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Under the eu's on arrangements, so that would be to transfer them to eu countries, it doesn't have that now after brexit and has not been able to negotiate new return agreements with eu countries since then, so in the past, so this year only five people we understand have been returned back to eu countries. which leads you to the different sort of solution, which refugee groups and people are pushing, which is to say the government should look at the opening safe and legal rights, means where people could apply for asylum and apply for family reunification, often people coming to join families...

This for weeks, and this started with the president talking to erdogan, turkey's president in brussels when we were there for the nato meetings. there was no commitment then. now they say they have that commitment. the airport is a mess, and we destroyed a lot of equipment. we left a lot of 73, i think they said, broken aircraft, making them unusable. that's what general mckenzie said and listing all those assets that we left and made incapable of flying again. they also took out all of the staff, all of the air traffic controllers, the airport workers, the mechanics, so there is no way that t...

Now they say they have that commitment. the airport is a mess, and we destroyed a lot of equipment. we left a lot of -- 73, i think they said, broken aircraft, that's what the general said, making them unusable. that's what general mckenzie said and listing all those assets that we left and made incapable of flying again. they also took out all of the staff, all of the air traffic controllers, the airport workers, the mechanics, so there is no way that that can be reopened without qatar and turkey putting people in. that is what they're relying on, and it's going to take a long time to get tha...

That is with the relying on. and it's going to take a long time to get the airport up to speed. they need those overland routes, but what we're learning tonight from the ngos. the veterans that we're talking to and the colleagues were talking to the refugee groups. they're telling people right now to shelter in place, because there's no evidence yet that the taliban are going to let people pass. people are being told to go to safe houses, many of which have been financed in the past by american aid groups. go to save houses, go to shelters. try to hide out, until we see what the taliban are go...

>> refugee groups told the biden white house in june that there were at least 100,000 afghans that had to be evacuated. they ignored that warning. there's going to be growing pressure. there are some groups calling for a safe haven to be created by the u.s. military at the airport or maybe north of there at bagram. international allies are criticizing the united states. just lastly on the this fear of afghans coming, they're all going to military bases abroad. the guam option, gerald ford removed 130,000 south vietnamese to guam. we could use guam. there are ways to do this that will help the ...