as a second official added that the mission isn t accomplished if americans are left behind. the top military officer says it is possible the u.s. will cooperate with the taliban when taking on other gnomic terrorist groups like isis-k as a national security visor struggles to define a relationship with the group that helped facilitate the september 11th attack. coordination against isis-k. it s possible. what is the taliban? are they now our frenemy? are they are adversary? what are they? it s hard to put a label on it in part because we have yet to see what they are going to be now that they are in control, physical control of afghanistan. shannon: thought admission as the new reality on the ground is kabul is fierce. the declarations of victory continue as the taliban parade american grade weapons through the street and long lines formant bands many try to withdraw their savings buried at present by and sticking to the script in his oval office
have gone over to afghanistan to take a look. the congressman we are told is headed home. there are a lot of allegations and reports about where he was, what he tried to do, what level of success he may or may not have had, but david, it gets back to this thing that there are a number of americans who cannot believe that there were americans left behind, if there were allies by the thousands, maybe tens of thousands, we were told today that the majority of the people who helped as interpreters and others did not get out. i don t think that that, you note we should be sending people over there or folks should be taking their own initiative to go over there, being warned by the state department and others, it is absolutely not safe but you can understand the frustration. yes, i do. i will give congressman mullen the benefit of the doubt. i assume that there are really some people there that need to be rescued who he is in touch with and he thought somehow he could help. as someone wh
need to be resettled, adding to the pressure the european union is not exactly throwing out the welcome mat. germany s interior minister warned against quotas while e.u. ministers in a joint statement stressed avoiding the recurrence of large-scale illegal immigration resulting in new security threats for its citizens. the u.s. has evacuated more than 123,000 people since mid-august, including 6,000 americans in more than 73,000 afghans print civilians from other countries. right now evacuees arriving in the u.s. are being brought to various airbases, including virginia, texas, wisconsin, and new jersey. another probable site, new york s jfk international airport as homeland security and state officials work to transform one of its hangers into a processing site. no where and how many refugees will come here, but the mayor said the city of lady liberty will welcome them. we are city of immigrants and we are a city of refugees, of course we will provide a welcome to those who need our
secretary state antony blinken conceded it begins in a chapter. the military mission is over. a new diplomatic mission must begin. shannon. shannon: lauren, thank you. the federal government has reported the been unable to contact thousands of migrant children released from its custody, meaning essentially one in three calls made to those kids or their sponsors between january and may went unanswered. that s according to information obtained by axios via my freedom of information act request buried at the information also shows 32,000 and have been released into the u.s. from hhs shelters where the government placed fewer than 15,000 follow-up calls. mark wayne mullen is on his way home tonight following reports he tried to get into afghanistan in an effort to extricate americans left stranded by the u.s. withdrawal. quoting from his early instagram post, i m a great americans, many more veterans and many were not, are stepping up to keep our
were on able to help. that includes afghans applying for sivs, or special immigrant visas. one official said, according again i don t have an estimate for you on the number of sivs and family members who are still there but i would say it s the majority of them. president biden also promised to evacuate u.s.-sponsored journalists. these are afghans who work for u.s.-funded news organizations and have been targets of the taliban because they help americans. it turns out hundreds of them were also left behind. today, white house press secretary jen psaki appeared to indicate the journalists had opportunities to flee. secretary psaki: estate apartment would blast notifications through a variety of channels to american citizens telling them to meet at a specific location from which we would either bust them into the airport in convoys or escrow people on foot. it s unclear of our afghan allies got these notifications and the state department has already said communication on the gro