0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we re actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. and we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. with that, matt? . so before you came out here, your colleague had a number of questions to you. you can thank her that for later, some of which involved the some of the numbers you just went through. she gave some of those as well. but there are three things that i want to ask. can you be extremely brief in the answers. the
redskins. coming up former notre dame head football coach lou holtz will join to us react. i m sure he will have a thing or two to say about that. brian: i m sure they have a statement later on in the show. thank you so much, jillian. growing tensions outside kabul international airport as soldiers and marines race against time to evacuate americans in an impossible tuesday deadline. our next guest began working as interpreter for the u.s. coalition forces in 2012. just one year after she was kidnapped and tortured by the taliban. she escaped to afghanistan just hours before the country fell to the terror group. that was back on august 15th. now, she is fighting to get her family to safety. z.z. joins us now. z.z. glad you are okay. congressman emanuel cleaver was a big help to you, right? yes, he is. brian: how did he help you? they helped me with the process because i was trying to leave afghanistan but the visa process is a very long process
but there are some alternatives ways that they are picking up, you know, u.s. citizens. and is it just you trying to get out or is your mom trying to get out as well? it s not only me that i have documents. i know a few people that they came from the u.s. to visit their families and they re stuck here. my flight was on august 15th, exactly on the day that the taliban entered kabul city. so my flight was canceled because of, you know, the rush inside the airport. you know, people were running
and so far this year the louisville metro police department reports 125 murders, 118 of those people were shot to death. now, the city is on pace to have more homicides than the past two years combined. nbc news reporter dion hampton taking a deep dive into these startling statistics and joins us with a breakdown. good to see you, man and you did a lot of research into all of this. what is happening louisville? louisville is a city that is under siege, quite frankly. they have a homicide problem. like you mentioned there were 125 homicides as of august 15th, and this is a city that didn t just break its homicide record last year, but completely blew past it and there s several reasons for all of these homicides. i mean, so for one thing the police department is short 240 officers. i ll give them that, but the officers that are working there they re just not they re kind
good morning to you, congressman. good morning, thank you. steve: explain why the administration has been dragging their feet and how it relates to what is going on on our southern border. listen, president biden knows he has a problem. he knows he hasn t been able to control the flow of economic migrants come into this country across the southern border. and because of how sensitive he is to that, he slow rolled the process to get afghan interpreters who work for the u.s. military, individuals who put their lives on the line to serve our american mission. he didn t want those optics. as a result, what we asked that administration to do. what a bipartisan group of us asked us to start doing in april and may to speed up this backlog to get folks who would be killed by the taliban because of their work for the u.s. out delay, delay, delay. they finally started at the end of july and then by august 15th, the taliban had taken over kabul. steve: obviously, joe biden said, you know, we