mr. sullivan: two things about that. first, the earliest evacuation flights in any evacuation tend not to have every seat filled, because the process of getting any evacuation underway has a throughput issue. we believe that is being resolved with each successive flight and we will be putting 300 passengers on your average military cargo plane heading out of the country, one out of the other, hot on loading and offloading. second, by and large, we have found people have been able to get to the airport. in fact, large numbers of people have been able to get to the airport and present themselves. there have been instances where we have received reports of people being turned away or pushed back or even beaten. we are taking that up in a channel with the taliban to try to resolve those issues. we are concerned about whether that will continue to unfold in the coming days. as things stand right now, what we are finding is that we are getting people through the gate, we are getting them lined up, getting them on planes, but t

mr. sullivan: can you repeat the question? >> what is the status of the afghan security forces and the u.s. relationship with them? mr. sullivan: the afghan security forces appear to have essentially, you know, no longer operate as a coherent entity. they essentially have given way to taliban physical security control over the major population centers. yes. >> a question on -- respect the rights of afghan women. what tools does the u.s. have to hold them to this pledge? and if not, what does the u.s. plan to do? mr. sullivan: so standing here today, i am not going to go into the full panoply of things we can do, but there are obviously issues related to sanctions, to marshaling international condemnation and isolation, and other steps as well, but the reason i don't want to go into great detail on it is i want to be able to have our team indicate directly to the taliban -- team communicate directly to the taliban what the costs and disincentives are for certain types of action and what our conversations are. that is a conversa

mr. sullivan proposes an amendment numbered 3626. mr. sullivan: madam president, my amendment would withhold american taxpayers support to the united nations human rights council until the department of state certifies that no members of the organization are state sponsors of terrorism and the treasury department reports on the prevalence of american-sanctioned countries within the organizations. right now cuba which is designated by the state department as a state sponsor of terrorism serves on the u.n. human rights council alongside authoritarian regimes and human rights abusers russia and communist china. recently the biden administration asked this very flawed international organization to investigate our own country's record on human rights. this is an outrage and the congress should respond by defunding the human rights council until all of its member countries actually respect human rights. i urge my colleagues to support my amendment. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from new jersey. mr. menend

mr. sullivan: first, we are in touch with the afgns at risk eligible for special visas and other categoriesort from the u.s. government. we are trying to get as many of them tthe airport as quickly as possible to get them on flights home, and as i said yesterday in comments on the sunday shows, we will continue to get afghans at risk out of the country even after u.s. military forces have left. anchor: let's hear more from our chief correspondent, lyse doucet. lysee: i have spent hours there, and i can tell you, at every single gate, there is a crush of people desperate to get in to try and get on a flit to anywhere in the world, even though this is such a painful time. so many of the people that we met broke down in tears. this has happened also suddenly. also shockingly, they do not want to leave. their lives are here. but they feel if they ever had an idea for themselves or their children to leave, this is the moment, and when that window shuts, it may shut forever for them. anchor: and, lyse, we have a looming deadline and now the taliban saying this has to be finished by august 31. tho

we're not entirely sure we didn't anticipate this . 5 but in addition to that, we did hear mr. sullivan emphasize how much he cares about the afghan women. this is what he said truly deeply. my heart goes out to ask in women and girls in the country today under the telephone. so amid confusion, as the global community looks on, the situation in afghanistan has a lot of questions for us. leaders about what they did know and didn't know and what's going to happen in the future. i'm sure everyone is totally reassured by these answers that have just been provided by washington. officials, watson for people whose job is to answer questions from the press. they didn't seem to be doing too good a job that was kind of open reporting from new york many thanks. almost 20 years of u. s. involvement in afghanistan has taken a heavy toll on millions of people. it's also not been coined to american taxpayers about to foot the bill of one of the country's most expensive rules in history. we take a look at the extraordinary cost of the campaign. on my orders near the united states military has begun st

