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since his arrest in january. back in march, the judge in the case said he found, quote, none of his many attempts to manipulate the evidence and minimize his actions persuasive. government has secured 50 guilty pleas in the insurrection. news continues right now. let's hand it over to chris. >> appreciate you. welcome to "prime time." we will show you the unimaginable scenarios that are still unfolding all across new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, delaware, maryland, connecticut and virginia. search and rescue missions are going to go on through the night. there's a lot that is still not known. once again, here is what we know. the storm that followed the one that we were all worried about hit harder than expected. of course, we were all waiting for henri in the northeast. right? it barely came in any real way. then a lot of people apparently slept on ida, making its way to
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the northeast. it drowned us. close to 50 dead, still counting, still early numbers. that's in the northeast and mid-atlantic states. the question becomes why? too much, too soon. so much rain, record rainfall in many places, in a compressed period of just a few hours. for example, in new york city, a record three inches of rain in one hour. how much is that? the previous record, which stood for 100 years, was just over an inch. this record left wreckage. it was about this time last night that the sky started unleashing its fury, spawning at least eight tornadoes, dumping rain, triggering flash floods. new york city never had a flash flood emergency alert issued ever until now. almost the entire subway system knocked out at one point. came back different ways.
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people got stranded, got back on. other people got stranded on platforms. some overnight. roads, railroads, stadiums, hopes completely under water. look at this. this is a yankees minor league affiliate stadium in new jersey. it's almost entirely submerged. the governor there has just requested a major disaster declaration from president biden. we will see what happens. we have been watching rescue teams go house to house in inflatable boats all day. there are a lot of areas that have not been accessed. still, water rescues estimated to be in the thousands, once again, first responders are stepg stepping up. towns are under water. you can see how homes are destroyed and what they are dealing with. you can't see in the water. it makes everything harder. i stopped several times and took hours to get home. in queens, everything was flooded. there were cars stuck. every time i stopped, i saw
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neighbors, i saw other drivers getting out of their cars and helping people who were in dis distress. every time. people stepped up. it likely saved lives. we got a long way to go until we know how much damage ida did. remember, the real ground zero from ida was whetn it was a hurricane down south, louisiana specifically is hurting. nearly a million are still without power there in scorching temperatures. we are told power could be out as long as a month. imagine that. 80, 90 degrees, 80%, 90% humidity, no ac, no toilet, n wa water, no electricity for weeks. rescue crews haven't even begun the job. they are not able to get to some of the hardest hit areas. we really have no idea who is trapped, who succumbed, who needs urgent help.
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we don't know yet. that story will evolve over at least the next seven to ten days. president biden is using the disasters to push congress on his plan to revitalize our nation's infrastructure. remind americans of the dire consequences of the climate crisis. >> the past few days of hurricane ida and the wildfires in the west and unprecedented flash floods in new york and new jersey is yet another reminder that these extreme storms and the climate crisis are here. we need to be better prepared. we need to act. >> people who roll their eyes about climate crisis, a lot of you are the same people who rolled your eyes at the vaccine, rolled your eyes at the pandemic. maybe it's time to straighten your eyes out and see what's in front of you. let's go live to the front lines of the latest disaster. we have pete in philly.
