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The proposal or did it actually add any additional resources or capabilities to those that state already had. it was a bureaucratic movement not reciting or getting rid of capabilities just a new organizational chart. that created danger to the department's operation. is that a fair statement? >> that's a fair statement. >> it is not the ccr, what is the answer? >> here again to your point, with regard to the ccr, whether it became a bureau or not, there was no change in the assets that we already had at hand to work on these efforts and the focus of this group either in its existing organizat...

These new u.s. government-led efforts how, how coordination with outside groups and individuals being handled by who, what is the nature of the state d.o.d. cooperation, give us a sense of that. >> sure. we have within the department led by our former ambassador to afghanistan john bass who went back to kabul to the airport to help lead the evacuation efforts. he is leading an effort to manage, coordinate all of the ongoing efforts to bring people who wish to leave afghanistan out and that includes among other things a coordination with the many outside groups as well as members of congress wh...

But the point is, we have a very lengthy process, 14 steps, multiple agencies involved. we work to try to streamline that. more work we would like to do moving forward but we did significantly surge our resources to that, particularly to the chief admission and approval process and ultimately we went from 10 to 50 to 61 or 62 now working on that stage of things. doubled the resource evers we had in kabul all in an effort to ex -- expedite. and we did. what was not anticipated was the collapse in 11 days of the afghan government and the afghan military. >> let me ask you this. numerous press re...

Dulles center where 45,000 afghans have been processed after arriving in the united states. it is remarkable to see what our diplomats, military, employees from many civilian agencies across the u.s. government have been able to achieve in a very short time. they've met an enormous human need and coordinated food, water, sanitation for thousands of people. they are arranging medical care including the delivery of babies. they are reuniting families that were separated, caring for unaccompanied minors. some extraordinary interagency effort. powerful testament to the skill, dedication and humani...

Precluded traveling last week. we will continue to help americans and afghans to whom we have a special commitment depart afghanistan if they choose just as we've done in other countries where we've evacuated our embassy and hundreds or even thousands of americans remained behind. in libya, syria, venezuela, yemen, somalia. there is no deadline to this effort. third, we're focused on counter terrorism. taliban committed they will not let terrorist groups including al qaeda and isis-k. we'll hold them accountable for that. that does not mean we'll rely on them. we'll maintain a vigilant effort ...