misspoke. the president also said the likelihood there s going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. two days later, on july 10th, the taliban was reported to have 85% of the country. then on august 12th, the wall street journal reported that on july 13th you received an urgent dissent memo from kabul warning that the advances of the taliban and the rapid collapse of afghanistan. your spokesman said you read every memo sent to you from the dissent channel. so if you do, then you knew that, in fact, a major portion of people in the embassy believed that they were going to quickly overrun. on august 18th, president biden said the intelligence community did not say back in june or july that, in fact, this was going to collapse like it did.
0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing some time in the immediate future. yes, absolutely. i recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes. thank you for reminding us that americans were not required to register if they were in afghanistan. i hope my colleagues will support my legislation to require americans to register if they go to war zone. the ranking member says he never thought he would see an unconditional surrender
0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, you re correct. there are flights that have been there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we want to allow the flights to start to move. and we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary. we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. and i now recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes.
faster than expect and urging you to speed up the evacuation of the afghan allies, the drivers, translators, the people who stood by us. in the month between then and august 13th we only evacuated 1200 afghan allies. why didn t you move faster, sir? first, chris, the cable you re referring to came through something we call the dissent channel and it s something i take very seriously. this is a very important tradition the state department has, it s a very patriotic one. i read the cable almost immediately. i responded to the cable almost immediately. and we took to heart a number of recommend recommendations that were made in the cable. .chris: we only evacuated 1200 afghans in the next month. that doesn t sound like you took it that serious. when it comes to the special immigrant visa program, these are the folks that helped us, stood with us, translators,
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