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we have miguel in new jersey. let's begin with miguel. dark there now. what's the situation? >> reporter: i want to show you where i'm standing. this is a wall i'm on top of. this has only become -- only able to get out here in the last 10, 15 minutes. i can show you how far this has come down. it has come down two inches. inch by inch, things are getting better in new brunswick. this is route 18, the memorial parkway. there is a lot of debris out there. there's a lot of water out there. the tide is going out. it's taking that water with it. it's really starting to drain quickly now. new jersey, like many places, is hurting. 23 lost their lives. there may be more out there. lots of people are missing. that may just be confusion from all of this. there may be other people they are looking for. we have seen emergency crews moving around this area and throughout new jersey looking
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for others who may be trapped, may be in cars like this, may be in homes, still looking. one problem that they had is they had the flash floods and tornadoes at the same time. as those it were warnings came in, people went to their basements. in some cases, may have been trapped in the basement as that water started to come in. in one place, there were four people killed in garden apartments when they flooded. it was that sort of just massive storm with tornadoes. tornadoes in new jersey. unheard of. that sort of stuff that just happened that it caught everybody off guard. still, we are waiting. the draining of the roadways is beginning. it's going to take a long time for not only the water to go but all of the debris with it before life starts to begin to feel like normal again here in new brunswick and across large areas
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of new jersey. chris? >> as you know in these situations, it happens in no time. it takes a lot of time to deal with what just happened. stay safe. thank you. let's go to pete in philly. you got a big water event there. again, it was a community that wasn't ready for this amount of strain ain this amount of time. >> reporter: you heard the term 100 year floods. it's a once in every 500 year flood in philly. which is not out of the woods. one of the most dramatic images. this is the vine street express di expressway. the water has been rising here all day. it has come down a little bit. some kayakers have been out here. they came back and they tell me they were able to put their ore in the water. it's halfway between the bottom
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of the expressway and the bottom of the 21st street overpass. things are improving here because of the massive pumping operation taking place. this scratches the surface of the amount of flooding in the philly region. the schuylkill crested at 17 feet. it has come down some. the waters are receding. the national weather service says it will not be below flood stage until after midnight, which is why the floor warning persists until 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. some of the most serious flooding in bridgeport. one person died. governor tom wolf says there were 500 calls for water rescues in montgomery county alone. a big monetary toll as well. millions, tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions just to clean this up. no official estimate yet. also, the cost of what it will
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be to beef up this infrastructure. something called climate resilience. two words you will hear a lot of. >> even bridges like that, i'm sure the water is below it, but there's so much strain on the concrete and the formation of it. i know you know this. those kayakers, you can pretend it's a river. but that ain't clean water. people should be safe. >> reporter: it's not. it's not the best idea to be out here. >> that storm sewage. it's runoff from different kinds of septics. stay safe and thank you. let us know what we need to know. i want to talk to an official from one of the hardest hit areas in new york. saw 14 feet of water. the place is called mamarinack. it sits along the long island sound. the mayor is it tom murphy. do you have you? >> you do. thank you for having me on. >> thank you for taking the
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time. i know you have pressing ma matters. what made this different? >> we have been through a lot of floods. this one was stronger in intensity and larger in extent. the usual places that flood flooded at a higher level than before. areas that never got water before, homes where basements never got wet were full of water. the rain came down sometimes at a pace of three inches per hour. i had never seen it rain that hard before. we have been through a lot of storms up here. our police, our ems, fire, dpw, parks workers, municipal employees have pitched in. with the help of god, we have not had a fatality. we had over 100 water rescues. we have over 1,000 people displaced, either with friends or at our red cross shelter.
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the red cross has been amazing. i can't thank them enough. >> we heard reported that there had been 150 people rescued so far. obviously, you have to check all the areas, see who is trapped. it's very difficult with communications. let me ask you something, mr. mayor. obviously, please believe this is said with zero judgment. was there something about this that didn't match what was expected? obviously, everybody was taken by surprise by its extent. that's why so many were on the roads. what was it about this that was not expected? >> you know, i think it was just the intensity of the rain over such a short period. we had a big storm i think it was last week. the ground was saturated. the rivers were still high. there's two rivers that flow through. there's a confluence at columbus
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park where they immediate. th that's where the trouble starts. once it overtops the banks of the river there, it's a very low lying area. that area floods really quickly. of course, unfortunately, that is the area where the people are less economically able to recover, less resilient. that seems to be the way it happens in this world. isn't it? the people who have the most -- the least lose the most. we are working really hard to help them recover. i know the community will pitch in. what was different yesterday was the incredible intensity of the rain and the saturation of the ground. >> too much, too soon. we will do this, mr. mayor. as you get a sense of what's needed in that community, feel free, you have an open line to me. let me know what it is. i will put it on social media. if the need is great enough it warrants coverage, we will do it on the show.
