you talked about the special operations vets and the biden state department in the justice department and the agency are working overtime to threaten and intimidate all of those vets. they are using every lover of their power to shut down those rescue operations to drag them out in they are now encouraging people to go to kabul. that is the message going on and i am one of the people that is trying to help rescue afghans and i am telling everybody that before they slap some phony charges on everybody and try to imprison people for trying to rescue people the same way they ve got people in prison for going to the capitol on january 6th. that i want to tell you what they have actually been doing. they have ceded control to the taliban and they have sent out to their active duty forces to let them know that all of those manifests will be vetted by a man who has a $5 million bounty on his head. he s one of the most wanted terrorists in the world.
in afghanistan now being watched in real time, minute by minute by the biden administration as they start the count down of operations at the kabul airport. they re now getting into being hours away from the tuesday deadline for which all u.s. forces are to be gone from afghanistan. isis-k, a threat. a lot of concern as dangerous hours tick down, wolf. yes, indeed. stand by, barbara. sam, you re there in doha, qatar, in the region. as you heard, the pentagon says it is still processing americans with passports, also processing afghans with special immigrant visa applications, other vulnerable afghans who worked with the u.s. they re processing these people for flights out of kabul. what do the operations look like today? what s going on? reporter: well, they re way down is the short answer to
wolf, in honest y, i heard stories of them beaten by the taliban, having to go two or three times, being harassed at the check points, fearful for their lives. there are people, interpreters, allies that are still there. we re going to have to continue the mission to rescue them. putting our troops there in harm s way where we saw we lost 13 service members, i have been reading about the family, incredible grief, we can t do that. we can t have more of our service members in that kind of harm s way. we need to withdraw our troops but continue through other means the operation of rescuing. certainly all americans and their families, vulnerable afghans and afghan allies. deepest condolences to families of the 13 service members that were killed. may they rest in peace and may their memories be a blessing. congressman, thanks for all you re doing. thanks for joining us. thank you, wolf. coming up, the mayor of new orleans is expected to speak any
operations that can go in there, we can have coordination with allies, put tremendous pressure on the taliban to make sure they re being released. some folks are not there in kabul. the current mission won t be able to help them. we need to first convince the taliban, pressure the taliban to open borders so some of them may be able to go to other countries and then fly to the united states. i represent the largest afghan community in the country. there are people in congress that will make sure those americans and green card holders and families that want to get out will be able to get out. that we re not going to forget them. all of the specific afghans still in afghanistan who have connection with the afghan americans in your district, have the afghan americans told you that their relatives, their friends have been able to get out or are still stuck behind? some are still stuck behind,
president has said. these people who are serving our troops are heroes. they re risking their own lives to save other americans and afghans. our entire country owes them a huge debt of gratitude. let s not forget in the past ten days since august 14, 117,000 people, american citizens, green card holders, afghan allies, third country residents have been evacuated, of that 117,000, 5400 americans were flown out. the pentagon says some flights are now carrying military equipment, meaning they re packing up, getting out. have you been briefed how much could potentially be abandoned that could ultimately end up in taliban hands or worse terrorist hands? our understanding is they re taking out as much equipment as possible without putting troops in harm s way. that s a judgment the president