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Is there current legal authority to allow for that many individuals invented by the same geniuses who carried out this withdrawal to come to the united states? >> categorically there is not which is why my organization has put forward an oversight request to the administration to document that. the reality is the people president biden has evacuated from afghanistan were evacuated at random. my government sources have been very clear about this. day do not qualify for in most cases lawful visas for the united states of america nor are they going to go through the lawful refugee process so the ...

By the same geniuses who carried out this withdraw, to come to the united states? >> categorically there is not, which is why my orange and black, america first legal put forward an oversight request to the administration a document request. the reality is the people joe biden has evacuated from afghanistan were evacuated at random. my government sources have been very clear about this point. they do not qualify for, in most cases, lawful visas for the united states of america, nor are they going to go through the lawful refugee process. so, in other words, the lawful pathways are not being us...

Subpoenas. what is the likelihood of that happening? >> democrats i have spoke with on the hill are incredibly frustrated by what they see as blanket stonewalling by the administration when it comes to oversight request and congressional inquiries. you are going to see them start to take steps to increase pressure on the white house, whether that's putting more witnesses in contempt, that are refusing to appear before congress, or also just seeking further documents. but one of the things they will i think focus on in the coming weeks is continuing to sort of put the spotlight on the lack of c...

Function. >> natasha? >> look, i mean, i'll defer to the lawyer obviously but i think that it's obviously fair to say that this is a very legitimate oversight request. the extent and breadth of the request is something that needs to be hammered out between the committee and the white house. it looks like at this point they're willing to have the conversations. i mean, i know the white house counsel did say he did not really received much feedback from elijah cummings, the chairman, and he felt like it was all one sided, but i think at this point rather than a subpoena fight, which we definitel...

It. here is kind of what is happening here, the white house council office, i'm told, is they have a legitimate oversight request and they say they will look through it and go line by line reserting the right for executive privilege, but a source says the list of 81 names and entities, there are more names to come. we also learned that the relevant chairman of the house intel, house foreign affairs, separately say they want the translator that's were involved in meetings between president trump and vladimir putin. so they will be busy with that too. white house officials that i talked to say t...