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Country, depended on day to day to survive in afghanistan. these folks didn t always have a birth certificate indicate because they were in a country that was a war-torn country and so there were people that didn t have a birth certificate indicate they had a birth year so they were signed january 1st of that year. and the inspector general s report seems to be politically motivated because if it was really interested in more thorough vetting which i would remind you the vetting is an ongoing process people that enter under the siv program are continually getting vetted. they would have called on congress to pass the bipartisan bill for afgan refugees right now to move them into a permanent visa situation and they would continue to get additional screening. from the washington times one e vac we just liberated by prison by the taliban was cleared to reach the u.s. another reached the u.s. and was released only to have the fbi conclude three months later that the e vac we posed nation ....
When he gives you his advice it is blunt, straight to you, and i know he gave biden that advice because he gave trump that advice as well. and we said ok, we understand it, we understand where we are going, what we need to do and they violated that, as a result of that, they had 13 dead americans at abby gate, and remember john, the year before that, the entire year, once we came to the dohar agreement, not a single american was killed in afghanistan in one year of that agreement and then the pullout. the taliban said to us at the time, remember, look, if you want kabul, you can have kabul. you take it and get out of there and we said no, we don t want to do that. that s what we should have done. should have had, gone in there and said we are going to leave when we want to leave, when all the americans are out, all the siv holders as well, we went out there and saw the commander get on the c-17. john: a haunted photograph, no question about that, and you mentioned the 13 service memb ....
Would be in some way no longer provide sanctuary to terrorists i think has been disproven. right now unfortunately afghanistan or the taliban has turned into a bit of a black hole, and we as the united states don t have much agency there. as you know, the vast majority of those eligible for an siv, as it s known, folks who served with the u.s. during the occupation, have not yet been able to get out of the country. i ve been in touch with a family in that category. i m sure you have been, as well. john kirby of the nsc told me this weekend that the u.s. remains committed to getting u.s. allies out. i wonder, do you believe that commitment? well, what that commitment means if we don t have the capacity as a country to get people out of afghanistan. we have no embassy in afghanistan. and again, there s no u.s. footprint there. but the thing that we can do as americans for our afghan partners and allies, as you mentioned, 80,000 have come to ....