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.
one that he became president. and that one thing alone emboldened the taliban and allowed them to advance. something they never tried with donald trump as president. the final lie biden claimed that, quote, the likelihood there s going to be the taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely. who was it? defense secretary gates? he says, yeah, joe s been wrong on every foreign policy issue for 40 years. he s wrong again. at the same time he was uttering those words, our intel community, this was not an intelligence failure, americans need to know the truth. our intel community was telling him something very different, with great emphasis on a daily base ba is. there s a reason the cia pulled their people out seven weeks ago. they were warning joe biden daily. everyone warned biden. the fight against the taliban was not going well. and joe did nothing. instead of fighting back, no, he just expanded on the lie. the same month that he s telling
failing memory about what happened in afghanistan. is the taliban takeover of afghanistan now inevitable? no, it is not. the likelihood there is going to be taliban overrunning everything and in control of everything is highly unlikely. this is not the overall idea of leaving afghanistan, this is about leaving hastily and ineptly. secretary blinken, how did president biden get that so wrong? with a stronger taliban that is greater access to technology that we supplied. despite the president s promise that the withdrawal of american troops will be responsible, deliberate coming in safe come to bite and a administration is trying to explain why the u.s. was so caught off guard. breaking news and it is difficult, can confirm that a member of u.s. service members were killed at the kabul