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Story of bureaucratic failure. we've been asking for months how to just get these applications accelerated so people can start leaving the country as they do through any embassy in the world in an orderly process. it wasn't until very late in the game the state gave us an e-mail address. it crashed a few hours after they gave it to us. one thing we discovered in kabul is that one of the biggest burdens on our troops were the thousands of requests coming in from members of congress and members of the administration that were not organized or prioritized or anything else. so again, we'll have ti...

Only met as part of this process. we're doing it because it has to be done because the mission is not over until our american citizens and their families and our allies have been brought back. >> one quick follow and then to colonel wilson. so sarah is in a safe place. is she on her way out of the country? did she get to bring any of the people with her? >> so, chris, we hope to have her on her way out of the country in the next couple days. you know, we would not have been able to do this without some of these great organizations like allied extract.org run by another combat veteran of afghan...

As fast as possible. now they embarked on the diplomatic version of this. how do you get people like mohammed who we just heard from, try to get them to safety? but this is not easy. and the fact is he made a commitment and in the end u.s. forces were gone before that commitment was fulfilled. look, i think what we're about to enter into is a process in which part of this is going to be political, we know that. his critics of course will be saying over and over again that he failed in this initiative. and there will be others who are saying look, if we're going to have a substantive debate abo...

Going on for years and years and years. we've been doing stories about this. and it happened in iraq as well. >> it is true. i know of cases in iraq specific lipp of people who had been waiting essentially to get what they think the united states owes them. i think this is one of the glaring questions that we now face in this kind of after-action part of the process. to say why is it, what are the bureaucratic, the functional impediments? we're the united states of america. if we're going to i can ma the moral commitment to people, if we expect to occupy a position of any moral prestige in the...

Representing american interests if there is an american trapped there or other issue. we've done that in other places. we don't have that arrangement yet presumably the qataris, closest to acstand, we have diplomats in islamabad but it's very difficult. for those left behind the afghans the americans we know who they are, we've been in touch with them particularly people who have family connections and reluctant to leave according to the state department. thousands of afghans in the siv process, couldn't get to the airport or the gate f they were in kabul or people who never got approved, peop...