacuated today. >> that's right. >> so we lost a lot of time. >> that -- we had an anti-muslim and anti-non-white immigrant administration that freed 5,000 taliban prisoners but refused to shorten the process to bring any afghan i...

Them. you can see in the pictures and stuff that the people are there waiting in lines. so it's kind of difficult right now to just even talk to somebody at the gate. >> difficult and dangerous, to boot. do they feel betrayed by the americans? >> this is something that -- the siv, the special immigration visa program, we, the interpreters, woed with u.s. troops for 11 years, ten years. we are wearing the same thing like the soldiers are. a lot of the soldiers and veterans right now are going through the same mental health issues that we are going through because we are under pressure and they ...

Ask you, if you were in the president's ear, perhaps you are, what would you suggest that he do today? >> first and foremost, exactly what they are doing. right? the white house team, the d.o.j. team, state department team is focused on the immediate task, which is bringing to safety all the americans who are in and around kabul. just behind them should be as many of the afghans who worked closely with us over these decades. bring them out as well. set aside the bureaucracy of the special immigration visa program. get the afghans the safety, and then we can sort out the paperwork. i think the ...