Setting up alternate routes to the airport because of a threat that isis could target the crowds. listen to this. we re working hard and as fast as we can to get people out. that s our mission. that s our goal. and our determination to get every american citizen home and evacuate our afghan allies is unwavering. and as the frantic race to evacuate thousands of people continues, afghan allies who have applied for special immigrant visas being told to stay away from the airport today especially, essentially pushed to the end of the line. that s what we re told. after american citizens, they go behind american citizens and legal permanent residents. a source telling cnn the airport is like the wild west with special forces afghan and american trying to help their afghan former colleagues. we will continue to get afghans at risk out of the country even after u.s. military
You spoke to the president of the united states on the day the capitol was attacked by rioters chanting hang mike pence? really? okay. y all believe that? by the way, look, there is the gallas hanging. the lies and misinformation killing us, killing our democracy. the lies and information about covid and the big lie that fueled the attack on the united states capitol. so just how wide ranging will the committee s investigation of the january 6th insurrection be? whose phone records will the select committee want to see? congressman adam schiff on the committee. he also attended a briefing just today on afghanistan. he s going to discuss that. we ll discuss that with him and a lot more to come. scientific c.
The ground. do you expect troops will have to past the deadline to get everyone out? absolutely. look, we can get out by august 31st but i suspect we ll be leaving a lot of people behind. i couldn t tell you how many american citizens would be left behind but we ll be certainly leaving a lot of afghan allies behind if we abide by this arbitrary date. i understand the seriousness of the scircumstance on the ground. for the life of me, don, i can t understand why we re been in the middle of the night in july would have been an ideal place i would think to evacuate thousands of our citizens and allies. there are so many decisions. it s so disturbing to watch this. this is a strategic humanitarian and diplomatic disaster unfolding. there will be long term consequences. we can go home but it doesn t mean the war ends. i m fearful we ll have another base for these jihad terrorists
So we re told that president biden is still deciding whether to extend the august 31st deadline for removing all u.s. troops from afghanistan. officials say they need to know by tomorrow in order to have if you have time to get all troops and equipment out of kabul airport by the 31st, which is next tuesday. so let s bring in charlie dent and former republican congressman, he s a former repub connecticut republican congressman. jim, let s start with you. we have huge news here, the full fd fda approval of pfizer and we re at a critical point for af afgha afghanistan. what is on the line for president biden this week? right now he s trying to talk about getting everyone vaccinated and making sure we get to the numbers. the pfizer thing is a big deal
Removing all u.s. troops from afghanistan. they briefed lawmakers on the intelligence committee on the crisis unfolding and the as the house select committee is investigating plans to ask companies to preserve the phone records of multiple people including some members of congress. let s get to it with democratic congressman adam schiff. thank you so much. appreciate you joining us. good evening. a lot to get to on afghanistan. i want to start with the select committee investigating january 6th. you re on that committee. benny thompson, the committee s chair confirming to cnn he wants tell lacombe companies to preserve phone records to members of congress and kevin mccarthy, jim jordan spoke with trump on january 6th. whose records do you want to see? well, i m going to leave it as you might imagine to the chairman to make those disclosures public or in a formal announcement. i can tell you this, we intend