swath of afghans who worked for ngos and media, et. cetera. it can increase to the tens of thousands of people who are eligible. 117,000 last figures probably gone up a little bit now at the number evacuated. extraordinary flights. it s remarkable effort. the question is how many of those were sib applicants? there s been a lot of talk about the separate channel for entry into the airport run by afghan security forces that wasn t really as official as those being run by u.s. they may have contributed a large number of those within the 117,000. so the question, of course, who is left behind. president biden promised not leave any american behind. the question is the sib applicants less concrete promises to get them out from the biden administration but certainly something they want to achieve emphasis now the
his english mostly from movies, but his english is very good. he had a translator instinct and helped track down two doctors to the first american casualty after 9/11 cia officer. he showed resourcefulness. we had great conversations. i remember us talking about movies. he was having interested in idioms and vernacular english. i explained what the phrase a perfect storm meant and remember explaining also what the term groundhog day meant, and now he s going through a groundhog day of every single day outside the airport. but it s not just a movie, it s real life, and it s life and death. do you think the biden administration appreciates the urgency of what may happen here, what may happen if the u.s. doesn t does, in fact, leave people like your translator behind? i hope they do. i mean, i ve applied for an sib, special immigrant visa, for him. then i applied for a p2 and was
used military translators, and others who work side-by-side with americans during the 20-year war. the pentagon is saying watch. the intention to get every american out who wants to be as many as i.v. or sib or as many afghans as possible? as many americans who want to leave that we can get as fast as possible, as many of our siv applicants. as many vulnerable afghans that we can also work towards getting. emily: we are also curing other unsettling stories about the evacuation efforts. a leaked e-mail in reads in part, the afghans are housed in a living hell. trash, urine, frequent matter, and vomit cover the floors
mandate. ainsley: you have 30 people in your union who are not vaccinated; is that right? it s hard to tell the hipaa rules make it impossible for me to get that without interviewing each person we believe it s somewhere around 30 people. ainsley: are your fears if you are required to get the vaccine. well, my fears are that people who have decided not to get the vaccine for many reasons won t get the vaccine so we re not really talking about a mandate that s going to get all of our people vac sib natsd. talking about a mandate going to get rid of people who are not vaccinated that s not really the same thing. when we lose those people we are already short staffed. that s going to lead to mandatory overtime. our guys are already stressed. we have been doing this for a year and a half now. we have had no work related exposures. i feel like we are solving a problem we don t have. pose no risk to the public. wear ppe. we don t wear face masks we wear n-59 masks that we re fit for. we
the military, now serve in congress, equal number of democrats and republicans, our concern is making sure we leave no one behind. obviously, that starts with americans and of course, the people we promised made promises to work with us and trusted our lives with them and the interpreters and make sure that we uphold those promises and uphold our obligation to them to get them and family members out of that country. so we ll be sending a letter to the president, to the administration, making sure that we uphold our obligations and leave nobody behind. in regards to those on the ground, obviously, we re hearing from a number of constituents who have family members there, who are sib recipients and the special immigrant visa recipients and family members and we re trying to do everything we can to make sure the administration is accountable to them and us to. it s very difficult when they only give us one email address to go to in order to provide