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let me know what you need. i wish you well. >> thank you. one thing we do need. we need the federal government to enact the army corps of engineer plan that has been promised for over 15 years. we were close to having it enacted under the trump administration. at the last minute, they pulled the rug out from under us. i'm hoping president biden and the elected officials can get the ball over the goal line. the people of this community deserve it. >> let it be heard. let it be done. mayor murphy, thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. have a good evening. let's look at this from the meteorological perspective. if you average out the rain totals, just in new york city, we got 35 billion gallons of water. the key part? in five hours. a lot of places can tolerate things over time. if you mix saturated ground -- we had so much rain. right? that much rain in a short amount
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of time, that winds up being the real powerful brew. you are looking at queens. this is where i was last night. bus riders stood on top of their seats as the water rose inside the bus. the driver kept his cool and got them through. i got a queens family here who lost a lot last night. they are scared about what is next. they weren't ready for anything like this. how could they be? their story next. and here. which is why the scientific expertise that helps operating rooms stay clean now helps the places you go too. look for the ecolab science certified seal. without my medication, my small tremors would be extreme. i was diagnosed with parkinson's. i had to retire from law enforcement. it was devastating. one of my medications is three thousand dollars per month. prescription drugs do not work
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>> speaking for so many people in queens and the surrounding metropolitan new york area. she's going to join us now with her husband. they are in queens, new york. it's where i grew up. i know their area well. it's not set up for this kind of flooding. it doesn't see this. to have water that practically swallowed cars and in just an hour or so. this is the inside of their home that we were showing you before. i mean, just horrible. look, thank god they are here. losing everything you have -- look at this. the money. the time. the help that it takes just to clean it out, let alone rebuild. however, she's about to tell you that she's one of the lucky ones. two of her neighbors who lived across the street, they were taken in this storm. it's a very tight-knit community.
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thank you both for joining us right now. i know things are very difficult. where have you gotten in terms of kind of dealing with what to do next? >> thank you, chris, for having us. we appreciate it very much. we are at a loss. the word is loss. we don't know. for the first time, i don't know where to begin. i've known where to start in the past. now the story has changed forever. we have lost a son. we have lost a sister. this is -- i cannot comprehend. the emotions here. i can speak for everyone. there's only sadness. it's just overwhelming. where we are is that we have to start from scratch as we are
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mourning. we have to see how we can move on in the most graceful way here. because this is -- if you see the situation here, it's very unsafe, very unlivable. death is upon us. this is how i see us. we would like to see the p promises made today by the governor, the mayor, the senators, all the city agencies to be fulfilled immediately as was said. president biden has declared a state of emergency here. we will see immediate help, which we have not seen except for local officials coming out and rendering some assistance with some dumpsters. that is all we have seen. community just bringing us food, stuff to clean up. that's all we have seen from new york city agencies. nothing from them at this point. we have to clean up.
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there is mud. there is soil of everything on every kind of -- in every which way you can think of. i cannot describe it, chris, to you. the pictures speak for themselves. it's too overwhelming. we need manpower. everyone is exhausted and overwhelmed, like i said. the emotions are running really, really high. we are weary and tired. no one has slept since yesterday. no one has eaten. we do not have gas. we do not have kitchens. we do not have hot water. the list just goes on. we want this federal aid to come to us now. tomorrow can't come fast enough. it should have been here today. something, somehow. we can wait for tomorrow just hoping it gets here. >> when you think about how you made it through last night, when did you realize how extreme the
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situation was? >> chris, i pay very keen attention to the weather. it's mayhem when it starts to flood. i pay a lot of attention to the weather. i alert my neighbors. this sexis exactly what i did yesterday. i was paying keen attention to ida. i saw what ida was doing and slamming these other states. as i was following it, i see how closely it was going to get to new jersey and new york. i started alerting my neighbors. i literally leave my house, because i suffer from panic attacks. i was once trapped in a house already. i suffer from serious panic attacks when the water starts to fill up. so i started to pack my bag. a lettered my and i alerted my daughter and my husband. my husband stays back to brace
