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Sometime to increase pressure on the europeans to make it more dependent on russian energy. it's all linked with the production, with the implementation and the building of a new very controversial russian pipeline called north stream 2 which has already been built between russia and germany, bypassing some transit countries that would have benefited from that pipeline in the past like ukraine. critics say that will increase the energy dependence on russia. they say nonsense, it's just a business deal. they said if the pipeline is approved by european officials when the spigots are turned on, ...

Senator, a couple of things. we arranged as you know transit countries so any afghan coming out of afghanistan would initially go to a transit country where we could initiate the screening. the vetting and the back ground checks. we surged customs and border protection officials to those transit points as well as other security law enforcement agencies to do these checks with biometric, biographic, other information that we have. then, as people were cleared and these transit points, they then come into the united states. but they're not being re-settled immediately. once they land at dulles o...

0 so i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognized we needed to withdrawal the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we've talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. and one of those reasons was that we wanted to complete the mission in afghanistan when we had the chance to do it when the ...

Ngos. we need to do everything we can to make sure the people of afghanistan don't suffer anymore than is already the case. >> i would like to see us helping afghanistan with food and aid and we extract certain commitments from them before we just give them -- i want to commend the country of colombia. they are vetting them before they get here. is that accurate? >> there's a number of countries that have made the commitments that are serving as transit countries. we deeply appreciate the countries that have stood up and agreed to do that. >> thank you. i don't have anymore questions.

We need to do everything we can to make sure that people of afghanistan don't suffer any more than is already the case. >> are we going to help afghanistan with food and aid? we extract certain commitmentes from them before we just give them. >> food. >> done. >> i want to comment the country of colombia. i think they have taken thousands of afghanistans and they're vetting them before they get there. is that accurate? >> there are a number of countries around the world that have made those commitment that's are either serving as transit countries or serving as resettlement countries.