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This side and for the people like zak who are fleeing for their lives right now. and the reason we can see it in detail with major schueman and zak because the major has been chronicling his effort outloud and in public, specifically on instagram, not just to provide a record of what's happening to zak but also as a way to beg for help to anyone who might see his posts and might be able to help at all. so here was major schueman three days ago. quote, if zak can get an escort to the airport, we can get him on a plane today. he is 7.5 kilometers from the airport. if you have someone on the grou...

Do you feel like having been through this with i imagine the elation and relief that you're feeling today, do you feel like you have anything that you have learned that you can say right now about things that can be done to change that process right now, to get people out right now? things that can be done in the short term to fix what is obviously a broken system, at least to save some more lives in coming days? >> sure. it's worth noting that the system did not work for zak. even though the fact that zak is evacuated, it wasn't due to the system. it was due to the bravery and heroism of some...

Gate. anyone who can escort his family to ramp 8, please let me go. soon after he shared a photo of zak and his entire family, but it did not come with good news. major schueman wrote, not the ending we hoped for. they made a harrowing escape to kabul. at 2:00 a.m. he fled his tiny apartment and walked to the airport. he crossed multiple taliban checkpoints and just barely made it. i told them meet the marines at a specific access point because i had confirmation an officer would let him through. that officer is no longer responding to my messages. another officer told me he would make sure za...

System did not work for zak. even though the fact that zak is evacuated, it wasn't due to the system, it was due to the bravery and heroism of some air force folks and some marines who rallied around and picked zak's family up from outside that gate. and so he's still not successful in his siv application. he's still not actually past the first phase which is chief admission approval. what could be added to the system, i think common sense and potentially a little human aspect. if maybe an officer can attest that i served with this person and puts their name on the line, maybe that, i think, d...

Try to get themselves from that outlying province where they were living to kabul. then once in kabul to get to the airport to try to iron out this long-standing, years-long snag in his visa and then to see if he and his family could get on one of those last flights out as the u.s. continues its chaotic exodus out of afghanistan. now, if any of this sounds familiar to you, it may be because zak and major thomas schueman actually spoke to us here on this show a few weeks ago with my colleague ali velshi, and you may remember that interview. >> zak, undoubtedly risked life and limb. zak undoubte...