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We got a lot of people out, but it was the vast majority of the people that we made that promise to about the special immigrant visa, they are still left behind, still there, and it is becoming only increasingly challenging to get them out, and frankly it is only getting more dangerous for them. now it is not just the taliban that is searching for them, it is nature that is coming after them. there is a famine. they are going into incredibly harsh conditions and if the u.s. continues at the rate of processing special immigrant visa applications, it is going to take 18 years to get through that...

Junior person, to the most senior person, we were telling these people we have your back. we will stand beside you when your service is done, and it is time for you to take yourself and your family to the united states. we will be there for you, and it turns out that was a complete and total lie and that's getting at the root of the damage, of the moral injury that so many veterans are facing today. >> i'm sure this is another number that has been striking to me from your survey, your group estimates that 96% of the special immigrant visa applicants, afghans who served alongside u.s. forces th...

That's once they get here, though. what needs to be done now to address this 96%? this vast majority, by the way, i've been working to get a family out myself and running into the various brick walls one does, how can that be changed? >> the fastest way is for the president it take action. he can do this. there is something called the uniting for ukraine program that the president stood up, that the government is executing, that has gotten out 100,000 ukrainians from a war zone, we can do the same thing for afghanistan. we can get them out, and also take concrete steps to change the way we're ...

There are lessons here that we have to learn and we will learn even as our work continues to have ways to make the program run more efficiency and effectively, and one more note on the sivs. i want to thank the many veterans of the fwhar afghanistan who are working individually or through the veteran service organizations to help the afghans who helped them. the state department officials conferred with the veteran groups throughout the evacuation operation. i spoke with several of them along with denis mcdonough the secretary of veterans affairs who are using their voices -- we have been li...