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Highlight now is senator richard blumenthal. is he beside himself as the member of the senate armed services committee. when they talked about well we don't know who is on those private flights therefore we can't allow them toe land on american air base. they don't trust these retired veterans, special operators, that's a problem. they show you the passports, they answer your questions. you still don't like it, that's a problem. you can't put them in an airport and have someone board it. that's be a pro. we saw the cargo jets with hundred people on it do you think they were patted down? do you...

Orderly way and be that liaison network and that is what we want to do going forward for the long haul and i think we can. >> and you believe the taliban wouldn't block you from doing that. >> i think the taliban are going to do what they do. they are going to hunt and try to walk down people that they deem a threat to their regime. but i also know that retired special forces and other special operators have a lot of skill and in helping people move around. and we don't intend to rely on the taliban to keep people out of harm's way. we're going to continue to do that the way that we have. and ...

To join them. let me recognize the extraordinary heroism and service of our paratroopers, marines, special operators who just completed an incredibly difficult mission under incredibly difficult circumstances, they do not complete the mission, the decision to pull them out before the mission was completed, getting all americans, green card holders and all the tens of thousands of afghans who helped us. we have to honor the promise to get them to safety. i am humbled to be associated with task force pineapple, but the credit goes to some extraordinary former special operators, like scott man, g...

General mckenzie says by the way i don't know this who this guy is he couldn't be left impressive from what i have seen. general mckenzie said we were hoping, i will give you the quote. we were not able to bring back any americans. that activity ended probably 12 hours before our exit although we continue the outreach would have been prepared to bring them until the very last minute but none of them made it to the airport. i wonder why? you locked the gates. they have been trying to get there for days. you have one story after another of them getting to the gate, putting up with the hail of gu...

Embassy. said the goal was to save embassy. stacked tables at airport. that airport costs lives of 140 afghans after one explosion. 13 marines. 20 struggling for anywhere lives in germany. get this. there is no system for our men and women to escape whether they are allied or american university or they are actually americans. there is no way to get an american as we said originally two weeks ago outside of kabul out of the country. the people that are helping most are the ones that served already, a group of special operators. veterans. some reporters in a third country working individually, ...