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

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

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 ...

Pandemic. today announcing a third booster shot. like the inverse. right? >> right. >> the position was clear, ran on it why the public by and large supports the plan to end the war in afghanistan and the timetable but the inability to sort of flex with what's happening and to commit to getting everyone out and to do something from his perch to streamline the special visas or acknowledge some visa programs are not tenable. the taliban won't fly women from ngos to third countries to come here. some programs haven't been adapted to the facts on the ground. i wonder if you can sort of talk about ...

As we watch the desperate scenes of people trying to escape afghanistan, we wondered how many afghans actually need the protection of the u.s. so here are the facts. the international rescue committee says about 300,000 afghans have been affiliated with the u.s. mission in afghanistan in the nearly two decades since 9/11. congress has approved enough special immigrant visas or si visas, as they're known, to accommodate just over 10% of that number, 34,500. we should note they often take years to process. the state department says up to 60,000 additional people including human rights defenders ...