to coordinate with our partners in the government to get folks on the evacuation list and into the airport and while we have been successful in some cases but there are so many cases where they are turned away and we know the history won t judge us for how many people we get out of kabul but how many are left behind. the president said yesterday that getting everybody out can t be guaranteed. obviously many of the people you talk about are not necessarily people who i don t know. are all the people, you are talking about people in the visa process or worked for the united states or aftghans who are understandably concerned about the taliban? yeah. so there s a divide. a significant number are people that qualified for the special immigrant visas. they were translators, drivers, embassy security guards and in the process and it was easier to
bean obeidallah, wajahat ali, let me start with atyou, and th latest about the evacuation. particularly this if effort to get people out safely seems to be mostly succeeding.pe well, i think so far, what we know with that the u.s. recognized there is a problem, which f you look back over the events, a lot of people argue they are slow to see that. there has been, images out of the kabul airport, just chaos, and a security situation that the soldiers that are positioned up on t the wall are trying har to contain, and make it incredibly difficult for people who are eligible to evacuate, and those who are cleared on an evacuation list can make it to
the after began female situation. she is in charge of root causes, congressman. i guess the root cause for this situation is sitting in the oval office. it is interesting how she is getting out of town. she is going to vietnam. she is getting out of town at just the right time. you hit on an important point. the tragedy to women, to half of the population of afghanistan, they are not on the evacuation list in any priority. they will be there. those children are going to be force married off. those young girls will no longer get an education and society will turn to the 600 a.d. where it was when we came in. jesse: i am hearing she is going to leak that she advised that they had to pivot and no one
the after began female situation. she is in charge of root causes, congressman. i guess the root cause for this situation is sitting in the oval office. it is interesting how she is getting out of town. she is going to vietnam. she is getting out of town at just the right time. you hit on an important point. the tragedy to women, to half of the population of afghanistan, they are not on the evacuation list in any priority. they will be there. those children are going to be force married off. those young girls will no longer get an education and society will turn to the 600 a.d. where it was when we came in. jesse: i am hearing she is going to leak that she advised that they had to pivot and no one listened to her because
soldiers positioned on the wall have been trying very hard to contain and making it difficult for afghan citizens and allies cleared on the evacuation list to make it to the airport. i ve been talking to families on ground some of them cleared for evacuation have been given vague instructions to make their way to the airport and try to flag down a soldier and get someone s attention with their documents. many tried for hours on end, overnight in some cases with children in tow and just couldn t even get close enough to the airport. so there has been an absolute backlog there outside the airport. the recognition and i think the constant question the white house has faced over the last few days about why more plans weren t put into place, what can be done with the u.s. presence just from the airport to get people inside has forced them to try as you mentioned in the introduction take on some new steps and figure out what they can do. but that situation isn t going to clear itself overnig