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Refugees. mark, i know that you have a lot of contacts on the ground. what are you hearing about safety and security and the ability to get out right now? >> well, chuck, there is no safety and security, and there no ability to get out right now. even for the people who are u.s. citizens or the people who have special immigrant visa holders and let alone the vulnerable people, and the activists, and the religious minorities and the media and the ngos, they cannot get out right now. >> there is 250,000 afghans and some afghan-americans who can get out now, but they can't bring their a families ...

0 >> karen greenburg, thanks so much. that does it for this edition. chuck todd is up next with "mtp daily" only on msnbc. well, don't worry, andrea, you're not going very far. we're coming back to you in a moment. welcome back to "mtp daily." a pair of explosions rocked kabul, have tloefr the u.s. evacuation efforts into turmoil, just five days before president biden's agreed to deadline to get americans out. u.s. officials tell nbc news at least three marines were wounded in the attack outside the airport. hospital officials are treating about 60 people injured and at least six killed. pen...

Did a good job trying to lay out why this is so difficult to get the number on the ground. but they've also constrained their measure of success to american citizens and sivs. i don't know what they mean by vulnerable afghans because there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerable afghans. but i think it's just indicative of how difficult it is to get a number on how many american citizens and others either are in the siv process, american citizens that may be permanent residents of the united states, but that came from afghanistan and want to be with family. so, in that regard, i think secretar...

Housed. >> these are people that have been cleared by or gone through irc or the other agency you mentioned and they have done processing and things like that? >> yeah, that's their expertise. we're not the ones screening the refugee families. those organizations that have been around for obviously a very long time are doing the screening. they matched us and we work on the host side. >> and are you doing this in countries around the world? >> all countries around the world that will receive refugees. so obviously, united states here but we're in 220 countries and regions and so i expect us to...

Refugee families. those organizations that have been around for obviously a very long time are doing the screening. they matched us and we work on the host side. >> and are you doing this in countries around the world? >> all countries around the world that will receive refugees. so obviously, united states here but we're in 220 countries and regions and so i expect us to be able to -- our hosts to be able to receive refugees and refugee families in countries all over the world. >> there are those who might be concerned that the evacuation process has been rushed and some of these refugees may...