they said the state department s spokesperson said there were limiting factors like the entryways into the airport, but said those entryways needed to be limited because of the heightened security situation on the ground there. and so the biden administration is really pushing back on this report, citing its inaccuracies, saying that there are concerns about how this was all pulled off, but they still haven t come out with their own reports as to after action and what could have been done better. republicans on the house foreign affairs committee said the biden administration refused to take part in the report, and the democrats on the committee did not participate. how is the administration responding to this report beyond what we just heard from kylie? well, they re saying they did brief congress extensively after the fact. they have been saying they have provided over 250 briefings to lawmakers since the noncombatant evacuation operation, the massive evacuation operation from af
able to manage many casualties. now following august 15th, the change in political power, unfortunately those systems are disrupted, human capital are dismissed. 0ur systems are disrupted, human capital are dismissed. our people in particular unfortunately pay the price. the reason i am focusing on this part is based on the reports i have received, a big number of casualties are caused due to the delays, lack of knowledge and leadership in evacuating people, and the time between evacuation operation and reaching the right destination. operation and reaching the right destination. . . operation and reaching the right destination. what do you think needs to be destination. what do you think needs to be done destination. what do you think needs to be done now, - destination. what do you think needs to be done now, given - destination. what do you think| needs to be done now, given the severity of the situation? what more can be done to help in the immediate term? in
been taking place, recently, as the russians try to push through the front lines. that strike will try to bring back memories of a bombing of a theater in mariupol, where hundreds of women and children were taking shelter. some 300 people or more were thought to have been killed there. they even spelled out the russian word for children, in hopes of being spared by the russian bombs. this village of vill ha receive ka, it has been taking russian shelling for weeks now. officials managed a successful evacuation operation in late april, where they got out 49 people, including 8 children, by train to western ukraine. but clearly, pam, not everyone had left. scott, thanks so much. and i want to bring in phil mud now. he was an fbi senior intelligence adviser and cia counterterrorism official. we heard from bill burns earlier today. he says putin s unprovoked attack on ukraine was years in
bring back memories of the bombing of that theater in mariupol where some 300 people or more were thought to have been killed. hundreds of people were taking shelter there. even the word children was spelled out on the pavement in russian in hopes that it would be spared from the russian bombs. the village has been the target of russian shelling for weeks now. it was in late april that officials there managed a successful evacuation operation that got 49 people out, including eight children. but clearly not everyone had left. scott mcclain, cnn, lviv, ukraine. russia s war has upended life for so many people right across this country. more than 13 million have had to flee their homes in search of safety. alex fled his home in irpin with his 1-month-old son.
for the past two weeks or so. there was an evacuation operation that was successful two weeks ago, but clearly there were some people left behind. so much of that village, we re told, had been bombed that this school was really one of the last remaining places you could actually shelter in. so some of my colleagues managed to get to that area and speak to some of the survivors, and their stories are really remarkable. they said amongst the 90 or so people down there were children and elderly people. one man said he was one of the first to make it out and got help with other people from the village of who had come to help to see if there were any survivors. another man said it was just confusion, disinterred orientation, pure darkness instantly when those three stories of the school came down. a third man who had a bandage on