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Background. dhs is paroleing them in. they aren't passing the background checks and they have to skirt around the issue. that's the concern that many republican senators like yourself have. are we going to get answers from the white house? jen psaki says we'll properly vet them. how do you do that with the large number of afghan refugees we're talking about here? >> exactly. we were told that by the administration that everyone before they set foot onto american soil would be vetted. i know there are parolees coming in. the once that have large in part passed the vetting process but may not ha...

No one left behind? it was an outright lie. >> right. well, i believe that individual like many others are stuck in that special immigrant visa processing. the d.o.d. inspector general a couple of years ago talked about the extreme processing times and some of the issues that they were having with that program and so the biden administration knew this as they were withdrawing and putting individuals into the visa processing, they knew they weren't going to get everyone out. very troubling that they relied on an siv program that takes 18 to 24 months to vet individuals properly now bringing fol...

Do it the right way. and, so, we'll do that in the days ahead. >> do you think that -- oh, sorry. >> i was just going to say, i will just say again, helene, i'm enormously proud of our men and women who worked hard to accomplish what they just accomplished which i think, as i said earlier, is historic and heroic. go ahead. >> do you wish maybe you would have thrown out the book, i mean, the previous administration did leave, i understand, did put a lot of hurdles in the way of the siv program that this administration had to then deal with upon arrival. do you think at all that because the pent...

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...

Hello and welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. topping our world lead this hour, president biden grappling with the fallout from the way the u.s. withdrew from afghanistan. a senior state department official telling cnn that the majority of afghans who worked for the u.s. and applied for those special immigrant visas or sivs, well, they were likely left behind. pentagon officials saying that the siv program was never meant to be used in a hurried evacuation. >> the siv program is obviously not designed to accommodate what we just did in evacuating over 100,000 people. and so perhaps this pr...