president biden has committed to evacuating afghans who have helped the u.s. military over the last 20 years, a mission that s proven challenging and potentially perilous as thousands of afghans rush to the airport amid harassment and threats from the taliban. many u.s. veterans who served alongside afghan interpreters are scrambling to help their comrades. one of them is major thomas schuman who served multiple tours in afghanistan and earned a purple heart. he spent the last five years trying to help his interpreter zach obtain a visa to come to the united states. joining us now to share his story is marine corps major thomas schuman. we should note we re actually using the name zach. it s not his real name. it s for safety that we re using the name zach. he was able, fortunately, to get
out of afghanistan and make it to qatar. we appreciate you joining us this morning, thomas, what can you tell us we lost him unfortunately, we re having technical difficulties and sounds like we just lost thomas schuman. thomas, you can hear me? i can hear you. thankfully. so, walk us through this ordeal that zach had trying to get to the airport in kabul. at one point, he got a letter from the taliban saying they had ordered his execution. many, what we re talking about is the dramatic event getting to the airport. what many afghans are facing is getting from their province to kabul. fortunately, i had a friend ask