0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the sp entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban if they want to see any support and that include, it starts with freedom of travel. we have been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. 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 some time in the immediate future. yes, absolutely. i recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes. thank you for reminding us that americans were not required to register if they were in afghanistan. i hope my colleagues will support my legislation to require americans to register if they go to war zone. the ranking member says he never thought he would see an unconditional surrender
0 are you negotiating with that taliban on the issue of legitimizing them as a real government? not only us but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or support. it starts with freedom of travel. we ve been intensely engaged with turkey and qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again, which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week with american citizens on board. with regard to masari shareef. there s been charter flights there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we need to so a process put in place to allow the flights to start to move. we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary, we requested sets of classified briefings not long ago. welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. i now recognize respect b
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.
for sara. i wish that the state department were displaying some of the fortitude she is showing at this point. sam, the pushback would be, listen, i appreciate what you are doing, but you don t know who these people are. you may know who sara is. she not the problem. it s the other people you want to bring with her. what if they are isis-k? what if they are not supposed to be qualified? is that fair pushback? that s the point of the siv process, the point of having these planes filled with people land in a third-party country where the state department can conduct rigorous vetting in coordination with other agencies. but instead of any of that happening, it s just a flat no, there is nowhere to land, nowhere to go, and hoping that the problem will go away. this is not checking blocks at the dmv for a driver s license. this bureaucratic problem-solving, it s not going to solve.
everything that we can do to sara, but this is not a situation that resolves itself. as sam said, this is a situation that only gets harder by the day. and that is something that the state department absolutely have to under. this is not going away. every day is going to get harder for sara. i wish that the state department were displaying some of the fortitude she is showing at this point. sam, the pushback would be, listen, i appreciate what you are doing, but you don t know who these people are. you may know who sara is. she not the problem. it s the other people you want to bring with her. what if they are isis-k? what if they are not supposed to be qualified? is that fair pushback? that s the point of the siv process, the point of having these planes filled with people land in a third-party country where the state department can