really, really awful couple of weeks. and i actually commented to one of the people who i met in the last few days and now we are very close. and these ragtag groups of people have come together. he said that this week feels like argo meets stripes. it s people who in some cases that civilians who really did not have any connection to this in the beginning, who just dropped everything. in a lot of cases, it s people like myself, i m a former army intelligence officer. it s people that i worked with in intelligence, whether in the military or not. but it s also people like folks who one person i work with has never deployed. they are reservist. and it s just a little piece of intelligence or reliable rumor that we can get, about a way that we can help, we are all in it together to get people out.
i know you have been active in getting refugees out. you are in mexico where many refugees ended up. and new york times associated people and did up their due to the intervention of their foreign minister. what is the effort, like with people getting to safety and being resettled? thanks for having me chris. the mexican government has been extremely generous with their opening the doors to afghan evacuees. and so, they are transitioning them. trying to figure out what type of housing to give them, programs and things like that, which is encouraging. they have been going so far as actually going physically to the airport and to welcome, personally, there s coming to the country. so it is really, really encouraging. a lot of people have left very traumatic situations from afghanistan, literally running for their lives with the shirts on their backs, leaving all of their belongings and loved ones
acts of kindness i have seen in the last couple of weeks. i m sure jason is on various whatsapp chat rooms, you don t even know who these people are, but we are trying to help as many people as we can. that s what we need to do as a world, we need to support and make sure that those in afghanistan that are staying, and frankly those that are outside afghanistan, that we continue to support. from a legal perspective, of course we believe that people should be vetted and people are trying to do that as best they can. which is why there is usually a country that afghans are sent to before they are going on to their new home. so those things are happening and i think that people who are saying those things may be very misinformed as to what a lot of the ground work being done is. to make sure that people are moving safely, and to make sure that the countries are also
conservative and much more robust. and based on new information. not legacy information from the sixties and seventies, that the old system was based on. so it was teamwork. it was resources. and it was the great will to get this thing done by everyone involved from within new orleans and externally. it s exactly what needs to happen in a lot of other places. well the grid i mean the grid and cell service, congressman troy carter, to your point about the major pieces of infrastructure that are down. do you have a sense that the utility company what happened and what the timeline is like? and does it inform what you are thinking of with these big votes on infrastructure happening in d.c.? certainly. when we think about infrastructure, and i ve said this all along, if there is
intelligence committee, i wonder do you know anything about? this or have any read about where congressman mueller? is he s a member of our committee, i don t know what is circumstances are. a lot of our members feel desperate to try to help people, particularly those that have served in iraq and afghanistan. in no them and well i can understand, and i feel very much the same way, we don t want to put peoples lives at risk, we don t want to put our service members lives at risk. by one of the members putting themselves in a position where they may be harmed. and i think when members for example, went to afghanistan, and while we are trying to evacuate others, it added to the burden of those conducting the evacuation. it added to the dangers of others. so i really think we need to work through the administration, to try to continue to evacuate any people, that we re working with us, and that or threatened. but i don t think that s the right way to do it. all right, congressman adam