needed to talk to somebody and i needed to hear from somebody inside taliban territory to hear what it was like for myself. i talked to him the night the taliban took over the city. he told me the next day, i told he said, matt, i told my wife matt zeller called me, and now we have hope because maybe you can help get us out. they have hope in the american people. i told him, brother, i don t know what s going to happen, i can t advise you, i only know that we have one airport in kabul that doesn t seem to be functioning at this point. it is now but wasn t then. i said i can t tell what you to do. he said, i m going to have to think on it, but i don t he said he still loved us, he was still proud of the service he did with us and he wouldn t change it and he thanked us for a good life. that guy is worth fighting for. those are our people. we can go in and get them. he s still alive. they haven t killed these people yet. the places they re going door to
door in cities where we are not, they re just taking them away. in kabul, they re just telling them, we re putting you on a list and we ll come back when the americans are gone. we need to use the military that we have to take i know it s controversial, it s not popular but what is more popular, the mass death you re about to see on tv or knowing we could solve this problem? i think we still can. we need to keep this beach head open for as long as possible. and the only person in the world who can order that is the president of the united states. i m asking please, sir, we have a solution in place, we can tell you how to do it, our team wants to be of help. we re trying our best. we just wanted to solve this this whole time. this is a disaster that still hasn t fully unfolded yet. we can still save these people. matt zeller, the co-founder of no one left behind, veteran of the war in afghanistan. thank you for being here for your clarity and for your commitment on this. thanks, man
this show july 7th over a month ago. he is a veteran and served in afghanistan facing the prospect of a taliban takeover of that country. he and the organization he co-founded, no one left behind, have been sounding the alarm for months about the need to get going, to evacuate thousands of afghan men and women at grave risk from the taliban simply because they worked alongside and helped u.s. troops during our war effort there. we now know, as of what s happening right now, in kabul, we know the alarms that matt z zeller and others were sounding, they were right. the u.s. embassy is now closed, all staff has left. the u.s. has been able to relocate and evacuate some interpreters and their families. but what happens now, can meaningful action be taken in the coming days to make it worth
it. joining us now is matt zeller. thank you for being here. i know you haven t slept and i know it s been a difficult time. thanks for having me. yeah, i have family in kabul right now, this has been tough. tell me about what can be done. i ask you that first, because i am so clear that you have been sounding the alarm warning that it was going to go this way for so long. you were right for weeks and months before this finally happened. and now that we re finally here, and everyone is scrambling, i feel like we owe it to you to ask what can be done now? first thing i ask is the president of the united states takes a meeting with our team. we want to be proactive partners, we wanted to be this whole time, we have a plan and solution. there s an army of americans right now at work, there are private organizations, private citizens, human rights organizations, veterans