with gratitude and who are finally safe and sound. it is now our turn as americans to ensure that we do everything that we can to help support them. >> obviously the journey that a lot of these folks have been through in the immediate sense has been harrowing, not just in the big picture in terms of the decades of war in afghanistan and difficult circumstances at home, but just the immediate journey. the incredible security challenges now increasing the sort of desperate security challenges at the kabul airport in afghanistan. we've also heard very difficult reports about bad conditions on the ground in qatar, which was the first u.s. military base that was used as the first weigh station before it was essentially overfilled with evacuees from kabul and they started spreading them around to other weigh stations and other first stops. we know that people have had to deal with a lot on the way here. it sounds like from what you're saying as least when they get as far as a place like ft. bliss,