blinken is prepared to come out to the lectern at the state department for a speech billed this hour. we will bring it to you live. we are also hearing new in the last few moments in the white house that president biden intends to address the nation on all of this tomorrow. i am joined by howard dean, former dnc chairman and vermont governor, presidential candidate ran against hawkish u.s. policy. publisher of the nation magazine, and john stolls. chairman and co-founder of vote vets. i can start anywhere, john. start with you. what does it mean to see this formally end today? i think it is reflection point. certainly has been a long 18 days, been a long 20 years. i think this is one of the few weeks where i can say going back to when i first went to iraq in 2003 that the entire nation it
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featuring iraq veteran and democratic u.s. senator tammy duckworth. there s a bill to help the translators sponsored by encroach that passed with hugely overwhelming support. knew bill heads to the senate. durtd says they re ready to take up the cause in the senate. joining us now is illinois democratic senator, iraq war veteran tammy duckworth. thank you so much. good to be on. thank you for shining a light on this, rachel. it s so critically important. will the legislation that s now headed to the senate, which congressman jason crow championed in the house, will that make a difference? it will increase the number of visas and speed up the way in which their processed. will it pass and will it make a difference in time? it will pass. i don t know if it will make a difference in time because we have almost no time left. we re due to be completely out of afghanistan by september. let me tell you what happened with the iraqi translators that
don t leave anyone behind is indelibly marked in my psyche. it s been 20 years the u.s. troops have been in afghanistan. i woke up in the morning. everything is gone. they don t know what to do right now, honestly. we need to bring them all out of afghanistan. they believe truly in our cause and protecting our troops, and now we owe them. i know exactly how they feel. i ve been in the same situation in iraq. we need to take them too. we need to take them too. that s a new ad from vote vets featuring iraq veteran and illinois democratic u.s. senator tammy duckworth. as i mentioned before the break, there s a bill to help the translators sponsored by jason crow that passed with hugely overwhelming support.
we yes. it s doable. the war on terror has been with me my whole life. i reported on the 9/11 attacks as the editor by middle school paper, joined the marine corps as a platoon commander after college, a few weeks ago as a member of congress i voted to repeal the aumf. i know that s a story shared by many of the veterans who join me in that video with vote vets. we are coming together to make sure america keeps its promise. when i was a platoon commander in afghanistan, i worked with several interpreters who were with me when we hit ieds, you are with me as we talked to village elders and taliban controlled villages. i made promises personally to them, and i want to keep them. in terms of the u.s. government s capability in this regard, there s been some interesting discussion about what it would take to get this done at speed. moving afghan interpreters and their families to third country where they can have their visas process and be vetted before they be cleared to come to the u
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