opec and its allies did recently agreed to increase production by 400 barrels a day but mr sullivan said global recovery, this is simply not enough. the move comes as the biden administration has tried to push back on inflation concerns. inflation remained high in july but showed some signs of easing as the recovery from the pandemic continues and supply problems remain. mr biden has also been criticised over his energy policy by republicans who say he has put environmental interests above those of oil and gas companies. janet mui is investment director at brewin dolphin in london. welcome and good to see you as ever. let's start with those record highs on wall street, what is your analysis?- what is your analysis? good morning. — what is your analysis? good morning, samantha. - what is your analysis? good morning, samantha. yes, l what is your analysis? good morning, samantha. yes, i| what is your analysis? good - morning, samantha. yes, ithink the financial markets are very relieved at the inflation report because it shows that inflation is indeed showing signs of being temporary in na

mr. sullivan, the u.s. national security advisor. seen often these last few days.is a movable feast in afghanistan. this crisis continues. joe matthew has followed this. i cannot say enough about the effort and mr. matthew driving it forward. joe, thank you so much for joining us. john hudson changes the debate this morning. that director of the cia traveled to kabul and met with that guy. why is it such a big deal that the cia director, our most decorated diplomat, is sitting down with a leader of the taliban? joe: it certainly tells us how the world has changed. in afghanistan, he was arrested by the cia years ago. now they are meeting in the same room. it all has to do with the deadline that is one week from today. we have thousands more to evacuate. there is not pushed to extend that deadline. orest johnson is going to ask -- apparently going to ask joe biden to do that. the virtual g7 is where this comes to ahead. can we get everybody out? we are getting better at this. 11,000 were evacuated in 12 hours yesterday. tom: joe is working a six-hour date. i do not

mr. sullivan to secure an elementary school.y, to get kids out of a elementary school let get thousands of americans unknown number of americans out of a country like afghanistan. i mean -- but these are the most experienced people ever, isn't that when nancy pelosi assured us? the most experienced team we have had in washington? >> that's right, laura, 12,000 estimated americans, jake sullivan does not know, but around 12,000 estimated americans that are still in afghanistan and this has not been widely recorded, but another part of that press conference with jake sullivan was that they aren't prioritizing americans, afghanistan to get them out first. why would americans not to be prioritized to get them out of the country where they can't even get to the airport. they don't know who to call. my office is receiving phone calls from americans and others in afghanistan who have no idea what to do, where to go, because our embassy has been vacated. there is no plan at all to get american safely out of afghanistan and to responsibl

mr. sullivan talks about the financial advantage the economic advantage to bribe these people to do the right the president was very emphatic about taking action against isis-k to kill 13 americans on thursday but remember it is the taliban who is responsible for the deaths of most americans of the last 20 years be he has the attitude we will send a drone strike at isis-k but bribe the taliban to do the right thing even we know for fact certain the department of defense ig said over the last year three times they have said they continue to work and in glove with al qaeda and also know they have violated apparently a secret part of the trump administration agreement not to attack all those capitals there under liable so the ada to bribe them to be friends is ridiculous. chris: as people focus on afghanistan the terror threat has metastasized across asia and africa and in a lot of places that he thinks or contends in a much greater or threatening way than it is in afghanistan but the taliban was able to release thousands according to the pentagon thousands of al qaeda and isis-k prisoners is no

mr. sullivan, good morning to you. thanks for being with us >> thanks for having me. >> let's talk about the status of the evacuation going on at this hour. how many evacuees are left to go when do you expect this to be completed? >> well, first, savannah, i want to salute the skill and professionalism of the u.s. military who has now completed the drawdown of the u.s. embassy compound in kabul. all u.s. diplomates and civilian personnel have been removed from that facility and we're down to a very small civilian presence at the airport that is organizing an effort to ensure that we get out remaininn american citizens as well as afghans at risk, and we are in the process of trying to fully secure the airport and execute that set of evacuation flights which will proceed over the coming days. >> mr. sullivan, friends and foes alike are calling this withdrawal a fiasco, a debacle, and it is one that apparently the administration did not fully appreciate or see coming let me play you some of what the president himself has

