picks up our news coverage now. thank you so much, reverend sharpton. hello, everyone. i m alecia menendez. the massive high stakes operation to evacuate americans and their families in taliban held afghanistan. there are more than 80,000 afghans already waiting in a live and death situations. waiting to come to the u.s. the process is a refugee program gutted from the previous administration. this final year in office trump had the refugee ceiling at 50,000 down from the 100,000 refugees allowed per year under president obama. that drastic reduction saw the many reis thelement organizations shut down due to lack of work. the trump administration also deliberately obstructed visa processing from allies in afghanistan. according to olivia troy, counter terrorism adviser to mike pence tweeting, quote,
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friends, ben rhodes was the deputy national security adviser to president obama. mark jacobson, served as a senior adviser to secretary of defense ash carter. retired u.s. army general barry mccaffrey also joins us. and here in d.c. in the studio, bureau chief for the boston herald, kim atkins and alecia menendez. we have a couple days this week. your reaction to the resignation and what happens next. i think it puts us on very uncertain ground. it looks as if the u.s. government doesn t know what it s doing. mattis, a defense intellectual, absolutely idolized by the armed forces has been very respectful to the constitutional authority of the president. finally got push today far. i don t think it was syria. i think it was the lack of a coherent u.s. government national security policy. pentagon, state, cia, treasury,