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it all. the community comes out. i have been so, so damaged, traumatized that i can't handle it. i go up the block to my sister-in-law who is standing here or my brother-in-law or neighbors, because i can see from there when the water starts to rise. as i left, the rain started to pour. i start -- i called my husband and neighbors and tell them they have to leave. before he could have gotten out the house, the entire -- there was 12 feet of water already. all the cars were sub amesubmer. i was facetiming with everybody. they were showing me how the water is coming up. it's not going. the rain just kept falling harder and harder. that's when i was alerted that we were getting scuba divers in and emergency management. thank god to the nypd here to
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supervise. there was chaos here. it was chaos. it was like a war zone. it looks like a war zone, even though there's cleanup. >> let me ask and bring in your husband, where do you go from here? what do you need right now? are you able to stay in your own home? >> yes, we can stay in our home. we need some help right now. we need manpower. we need money. money is the most important thing. we need to get contractors to help us clean up, start fixing stuff that is broken in the house. we have been doing this for a while on our own. we are not getting financial aid or help from the city. all we are going to do is try to clean up whatever we can do. we are going to move on from here. we are not going to give up that easy. this is not the only place we experience this flooding. we need a lot of help in this
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neighborhood. over the years, we have been neglected. i came here in 2003. since 2003 to 2021, we are getting flooding. nothing is being done. we have several projects that were completed in this block. it's not resolving the issue we have. >> i was saying to people, i grew up in queens. i grew up not far from where you are. flooding has always been an issue. the area has never been set up to deal with a lot of water very quickly. same things happens with snow in the winter. >> yeah, that's correct. >> yet, you guys, as bad as it was, when you think about what happened to your neighbors across the street, that frightening prospect and they are now gone, how do you deal with that emotionally? >> chris, i am so devastated. i can't wrap my head around this. i thought i would be the one drowning in that house because
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of -- i have sound alarms so many times, i cannot tell you. i explained it. i told the city, you need to come out here and see what's going on. don't come when the water receded so you don't understand it. the emotions that i feel right now, i don't even have words to tell you how i feel. i feel that could have been me. that could have been my daughter or my other neighbor's daughter. we are like a family here. this flood brought us so close together. this loss is so huge for us. it's extensive. we have been on the streets. nobody has gone into their houses because we cannot comprehend what is going on here. we just lost a kid and his mother just like that? this is not acceptable. this was not supposed to happen. this is like murder. >> chris -- >> yes, sir. last word to you. >> you know, the city has come
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around so many times. every time there's a flood, the city shows up. all the politicians come around with them. they do a lot of talking. they have all the media with them. when they leave, that's the end of the story. nothing happens. absolutely nothing happens. >> i hear you. that's why i wanted you on tonight. >> we have to fend for ourselves. we have to frienend for ourselv >> you have to speak for yourselves. that's what you are doing. you don't have to fend for yourselves. that's why you have government, leaders. this is about them and their job. i understand your frustration. it's not the first time. now you lost people who you care about. you don't think it was necessary. i hear you. that's why i want you on to milwaumake your case. i'm going to put up the go fund me page for your family.
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okay? i'm going to put it out on social media. god bless and good luck. thank you. we will stay in touch to find out how you are doing. okay? >> thank you. >> thank you, chris. >> good night. listen, i understand it, why they feel the way they feel right now. you don't know the neighborhood. it's very tight, ethnic. this happens a lot. not like this. not like this. but if a place was going to get hit hard, it would be this place. what does that mean? you can see what they think about in terms of accountability, let's see what happens. we will monitor them. we will have updates as with all the aspects of the storm. we will stay on the breaking news of the disaster. i want to stay focused on what is happening in other big fights. a couple of things that are seen as prospec pective is right now. the supreme court just released
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an order saying that it would not stand in the way of texas basically, practically making reproductive rights unavailable to women when it comes to abortion. that's what they just did. the supreme court didn't stop it. might they stop it in the future? yes. but they didn't stop it now. that tells you everything. what will women there face now because of what texas did and what the supreme court did not do? we will talk to a doctor who performed abortions there. what the reality is, what this could mean for people next.
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a lot of people worried about the rights of people in afghanistan. in america, you can worry about what's happening with women's rights right here. fight over the future of roe versus wade. texas is feeling the effect. dr. alison gilbert is the medical director at the southwestern women's surgery center. she performs abortions in dallas and knows the situation. thank you for joining me. the idea of six weeks, heartbeat at six weeks, does that even exist in science? is there a heart at six weeks?
