deadline to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill. but progressives say count them out unless the final much larger reconciliation package bill let s interrupt this and go to secretary of state antony blinken. i want to give you all an update on the situation in afghanistan and our ongoing efforts there, particularly as they relate to u.s. citizens and then i m very happy to take your questions. let me begin with my profound appreciation for our diplomats and service members who are working around the clock at the airport in kabul and at a growing number of transit sites to facilitate the evacuation of americans, their families, citizens of allied and partner nations, afghans who have partnered with us over the last 20 years, and other afghans at risk. they re undertaking this mission under extremely difficult circumstances with incredible
certify? you re not just taking john doe off the street and saying you can get a flight into dulles airport and settle into vienna, virginia. i d just say one other thing. i worry about the lack of bipartisanship. president trump told us to get out. president biden got us out. it s going to be partisans in congress who say this is how america failed. 80,000 plus people have gone out in an experience of american heroism that should live for decades. the members of congress will screw us by being unable to say maybe we can take victory from the jaws of defeat and how to figure out how to be proud americans. they have a role, and their role is to say let s be victorious and heroic. please do it. phil, staying with members of congress, democrat seth moulton and republican peter meyer that traveled to afghanistan, they say to conduct oversight. they say they did this in secret because they were there to
instructions to them for how to do so. some may no longer be in the country. some may have claimed to be americans but turned out not to be. some may choose to stay. we ll continue to try to identify the status and plans of these people in the coming days. thus, from this list of approximately 1,000, we believe the number of americans actively seeking assistance to leave afghanistan is lower, likely significantly lower. having said that, these are dynamic calculations that we are working hour by hour to refine for accuracy. and let me if i can just take a moment to explain why the numbers are difficult to pin down with absolute precision at any given moment. let me start with americans who are in afghanistan and we believe want to leave. first, as i think all of you know, the u.s. government does not track americans movements
you think i m nice, right? greg: you are a terrible person. dana: do you think i m nice? dagen: yes, i do. dana: i do not feel like being nice and putting on a mask, i feel like looking at science and putting on a mask. i m looking outside right now, 20 people out there, i would say seven or wearing a mask, fine and maybe they have a reason to, i m not going to bother them but i think a mask mandate to be nice is ridiculous. dagen: the masks are kind of like a niceness diaper, you are covering your niceness because you can t smile. right, jesse? jesse: i am sick of politicians punishing americans when they should be punishing china, how about we mandate china do something. you can t enforce this. the garbage selector, the they have better things to do and homeless are exempt.
going to abandon some american citizens because he capitulated to the taliban 1 august deadline. jesse: we should have seen this coming, sleepy joe s handling of afghanistan has been a disaster on all levels. we know it doesn t take much to impeach a president these days. democrats tried to impeach george bush for a lot of things. including global warming as we all remember donald trump was impeached over a phone call. some would say a perfect phone call. and what happens when you ignore intelligence and strand thousands of innocent americans behind enemy lines in a war zone? and then blame them for not being able to get out. particularly given the security situation in afghanistan, for many years, we have urged americans not to travel there since march of this year, we have sent 19 separate messages to americans enrolled with the embassy in kabul, encouraging and then urging them toe leave the country. there could be other americans in afghanistan who never