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Days. nonetheless, we planned and exercised a wide range of contingencies. because of that, we were able to draw down within 48 hours and the military placed on stand by by president biden was able to secure the airport and start the evacuation within 72 hours. and yes, that evacuation was an extraordinary effort under the most difficult conditions imaginable. they worked around the clock to get american citizens, afghans who helped us, citizens of our allies and partners on planes out of the country. off to the united states or to transit locations that our diplomats had arranged or negotiate...

To move it forward and we decided to review it and we did the review and as you describe accurately, we found it would add no assets to what we already had at hand but create a different bureaucratic structure. having said that, this was something designed primarily for individual extractions, medical emergencies, these men and women who are part of our operational medical unit are remarkable and do incredible work. but not the kind of work that would have been applicable to the large evacuation that we had to conduct. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, i can tell you, i ...

Republicans calling on democrats to resign. calling them names. the question is what aspect of the withdrawal are they most upset about? i think that really wasn't clear yesterday. so from the critics today, i'd be focused about what are they focused in on. lastly, if they're focused in on the evacuation of afghan allies, i think we need a discussion about what we're going to do to resettle those refugees and how we're going to get more afghans out of the country and come here and have a stake here. again, another challenge, some who criticized the evacuation of afghan allies and refugees don'...

Our diplomats can do so much more than they did if only their political bosses had gotten out of the way. now we have on untold number of american, u.s. contractors and sivs still in afghanistan despite repeated assurances you will get them out. you've been unable to do so. planes are stranded in afghanistan. our voice of america employees and female afghan students on scholarships have been abandoned and our siv applicants are in hiding as taliban death squads hunt them down. you said you would have mechanisms after 31 august. where's your plan? i have not seen it. i don't know if i've talked...

Committee, senator shaheen and others, by may, we had reduced the average processing time by a year. even amid a covid surge in kabul, we continued to issue visas. 100 per week in march to more than 1000 per week in march when our relocation effort began. that march evacuation was sparked by the collapse of the afghan security forces and government. throughout the year, we were constantly assessing their staying power and considering multiple scenarios. even the most pessimistic assessments did not predict that the government forces in kabul would collapse while u.s. forces remained. they were...