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>> first, thank you for having me on this evening, chris. that's a great question. at six weeks, that's when we can often times detect what we call cardiac activity. while there is most certainly not a fully formed heart at that gestational age. it's more of an electric flicker that you can see on screen, which we refer to cardiac activity rather than a heartbeat as many of the propoe nents thi law like to refer to it as, the texas heartbeat bill. >> they call it the heartbeat bill because it pulls on your heartstrings. it m makes you think person. how many women come in and find out they are pregnant and they are close to or more than six weeks pregnant? >> the vast majority.
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looking back through our records for the last few years in anticipation of this, we have seen that only about 10% to 15% of our patients would be eligible for an abortion under this restrictive law. >> you had procedures -- i have to be honest. i don't like describing you as a doctor who does abortions. i'm putting a target on you when it's supposed to be just another procedure. i was talking to another doctor today on my radio show. she was like, listen, you need to be telling people, do you know how many pregnancies we end for medical reasons, do you know how hard it is on the body, how many pregnancies fail? you are making it sound like it's an option like it's contra contraception. that's not the reality. do you see that as well? >> i see abortion as health care, as normal health care that is a part of reproductive
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person's right. anyone capable of becoming pregnant should have a right to abortion. that's how i see it. in my mind, while saying i'm an abortion provider, i'm a doctor who provides abortion, i'm quite proud of that. you are welcome to call me that. >> i'm saying, you do a lot of things. that's one thing that you do. i understand absolutely. i'm not saying it as a scarlet letter. i didn't want to limit you and try to play to controversy. the idea of why pregnancies are ended, the concept is, you need this law because women just use this like contraception. they don't have to have it. there's nothing wrong with any of these things. all these babies would have been perfect and they kill them for no good reason. in your experience, what comes through these operating rooms in terms of why the abortions are necessary? >> we see patients for a vast, vast list of reasons.
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that could be anywhere from having other children that they need to care for. it could be someone with medical co-morbidities. the pregnancy puts their life at risk. there are some medical conditions that have upwards of a 30% risk of mortality in the setting of continuing a pregnancy. there are patients who are in poverty, who don't have the financial means to continue their pregnancy and choose to parent. there are patients diagnosed with fetal anomalies, which doesn't occur until well into the second trimester. for all of the reasons and many, many more, we care for these patients. we see these patients every day. >> what happens now? >> that's a great question. we are keeping our clinic doors open in any way we can. we are complying with the restrictive laws that are now in front of us. we knew that this was likely a reality. we have been planning for this.
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it's devastating. it's heart wrenching to have conversations with patients who present to us either unaware of the law or aware of the law but right on the cusp of six weeks. we detect cardiac activity. we have to tell them we can to longer provide them the health care they have the right to. >> i appreciate your frankness, i appreciate your experience in this situation. thank you for taking this opportunity. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> we will be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ deposit, plan and pay with easy tools from chase. simplicity feels good. chase. make more of what's yours.
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the white house says there are about 100 americans left in afghanistan. i don't know if that number is right. i don't know where they get it. that's the number. we know that they say that a majority of the afghans who worked alongside our military were left behind. if you have been watching the show, you know we have been following. one person in particular, sara, we have been using her for a metaphor of the movement. she's an american. she was an interpreter. her life is in danger every
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second she's in afghanistan. so far, she and so many others can't even get anyone with the state department on the phone. they have been lucky. sara has been lucky. she was able to turn to veterans who have been putting to the what you see online called #digitaldunkirk. they are working with allied extract and folks like my next guest to find ways out of afghanistan for these people. let's find out about sara and a new question. is the state department trying to stop the work of these veterans who are helping people like sara? if so, why? harvey graham green joins us now. welcome. thank you for what you are doing. >> thank you very much for having me. >> first, let's start with sara. what do you know about her status? >> sara is safe. her and her children are safe. we are continuing to do everything that we can as a group to keep it that way.
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for operational reasons, i can't go deeper as of now. we are doing everything we can to keep her and the children safe. they are currently safe. >> last thing i want to do is compromise her safety. harvey, help me with this. i know this can be sensitive. it's less sensitive for you because you don't have u.s. reservists restrictions on you, fears of the chain of command. i have heard several accounts now from these ngos and these types like you that you are doing logistics, raising money, getting people, getting them some place, staging to take them out, then you are being told you can't by some government agency, the department of state, faa, something else. is that true? >> yeah. you are absolutely correct. the fact that i'm on here tonight to speak to this, one of our u.s. combat veterans was due to come on. due to pressure from his chain of command, he asked me to come on.
