know, a while ago you talked about the airplanes setting in the shareef and the state department not giving them clearance to land. we have been working on several of those planes. in fact, meriam was on one of those planes before we pulled her off. what we had suggested to the state department. i made the suggestion. i called them and said why don t we let one plane leave that only has amsits and sivs special immigration visas that are granted to come to the u.s.? why don t we just fill up one plane and allow them to come in? they said no, we can t. because we won t know who is on the map fest sheet. i said i will give you the pats ports and all the documentations of the sivs to show who is on there. they still wouldn t grant us opportunity to leave. rachel: right. on top of all of this, congressman, the worst part and maybe it s not the worst part but it s one of the parts that the state department and the administration is actually trying to smear you. they are accusing you of sho
started trying to find other places to take then out of through other countries and set up rat lines which we have been successful doing, we have right now 23 other u.s. citizens, amsits in safe houses different locations outside of kabul waiting to get out, too. when we started trying to find and work with amsitse around there they told us rat mullin we have been instructed not to assist you in any way. this is embassies telling me that washington, d.c. told them not to assist us in any way. it s a boldfaced lie when they are out there saying this was a successful evacuation. this was the successful mission when rachel, the truth is, i wouldn t be there if it was successful. other organizations wouldn t be there. the sentinel foundation wouldn t be there if it was successful. when we worked for literally 4, almost around the clock hours trying to negotiate with the
effort to get the spotlight. i understand that. bret: how do you respond to that. i never pretended to be rambeau. we were surrounded by great people. of all the guys i m working with i m the low man on the totem pole. they felt i could be of assistance to them. how? logistically maybe make phone calls and being able to take in the sivs or the amsits as they came on the plane. that was the plan. that plan changed and it changed when we wasn t allowed to get into afghanistan. we quickly realized that the president and the state department general mille, general mckenzie will lying to the american people by saying everybody who wanted out could get out that is a lie. that a boldfaced 100 percent lie because we were working with these individuals. bret: you know today that there are just a bunch of them still stuck there? right now as we speak, right before we started talking, i