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Vulnerable afghans. >> the president is committed to ensuring that every american who wants to leave afghanistan gets out of afghanistan. he believes that we can accomplish that by august 31st. griff: but there is one big problem. the pentagon admitting it really doesn't know how many americans are on the ground trying to get out. >> how many american citizens remain in afghanistan? >> i don't know. the state department would be a better place to go for an estimate of how many americans are in afghanistan. griff: in an internal state memo reported by the "wall street journal" and confirmed by ...

Here's some numbers from walker's eight years as milwaukee county executive. according to a state memo, only 5% out of hundreds of thousands of calls to the public assistance office were answered every month, a direct result of walker understaffing those offices. only 30% of benefit applications were processed within the required seven-daytime frame, making some families wait weeks or months for aid they urgently needed. nearly two-thirds of people who were denied food or health care benefits were approved upon appeal. and nearly one in five eligible applicants were cut off from the program en...