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i'm more impartial. at this point, we are a group linked together by people like dan rodgers. we are achieving the impossible. we have aircraft available. something we couldn't have dreamed by five weeks ago. the issue at this point is we need somewhere to land this aircraft. charter flights coming out of afghanistan, it's not a new thing. but it is an emerging situation. we need somewhere to land the aircraft. the state department are not only blocking that, but they are also putting into place other restrictions such as placing cease and desist orders on ngos. as it stands with everything we have done, with everything that our people on the ground are achieving, doing the impossible every day, the last piece we need to put in place, the thing stopping sara from coming home, is the fact that the state department will not give us anywhere to land our charter. >> let me let you hear what the state department said about this
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today. >> we understand the concern that many are feeling as they try to facilitate charters and other forms of passage out of afghanistan. the fact of the matter now is that we do not have personnel on the ground. we do not have air assets in the country. we do not control the airspace, whether over afghanistan or anywhere else in the region. >> does that work for you? >> i mean, the first callout here is the fact if they fulfilled their promise and got everybody out, this wouldn't be a conversation we are having. in terms of security, there are plenty of u.s. air field in the region where these aircraft can land and the passengers can be screened safely, get a night's sleep without fear and can come home where they belong in the u.s.
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i understand why the security is a concern. flights out of any region which has an active isis presence or any localized terrorist group, that's a threat we see across the region. that is not in itself reason enough to stop flying american citizens out that we have left -- the state department has left in afghanistan. >> have you had any indication that things will change in terms of your ability to get sara out? >> we have had no indication that there is any willingness from the state department. workarounds that have been looked into by our partners, landing in third kucountries, permits have been denied. a source in the state department said that is due to pressure applied by the state department. >> harvey, as i said to everybody i have been working with, one, it's not like you are a bunch of nobodies. almost all of you have an aspect of military intelligence work, veterans work where you understand the processing and
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you know these people involved. it's not like you are coming at this blind. you have my number. i will be always a text away or a call away. we are going to put pressure on the state department starting yesterday. thank you very much. good luck with your work. >> thank you, chris. thank you for the support. >> absolutely. somebody has to do it. i'm going to go to break on this. people in the government, i know you are listening. this is one of those situations where when these situations -- not if -- go bad and people were waiting and it can be traced back to you, not doing something because you don't have the process, because it doesn't fit how you usually do things, you will regret it. we will be right back. ah, there's no place like panera. enjoy the toasty, saucy chipotle chicken avocado melt on freshly baked bread. panera. order on the app today.
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like the killing of ahmaud a arbery. it's almost two years now this case is finally going to trial. and now beyond the men charged in his death the former local prosecutor whonentialally declined to press charges has been indicted herself. we can't let these cases fall aside so let's bring in lee merit who's representing the ar arbery family. were you surprised by the indictment and what does it mean for you in the overall sense of justice? >> i've never seen a prosecutor who failed to bring charge, who helped actively participate in the cover-up of misconduct indicted criminally themselves. what this means for us first is a signaling to other prosecutors that they are not forthcoming with the evidence, that they somehow participate or put their finger on the scale of justice that they can face consequences
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themselves. but for the family who you have to know this happened who you've had on the show many times, that's who they went to. she was left in the dark for 72 days, and so this was a big relief to her because she was as offended by that as she was by the murder of her son. >> also the idea of what do you believe the prosecution will show? >> the prosecution will show the question is in regards to the mcmichaels or jackie johnson? >> jackie johnson, the d. a. >> what was presented to the grand jury was first evidence she had a relationship with mcmichael that immediately became involved in the case.
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instead of opting out and said she had a conflict she called the subsequent prosecutor, george barnhill, and began to discuss and get his advice on the case before ultimately referring the case to him without disclosing to anyone she had referenced him for the case or he too had a conflict concerning gregory mcmichael. and so the prosecution will show she violated her oath of office, that ahmaud arbery and his family wasn't given a fair shake at justice because she put her thumb on the scale by using the relationships she had developed over time. >> understood. we'll keep following the situation. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. ♪ ♪
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