Texas Governor Greg Abbott today, Thursday, December 16, sent a letter to the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stating firmly that the Texas National Guard will not undergo the Biden Administration's Federal vaccine mandate.
members in the cabinet of afghanistan, were there any terrorists of the 5,000 released with the consent and negotiated agreement of the trump administration? almost certainly, yes. i guess our concern about terrorists is pretty selective. limited to partisanship. i yield back. gentleman yields back his time. i now represent recognize representative steve shabbot of ohio for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. on august 16, mr. secretary president biden said that the administration had considered every contingency and was executing the evacuation according to your plan. was it part of your plan to rely on the taliban to ensure the safety of americans trying to flee the country? that s what happened.
0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. we ve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. with regard to masari shareef. there s been charter flights there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we need to so a process put in place to allow the flights to start to move. we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary, we requested sets of classified briefings not long ago. welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. i now recognize respect b
protect them because god forbid they don t make it out, somebody sees the video, they got trouble. why show the video? to keep you interested. to show you the reality. to show you the desperation. sara is exhausted but recorded a new video for us to tell us just how hard this has been and may still be. listen. i don t know where to start. there is so much pain. and it s heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my passport, screaming to the people who were controlling the gate. i cannot leave this country since august 16. i tried everything to leave. i don t know what went wrong. and why i couldn t leave. but i just want to record this for my family and my friends so they know what s going on. i have young kids and i have
and it s heartbreaking. so i tried everything in my power to leave this country, going gate to gate, walking gate to gate, show them my passport, screaming to the people who were controlling the gate. i cannot leave this country since august 16. i tried everything to leave. i don t know what went wrong. and why i couldn t leave. but i just want to record this for my family and my friends so they know what s going on. i have young kids and i have women, i have guys who are been waiting for so long, since 2017, 2018. they have been waiting.