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Through september 11th, and then backed it up to july. they also will be blaming it not only around trump administration, but also to congress around that siv program to give thousands of interprets and those who worked for the government to give them some protected access to the united states, and over 17,000 backlogged applications when the trump administration left office, and also pointing to the militar apparatus. and it also said that within six months of the withdrawal of the troops the afghan government could fall. that is a grave assessment, and it happened within days that the civili...

We anticipated including in the intelligence community and there are a number of other statements of that kind that i can share with you. with regard to the so-called dissent channel cable is something i'm immensely proud of, a tradition we have and, you're right, i read every such cable. i respond to it. i factor it into my own thinking and actions. and that cable did not predict the collapse of the government or security forces before our departure. it was very focused and rightly focused on the work we were doing to try to get afghans at risk out of the country and pressing to speed up that...

As the task force to help those in the siv program get out and to relocate them, which is not part of the program. that was a very important cable. i'm grateful for it and grateful we have a process at the state department that people with clearly express their views and differences on policy or recommendations on policy. that is usually important. >> gentleman's time has expired. i recognize bill keating from massachusetts for five minutes. >> thanks, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. secretary for your service and as head of the department of state for our country, i want to thank all of your peo...

0 legitimizing them as a real government? >> not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, you're correct. there are flights that have been there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the f...

Afghanistan. as an adviser to the trump campaign, did you advise them or the president on the moral injury of basically scrapping the siv program that contributed to the difficulties that we've seen in evacuating afghan allies? >> so that wasn't something that i worked on. it would be very hard for me to speak on. something i'm often an advocate for is mental health for all of our veterans across administrations and something i think is remarkably again bipartisan and nonpartisan ensuring the health and well being of our veterans, military and our military families are first and foremost in a ...