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>> colonel, the withdrawal deadline august 31st, it's only seven days away. would that be enough time for the military to complete the evacuation mission for american citizens, for american green card holders, for special immigrant visa applicants, and get troops and weapons out, one more week? >> well, jake, it would depend on how much cooperation they get from the taliban. in this case i would say that you can do everything except for the last part, the siv holders, the special immigrant visa holders and other folks that are in even lesser visa categories like the so-called p-1 and p-2 visa ...

The US Embassy in Lilongwe has temporarily closed all visa applicants but those needing the service on humanitarian appointment requests shall be accepted to be processed by the US Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia. A statement from the Embassy said the humanitarian appointment applicants shall be expected to cover the travel cost to Lusaka. Its further said the humanitarian cases may include an immediate relative’s death, grave illness, or life-threatening accident taking place in the United States or urgent medical treatment for the applicant or their minor child. US Ambassador to Malawi – Robe...

Would you agree? >> a couple of ideas here. one, let's make sure that we expand the capacity in our different visa categories. when we ask somebody to get to the back of the line right now, we may not realize that that line stretches 18, 20, 22 years. h1b visas are 85,000 positions in a country of 320 million. we're not able to fill all of those high skill, high wage jobs here in this country with people here. sometimes we need to attract those from other countries to be able to do that work. in other cases, it is people who are trying to join their family lawfully, waiting in that 20-year lin...

Situation if it were the only way to save ulysses and henry and molly. we're prosecuting them like common criminals and deporting them back to the countries from which they fled. let's not try to solve these problems of human misery at the border. >> what about stopping illegal immigration that has nothing to do with asylum, which is a real problem, you would agree? >> a couple of ideas here. one, let's make sure that we expand the capacity in our different visa categories. when we ask somebody to get to the back of the line right now, we may not realize that that line stretches 18, 20, 22 yea...

Lawfully, waiting in that 20-year line. so, revising those visa categories, working with folks from both sides of the aisle to do that. i mentioned freeing dreamers from any fear of deportation by making them u.s. citizens here and i also mentioned the legislation that john cornyn and i worked on to strengthen security at our ports of entry. that's where the vast majority of everyone and everything that comes into this country first crosses. it has to be comprehensive. if we try to do this piecemeal through fences and walls or this measure or that, i don't think we'll ever get there and that w...