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Developing at this hour, a fight over who is to blame for the failure to evacuate more afghans before the u.s. withdrawal. we saw that crush of people trying to leave, of course, there for days before the taliban fully took control. republicans are blaming and have been blaming the biden administration for this, but it didn't start with them. priscilla alvarez is joining me with this new reporting. you have a really interesting detail on this. new detail on the role trump advisor stephen miller played in how they handled the special visa immigrant program. >> reporter: we spoke to multiple for...

Our mission completely depended on the afghans who taught us culture and who translated for us. and they are telling us that we are in hiding, we are going to be killed, we are being hunted door-to-door and having to move locations. they are moving, many of them moving out of kabul to get out of, you know, what feels like just a rash of door-to-door searches, and only the find that they don't feel safer in other places where they have gone. and there's no coherent plan to get any of these folks out by even contracted airlift or any of the airlift that has been offered to take people out of air...

Congressional republicans the reports have proliferated on social media. there's no better person to talk to than our good friend former republican strategist steve schmidt. hi there, my friend. how are you doing? >> good to see you, nicolle. >> what do you make of the audacity, i guess is the right word, of republicans to criticize this president for ending a war the ex-president tried to end and wasn't able to and then trotting out all this disinformation from their disinformation tool kit? >> well, donald trump, in effect, nicolle, did end the war in afghanistan by precluding really any opt...

We are not abandoning you, we, the allies you worked with, the veterans who served side by side with you. we wore the same uniform. we shared meals. we worked together. you all enabled us to do our mission in afghanistan. we are committed to not leaving you behind. >> you talk about hope, kristen. do the afghans that you're working with now still have hope, do you think? >> i heard from my own interpreter who, again, i've been working with him for more than ten years over barriers in this visa process. this man served honorably. i depended on him. i know him. he is a friend. he deserves to be ...

Through to tajikistan, to uzbekistan, to pakistan, places where they can process the paperwork. the p2 visa process that was opened up for lives in danger, it has to be proved with extremely rigorous paperwork and processing and again there's nobody on the ground to do the visa processing, and people are running for their lives. they are having to move safe houses every few hours because the taliban keep finding them, pounding on doors, messaging them saying "we know who you are, we know where you are and we're going to kill you." they can't move through taliban checkpoints without fear of bei...