0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we re working to evacuate remaining staff and we ve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world quite simply could not function without locally-employed staff. we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. so before you came out here, your colleague at the white house punted an enormous number of questions to you. you can thank her for that later. some of which involved some of the numbers you just went through and she gave some as well.
0 kabul. and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm the vast majority of our staff and the immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the grounds of the karzai international airport. we re actively working to evacuate remaining staff and we have been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us, they have worked with us. they are our colleagues as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world simply could not function without locally employed staff. and we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. with that, matt? . so before you came out here, your colleague had a number of questions to you. you can thank her that for later, some of which involved the some of the numbers you just went through. she gave some of those as well. but there are three things that i want to ask. can you be extremely brief in the answers. the
i know it s been a long intense day already thanks for being here. rachel, thanks so much for having. me there is such an incredible, positive, hopeful story to tell. i am so happy to be on your show to tell it. tell me about what the american people should know about what is happening at fort bliss, which you saw, and the scale of the operations there. i literally just got home about an hour ago and what i saw filled my heart with tremendous hope and pride. i have the opportunity to thank a number of soldiers, troops, whose mission it is to clear land, to do everything they can within their power to provide humanitarian support for who they are calling their guests, the refugees who were allies to us and partners to us enough dentist and. they have built makeshift soccer goals so that the kids can play and every single
veronica escobar, democrat of texas. congressman, it s nice of you to make time. i know it s been a long and tense day already. thanks for being here. rachel, thanks so much for having me. there s such an incredible, positive, hopeful story to tell, and i m so happy to be on your show to tell it. well, tell me about what the american people should know about what s happening at ft. bliss, what you saw, and sort of the scale of the operations there. i literally just got home about an hour ago. what i saw filled my heart with tremendous hope and pride. i had the opportunity to thank a number of soldiers, troops whose mission it is to clear land, to do everything within their power to provide humanitarian support for who they are calling their guests. the refugees who were allies to us and partners to us in afghanistan. they have built makeshift soccer goals so that the kids can play, and every single soldier that i spoke to today who i expressed my gratitude to told me that
do everything within their power to provide humanitarian support for who they are calling their guests. the refugees who were allies to us and partners to us in afghanistan. they have built makeshift soccer goals so that the kids can play, and every single soldier that i spoke to today who i expressed my gratitude to told me that they were grateful, that they felt honor and pride to be able to participate in this mission. i also had the opportunity to speak to afghan families. and that was incredible. in reflecting on it once i got home, i will tell you i was overwhelmed by emotion. those families thanked me. they thanked our military leadership. i spoke to an interpreter who fled with his wife who is a journalist. these are people who are filled