to the contrary, my officers men and women ran into the building from around the world to help americans. yes or no. can you do it with me. yes or no? just want to clarify. you didn t block anybody. state didn t block anybody? no. we were there to help americans get out. how many afghans not meeting the qualifications of siv have been brought to the united states prior to i want to know how many afghan citizens came to the united states and have not met the qualifications for special immigrant visa. we re in the process of how many? how many? i don t know. how many did you bring? you were just at dulles, how many did you bring? by the end of the month, we will have brought totally 60,000. that have not met the siv process? some of those will have been through the siv process. all of them, regardless of siv procertification will have gone through rigorous security checks
0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, you re correct. there are flights that have been there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we want to allow the flights to start to move. and we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary. we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. and i now recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes.