get it done the way that you are describing. to get not only americans but priority one and priority two visa holders. those siv visa holders and applicants. if that took into to the end of september, to the end of november, to the end of the year, would that be okay with you? i don t think it needs to go that far, actually. i think that you looked at numbers we are well in excess of 100,000 people that have been evacuated at this point. the numbers are very high. you know, 10 to 20,000 a day. we actually have a sense for the numbers we are talking about. there is a certain number of american citizens. there s a certain number of siv applicants and their family members. i m of the belief that we can get that done probably in a matter of weeks substantially. i don t think there s a path to get that done between now and the end of the month and that s why i ve said we have to make sure that we re focusing on the mission and the actual numbers, as opposed to a date on the calendar. bu
taking a moment to describe the heroism that our marines, soldiers, and sailors are exhibiting as they screen the people who are coming onto the airfield. this is close-up war. the breath of the person you are searching is upon you. while we have over-watch in place, we still have to touch the clothes of the person that s coming in. i think you all can appreciate the courage and the dedication that is necessary to do this job. and to do it time after time. please remember that we have screened over 104,000 people. i d like to offer my profound condolences to the families of our servicemen and women and afghan civilians who lost their lives today. we have put more than 5,000 u.s. service members at risk to save as many civilians as we can. it s a noble mission. and today, we have seen, firsthand, how dangerous that mission is. isis will not deter us from accomplishing the mission. i can assure you of that. says this is close-up war. the breath of the person you are
sounding the alarm. banging the drum saying let s e start the evacuation. we would be in a very different position right now if we had in started the evacuation of our ad afghan partners back in april than we certainly are right now. but that doesn t change the position we re in right now. and it just makes it more re challenging and that s why i t have said we have to get it done. if this mission has to go i mean, we re we re in august now and the date certain is r supposedly august 31st. but if this mission, in order to get it done the way that you are describing. to get not only americans but priority one and priority two visa holders. those siv visa holders and applicants. if that took into to the endn of september, to the end of november, to the end of the year, would that be okay with to you?h i don t think it needs to go that far, actually. i think that you looked at numbers we are well in excess of 100,000 people that have been le evacuated at this point. the numbers
the urgency about getting the airlift evacuation mission done and over with has been driven, in part, but explicitly, by what they clearly and repeatedly reiterated was the risk of exactly this kind of attack by s exactly this attacker. we expect we we we didn t we thought this would happen sooner or later. it s tragic that it happened today. it s tragic there was this much loss of life.uc we are prepared to continue the mission. i thought this would happen sooner or later. we re prepared to continue the mission. general mckenzie speaking today in the wake of the attack, president biden late this afternoon, in an address to thei nation said the same.th but with sort of a presidential exclamation point and also a very explicit threat. over the past few weeks, i know you many of you are probably tired of hearing me say it. s we ve been made aware by our intelligence community that the
now, in new york, we should follow the population trends. new york city. a democratic component of new york state has increased in population. the rural areas in new york state have lost population. and so, if you are going to pull out a district, you are going to decrease the number of representatives. it probably ought to come from a rural area, which is probably means, you know, a couple of republican seats there. former-u.s. attorney general eric holder, thank you as always for making time tonight, sir. appreciate it. thanks for having me. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it was just over ten years ago it was actually ten years ago, almost exactly. and and an elite u.s. army ranger unit had gone on a mission in a dangerous part of wardak province. wardak province is just southwest of kabul