payback. what is next with cdc changes. breaking tonight we have to wait a little longer, at least, to get a look at the materials used by the justice department to obtain the search warrant for last week s search and raid of the florida compound of former president trump. the judge declined to order the unsealing today instead scheduling a hearing for thursday. the president is calling for the release of the affidavit that was part of those materials in what he calls the interest of transparency. the fbi opposes the move. correspondent mark meredith has our report tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. thursday s hearing is going to be fascinating pitting former president trump directly against the government he once led. trump and the media are urging federal judge to unseal the affidavit related to last week s search. the justice department trying to block the release and as for president biden, he is just trying to avoid talking about the case. palest
central city. speaks person for the national security council told fox news the biden administration has made substantial efforts to improve the official is i of the siv application process. affidavitting in a statement, quote. our commitment to our afghan allies is enduring and we will continue to help them and their families leave afghanistan. at the beginning of 2020 only 8 people were overseeing the special immigrant visa program that number has now risen to 50. bret: quick question, in kabul there is a lot of question here on the national security side in the wake of the zawahiri killing safe haven and may use them to attack the u.s. and western targets. what are they saying about that on the ground? yeah, bret. right now there is a big concern from the americans that with the taliban in control, afghanistan could once again be used as terror hot bed to launch attacks around the world. we posed this question to the
begin processing. we ve been at this for a few days. so at each location we will spin up quickly here and begin the application and the process for a special immigrant status. the siv application process is a long process. what happens if at some point while somebody is on the military base they feel the screen something are they going back to afghanistan? what is the plan there? are you also taking questions? later. i defer you to the department of state for that. that s their area of expertise. we re prepared to continue this support until we get through this process in support of the state department. if somebody failed the screening process and is already on a u.s. facility.
we re going to spun up here and begin that application for the process for a special immigrant status. the siv application process, the screen prague ses is a long process. what happens if at some point while somebody is on a military base they fail that screening? are they going back to afghanistan? what is the plan there? you are also taking questions? i would defer you to the department of state for that. that s really their area of expertise. we want to continue the support until we get through this process. if somebody fails a screening process is on a military facility? so let me go back. they went through the screening process before putting feet on
0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we re working to evacuate remaining staff and we ve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world quite simply could not function without locally-employed staff. we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. so before you came out here, your colleague at the white house punted an enormous number of questions to you. you can thank her for that later. some of which involved some of the numbers you just went through and she gave some as well.