focused on getting the locally employed staff out of afghanistan and out of harm s way and let me leave it at that for now. mr. secretary, thank you. i want to ask a more fundamental question about the taliban. your spokesperson indicated in recent days that de facto the taliban are in charge in kabul, but but there is no legal recognized government by the united states at this moment. and it kind of begs the question why does the united states even have to pay attention to what the taliban want? it s an segt. it s sanctioned by many organizations. it s already losing access to afghan government resources because of its past and current behavior. why should the united states even care what the taliban wants
0 these are known passport holders. okay. but have have lprs also been contacted? yes. and what about siv applicants, people who are we re in contact will we get i m sorry. i don t expect you to have all of it, but then, you know, since this whole thing began there s been a lot of criticism of the administration over how it handled it and there s been a lot of pushback from people within the administration about the hand that you were basically dealt or what you say you were dealt by the previous to deal with the taliban in terms of the siv program in terms of the broader refugee program. you guys have been in office for eight months. it s been five months since the president s decision was made. is there anything about the shortcomings have about been so readily identified by all sorts of people that you are actually willing to take responsibility for yourselves? thanks, matt. let me say two things. with regards to numbers in these different categories, as you ve
a reminder, don t miss full circle, our daily interactive newscast on facebook. you get to pick some of the stories we cover. you can see it weeknights 6:25 p.m. eastern on facebook/andersoncooperfull circle. let s head it over to chris. he has a lot ahead. thank you, anderson. i am chris cuomo and welcome to prime-time. tonight, we have the players for you. the yale classmate who came forward just today. he s here for his first tv interview. we have had the first tv interviews with several who say they can attest to kavanaugh s behavior in school. why? because i think his habits are disqualifying. of course not. because from the beginning, check it, i have thought the ford testimony would prove unsatisfying as a matter of establishing facts in that segt. and that the bigger test would be how kavanaugh portrayed himself. and now the media is fixated on that. and we have two people at the center of that fixation. chad luddington, who has new information about a police
of course not. because from the beginning, check it, i have thought the ford testimony would prove unsatisfying as a matter of establishing facts in that segt. and that the bigger test would be how kavanaugh portrayed himself. and now the media is fixated on that. and we have two people at the center of that fixation. chad luddington, who has new information about a police report that is out just tonight. he says it has kavanaugh s name on it. that much is true. you re going to hear from luddington directly, right here in just a moment. also here, michael avenatti. he represents the third woman to step forward with misconduct allegations against the judge. has the fbi reached out to julie swetnick yet? will they? now, she s come forward with more details tonight. is she credible? only four days left for the fbi to complete the kavanaugh probe. will this little look prove hurtful or helpful to the judge? my answer may surprise you, but that comes at the end of the show.
coming hours and days. you talked about this segt the stage for the north korean leader and the american president. what is at stake if in fact, these talks do not fail. they still could be successful and could fail. yeah. and he has said if they do not go well, he will walk away in the middle of the meeting. so he tried to temper expectations some what but the setting is high. the president and officials who talk about this indicate this is moving forward. now that secretary of state pompeo returned with a commitment and place, this looks like it a full steam ahead. if it doesn t go well, it could put the united states back in the posture it was in the beginning of the trump administration. remember where we were before this conciliatory moment.