On capitol hill. 50 senators demand the president ramp up evacuations as multiple congressional committees are expected to hold hearings. senator bob menendez calling it a flawed execution asking secretary of defense austin and secretary of state blinken to appear this week as republican senator lindsey graham says this is reaching the level of impeachment. if we leave one american behind, don t get all those afghans who stepped up to the plate out then president biden in my view committed a high crime and misdemeanor and should be impeached. reporter: yesterday they briefed lawmakers on a conference call but that s not doing much too slow demand for these hearings. we will see them on the house and senate side. charles: the senate armed service committee among those
That s put together of who is on those aircraft and that decision is made of where that, you know, could go to. let s say some flights were going into qatar and taking some there so that afghans could be held there temporarily and then waiting for other flights to go what we re trying to do is keep the airflow that s in the theater, right, from having to go far, that continue to drop people off to allow other flights to take from qatar forward to, for instance, into dulles. so, you know, we depends on how many folks we have, what is it, a full slight of siv. is it other afghans? is it americans? so that s just extremely dynamic and you know, with trans com and the commanders and those manifests are done, they make those decisions, you know, on the spot. so the idea that only siv s
Operation. it is unclear if it is a military rescue operation, they looking at my military ways to reach american allies at the airport perimeter the president said us forces of not reached that area because it could have unintended consequent is on people are not part of the taliban. nato secretary-general indicated allied nations are scrambling to meet the deadline set by the us. the timeline on the 30 first of august, several allies, the need to extend that to get more people out. our focus is to get our own staff people working for nato allied countries but also afghans. reporter: the president claimed there s been no challenge to america s credulity on the world stage but the headlines outside the us paint a different picture.
We successfully secured the kabul airport. the situation a week ago was different than it is today. the airport remains secure. us military personnel oversee flight operations, us military contracted aircraft as well as for an aircraft operate within kabul airport. additionally the us military has maintained gate security and supported state department colleagues in processing of individuals to prepare for evacuation flights out of afghanistan. critical to afghans at risk out of the dire situation in afghanistan requires additional space at intermediate safe havens and other locations. this impacts our throughput. the us military airlifted
Enemy, get everyone who needs to get out and leaving. and the thought right there, leaving with them like we re being kicked out. this is the strongest military in the history of the world and we can crush anybody we want to. what we ve done, we ve got a lot of politically correct woke leaders in charge and all they care about is their own political aspirations, their own futures. they don t care about anybody else that s out there. they re when you think about the afghans, too, there s horrifying things happening right now that, you can t even imagine what people can do to each other and the taliban are doing it because we re weak. we re weak and at least we know which bathroom everyone can use. well, but rob, we ve made the decision to be weak and i think that s where people are shocked, dismayed and extraordinarily sad. we ve made this decision to that i can this approach. yeah, i mean, we ve made the decision for sure, we ve done it either at the voting box or, you know, whate