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Haitian and cuban family members to come to the united states without wading through the visa process. and on the ground the government reportedly cracking down on the use of messaging services like telegram and whatsapp. ed, what are you seeing now on the streets there? >> well, i have just come back from a morning tour around havana and it is calm, but it is tense. the dogs, the army, the red and the black have been deployed. places that on sunday these mass demonstrated were concentrated

Yes, personal frustration, and there is a human element to that. an afghan journalist who was kidnapped with me, he helped me escape from captivity. you know, he's now in the united states. he's a u.s. citizen. he is panicked about his family. he's got children, his wife are still in afghanistan. his name is tyhir, and he cannot get them to the united states. with the visa process, there are so many afghans trying to get out now, the visa process is so backlogged that an african-american u.s. citizen who saved my life is unable to get his family out of afghanistan now. and that's what frustrat...

You heard secretary state blinken talk to this. we do need congressional relief to be able to expand and accelerate this program. right now given the numbers that we're working with, we think the best solution is some overseas locations where we can have either the d.o.d. owns or that we have access to or we will be able to support to get them temporary location while they work through this process. we think that's the most efficient way and safest way to handle this. and again after they get through the process, if they want to come to the united states the president couldn't have been more c...

It is unfortunate but it is -- the president has made the best of many bad situations that he is facing in this decision-making and he's decided to pull out and general miller is on the receiving end of that order and is executed to the best of his ability. >> the white house has said that president biden is committed to humanitarian and security assistance to afghanistan and the president has also said that afghans who worked alongside u.s. military and diplomats will not be left behind. the secretary of state said half of the some 18,000 afghans have begun a visa process. but do you see that...

Mostly. there's a little worry on this front when last week senator rand paul argued that the u.s. should not speed up the visa process for afghans who are now facing this imminent danger because of our departure. he said those afghans should stay behind. he said, quote, you can say the people in afghanistan helped us, but you can also say we helped liberate them as well. that's what he a said, so they should be left to fend for themselves no matter ma promised we made. today the house voted to expedite the process. house voted yes by a very large majority, a convincing majority of 366-46. so ...