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Lawyers and journalists and entrepreneurs and built a life that secretary alalbright encouraged them to do so many years ago. during the obama administration i traveled to kabul. i met with women and girls in both cities and saw the amazing things they had accomplished. their talent and the drive. the society they were working hard to build. i met with afghan women leaders in my time as deputy secretary of state to hear from them. these ambitions and their dreams and the progress they made for themselves and their country are things i carry with me every day. the united states and our allies a...

With the taliban to make clear we expect them to allow all american citizens, all third country nationals and all afghans who wish to leave to do so safely and without harassment. a majority of the world's nations this morning, 109 governments and counting, have come together to underscore the same message. the state department is pursuing diplomat efforts with allies and partners in every region of the world to mobilize resources to save afghan lives. sect blinken spoke to more than a dozen counter parts. i have been doing the same. this morning under the secretary state we convened the polit...

Afghanistan. that obviously leaves more questions than answers. is the exiled president of afghanistan. he fled the country. jacqui heinrich, we are left with more questions than answers. do we know if president biden will address afghanistan a short time from now? >> we don't know whether we will address afghanistan or whether he will take any questions from reporters. the president hasn't taken any questions on that topic since the country fell to the taliban. what we just heard from the state department doesn't track with jake sullivan about the u.s. relationship with ghani. the president a...

He invited blinken and austin to testify at a hearing as early as next week. no date or time yet. your reaction? democrats have been calling for this. for a hearing to dig into the decision that president biden made that led to this the situation playing out now. >> unless the speaker makes this a bipartisan committee, it's worthless to me. just a bunch of democrats and i know congress meeks right here from new york. if it's just democrats throwing softballs. unless there is real anger and informed probing, what happened? who knew what? how did you go to camp david when this is going down? whe...