people on our military flights and charter flights that we ve helped organize to get out of the airport we have now asked authorities that the president asked airlines to help participate in moving people not auto kabul but the third country sites were retaking them as we finish processing and going through security checks we reached agreements with two dozen countries over four continents who are helping or soon help to get people out of kabul and this is one way to make sure that we have enough light capacity to move people from those places to their ultimate destinations. chris: job one of course is getting americans through taliban checkpoints into the airport, here s what president biden said on friday. we have no indication that they haven t been able to get kabul to the airport we made an agreement with the taliban this far and they ve allowed them to go through.
women and there s every reason to believe their lives are going to get a lot worse now with the taliban in charge, is not a matter of national security, just as he appears to have made the cold calculation, despite the fact that 5 million people around the world haven t had any vaccinations, that he is going to provide not only one and two, but a third booster dose for americans. in its own way, it s a form of america first. i think especially when it came to the empathy point, chris, i agree. i feel like i could have written that speech for him having listened to him in the past year especially about covid but he sounded very cold and it s been described as the you re on your own speech and it might be true that no matter what happened, if the pull-out had had happened under president trump or under president biden that women in afghanistan were probably going to see a lot of their freedoms taken away and i think the other thing you need to see is that the president needs to make it
interpreter, et cetera, who we committed to bringing out of afghanistan if they wanted to leave. we inherited a program that was in a dead stall. no interviews were allowed when we took into office for visas for these folks, it was laurelly due to covid. the president issued an executive order to look at the program to see how we could make it work better. we surged resources, we went to 800 visas in july, issued 5,000 all told. here is the rub. and i acknowledge this. there is a difference between moving expeditiously to get this program off the ground, off the dead stall that it was in and getting moving. by the way, we cut processing time in half during this period and that s exactly what we were doing and we also instituted operation allies ref few to
ad for golf gear. may i ask how much they paid you? it was around 3 grand. chris: wow. pretty good, huh? yeah, yeah, it was awesome. i m paying for college. i m paying for i paid for my car and computer. for me, that s great money. chris: it sparked another idea, an app mitchell and her dad have created called playbook where she helps fellow college athletes find their own sponsors. mitchell gets a small cut of each deal. if you are a collegiate athlete, chris, you could look at the app and say oh, look at this, i have a kid who wants a video from me or you could get a message from a local business or maybe a national business, saying hey, we would love for you to post on your instagram about us. and ultimately it s an app that connects athletes to businesses and fans. chris: mitchell says the beauty of playbook is it s for any athlete, not just megastars.
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,