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Large amount of money. it s just a fact of life, ask any journalist who spent time there. you have to break your way through checkpoints. it s just the way things work. knowing this, major schueman sent money to zak to help facilitate his travels in the country so that they could get to kabul, so they could get to the airport to try something. even major schueman s mom trying to help she s a retired police officer and a force in her own right by all accounts, she wrote to both president biden and vice president harris to try to get help from the very top. the senior senator from illinois, dick durbin brought zach s case personally to the attention of secretary of state anthony blinken at a senate hearing. told him the story of second major schueman at an open hearing asking for the secretary of state s help, secretary of state said he would look into it. but zak story has become one in ....
Out to be surrounded by the taliban, call the marine that is near the checkpoint, or could maybe get to the checkpoint, get a picture of zacks exact location. keep texting that officer stop returning your messages. look at the ramp number in kabul. from your kitchen table in rhode island. this is how veterans back home are trying to get their interpreters out. this is not how it was supposed to go, right? this is not the might of the u.s. government. this is not the promise that we made to zach. this is not how are supposed to bring them home. because the hop the next flight, out the window is closing, getting the strong means that these people will get killed. so, you keep doing whatever you can. so today back alley, major chairman started this text chain with zach and with an air force major u.s. air force major, major human again try to play the middleman, here try to remotely put them together from ....
Now, please, president, it s your time to help us, and take us out of this crisis. zak, working as an afghan interpreter for u.s. forces in afghanistan, his friend major thomas schueman, both of them here on this show together two weeks ago today. now, what s happened in two weeks, beside afghanistan falling in its entirety to the taliban s. back home and rhode island, major thomas schueman has been in repeated contact with zak in afghanistan, trying to do for zak what zak was asking of president biden, take him out of this crisis, help him flee the country. major schueman had helped zak with his visa application, he made phone calls, send zak money so he can try to get his family from where they were living and where they were than in hiding to kabul, you have to bribe your way through checkpoints in afghanistan, sometimes with a ....
And his family did go into hiding, the province where they were living in was taken over by the taliban. their hope was to somehow, miraculously, almost impossibly try to get themselves from that outline province where they were living to kabul, and then once in kabul to get to the airport to try to iron out this long-standing, years long, snagging his visa and then, to see if he and his family could get on one of the last flight out. as the u.s. continues its chaotic exodus out of afghanistan. now if any of the sounds familiar to you, it may be because zak and major thomas schueman actually spoke to us here a few weeks ago with my colleague ali velshi and you may remember that interview. zak undoubtedly went above and beyond his duties as an ....