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At one point that the u.s. is conducting security screening of afghan refugees who are evacuated to u.s. military bases overseas out of afghanistan before they come to the u.s. he made that point pretty clear at one point. and he also, i think, made a point of saying that his heart achesimages you're seeing. some said maybe the president wasn't compassionate about the scenes we're seeing unfold at the airport. the president seemed to address that by making that comment. but let me get to our reporters and analysts on this. back with me, arlette saenz, peter bergen and sam kiley on the phone fr...

Targeted 200 passengers probably part of a 200 afghans who qualify for special immigrant visas. another group of about 4000 afghanistan those are to go to third countries to complete their recent work to being settled in the united states. over 20,000 afghans have applied for special visas, many can't come to the u.s. yet because they haven't issued the paperwork process or completed their security screening. advocates are calling for the biden administration to bring them here regardless. another concern is what to do with the afghans who did not qualify for those special visas. on this for, ...

Or someone or a cousin who is an al qaeda affiliate and that isn't picked up in the security screening, that's a concern, and the second i think is about afghanistan itself. afghanistan is not over endowed with an educated professional class, and if you remove all these interpreters, the educated, the english speakers, the western sympathizers from the country, that doesn't leave much human capital for afghanistan to try to build a new society with. now, that said, if the taliban kills all of them there's no point in leaving them there. there san interesting balance of just how urgent is the r...

Repay that service. if you look -- i mean, at the fall of saigon, americans weren't clamoring to open our doors to vietnamese, but president ford looked at the american people and he said, we have to help these people. to do less would add moral shame to humiliation, and in a few months, our military air lifted 130,000 vietnamese out. they used guam. they kept the american public safe while the security screening was happening and we did the right thing eventually. this should -- >> and we know that this administration is also considering sending some of these afghan citizens to -- afghans to ...

6,000 officers to staff the nation's airports. on competent reporting that tsa is prepared and well positioned to help ensure that everyone who wishes to travel will do so safely and securely. >> now the tsa volunteers are not doing the actual security screening. more so helping out with the peripheral duties like moving the plastic bins and keeping lines flowing. remember, there are real risks to transportation security workers. you know, just the other day cruise ship passengers on a cruise ship in italy tested positive for covid-19 and they're required to be tested before, during, after the...