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For women and many will attack the united states. they left afghanistan in total disarray and created a humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees and displaced afghans in need of immediate emergency assistance. secretary blinken, you characterize the evacuation as an extraordinary effort. you've touted over 124,000 evacuees but we have abandon the the people. theying with plague the by a lack of basic planning and ignoring repeated congressional offers to help, and a failure to recognize the taliban for what it is. a terrorist organization. the numbers are telling. you evacuated 6,040 ame...

Evacuate american citizens and allies left behind in afghanistan. can you tell us exactly what the new u.s. government-led efforts are and coordination with outside groups and individuals being handled, by who, what is the nature of the d.o.d./state cooperation? give us a sense of that. >> we have within the department led to john bass who went back to lead the he vac efforts in kabul. is leading an effort to manage and coordinate all the ongoing efforts to bring people who wish to leave afghanistan out. that includes among other things coordination with the many outside groups as well as memb...

Effort, an isis-k attack killed 13 service members working the gates at hkai. our service members gave their lives so that others could continue to live theirs. in the end, we completed one of the biggest airlifts in history. with 124,000 people vaccevacuato safety and on august 31st in kabul, the military in afghanistan officially ended and a new diplomatic mission began. i want to acknowledge the more than two dozen countries that have helped with the relocation effort. some serving as transit hubs, some welcoming refugees for longer periods of time. and as the 9/11 report suggested, it is e...

Train, and one that was in train was the establishment of operationallys refugee, we received cable on july 13th and that operation was put into force on july 14th, it had already been planned for sometime. and this was an if effort to expedite the identification and relocation of sivs, actually putting them on planes which is not part of the program. actually relocating them and working to establish transit sites so they would put them there while we finish processing them. >> that is the problem with us not having access to the cable. we were told it was significantly different than what you...

Begin to plan for a worse case scenario contingency. >> in the spring and summer. >> in the spring and summer of this year. >> yes. multiple inner agencies and exercises looking at different contingencies. >> and what was the specific plans put into the likely scenario that american citizens were going to have to evacuate on hostile conditions? >> well, planning went to a number of things including the ability to move our embassy quickly. as we did in 48 hours. including the effort to make sure that we could control the airport, bring flights in, and evacuate people out. one of the things that...