mr. sullivan who is now a national security advisor, to be fair, vice president biden of the whole seniorership of the obama administration was the one who really rai the issue of corruption very early. i guess i would just say once again that it doesn't just matter what you do come in matters how you do it. i fear president biden has constantly had a sort of on/off switch approach to afghanistan. it is all or nothing. i just think situations like this require much more tailored engagement. again, let's remember, there were two wars going on and there was an economic meltdowthat was about to sort of crater the world economy. one country and one presidential administration cannot handle that many complex problems and the results make that clear. amy: thank you for being on and we will ask you to come back soon. sarah chayes, covered the fall of the tell been 20 years ago and when not to run a soap factory for years. later became special advisor to the joint chiefs of staff mike mullen. her latest book, "on corruption in america -- and what is at stake." next up, we go to greece to speak wi

mr. sullivan said in the course of that was that the taliban leadership had offered a guarantee. i'm not sure anybody thought from the first moment that that would apply or how disciplined the taliban leadership was at command over the people who are working for it. this is the key problem that grows out of the assumption that we have more time than we did. a week ago the united states still had the ability to sort of make its way around the city some because the city was in the hands of a friendly government. at this moment we don't have that liberty so we can't send people out to help pluck americans from wherever they may be. the guarantees of the taliban, as kylie's report suggests, aren't worth very much. so we don't have a whole lot of leverage here. now, the administration will say accurately that two weeks ago they sent out a warning urging all americans in afghanistan to depart immediately on commercial flights. and clearly 10,000 to 15,000 people decided not to go do that. i think one of the big questions is going to be was that warning urgent enough, did there have to

mr. sullivan talked about the financial advantage we have, the economic advantage.to bribe these people, the taliban, to do the right thing. i noticed the president was very emphatic about taking action against isis-k to kill 13 americans on thursday, but remember, if the taliban who is largely responsible for the vast bulk of american deaths of the last 20 years yet his administration seems to have the energy that we are going to send a drone strike at isis-k but we are going to bribe the taliban to do the right thing. even though we know for fact certain that the department of defense ig has said -- three times the ig has said they continue to work hand in glove with al qaeda and we also know that they have violated what is apparently a secret part of the trumpet ministrations agreement not to attack 34 provincial capitals. they have all those capitals in their hands right now so they are unreliable in the idea of we are going to be able to bribe them to be friends of ours is ridiculous. >> chris: juan, the president is at pains to stay that look, the terror threa

mr. sullivan, welcome to "meet the press." >> thanks for having me. >> i want to start with the securityuation around the airport in kabul. it appears to be deteriorating. there's now a threat from isis, terror attacks against americans. is the administration considering sending more troops to try to secure the perimeter and secure the area? >> at the moment we believe we have sufficient forces on the ground, but every single day the president asks his military commanders, including those at the airport and those at the pentagon whether they need additional resource, additional troops. so far the answer has been no. he'll ask again today. >> how many americans have trying to get out of afghanistan? this has been a question you've been asked numerous times, and we haven't known the answer. on this sunday morning, do we know the answer? >> well, we know that it's roughly a few thousand, chuck. let me explain to the american people why we don't exactly know. because when people come to afghanistan who are american citizens, we ask them to register with the u.s. embassy. many leave and never

mr. sullivan going on television and basically blaming the military for the president's decision.e president's decision that brought us to this point. the president limited the number of troops that the military had available. said this is what you can use. it is enough to either do bagram or kabul. not both. you decide. he is ultimately responsible for the decision to give up bagram by doing so and our inability to say yes to the taliban and take control of kabul. it is amazing. think about that. the taliban says you can hold onto kabul and evacuate or we'll have to take and establish order in the town, which is it going to be? because he, the president, has limited the number of american troops on the ground and refused to give them more, we end up where we are. >> dana: to that point, i want to read from the "wall street journal" the wreck of mr. biden as afghanistan withdrawal but harms his credibility and america's when he refuses to acknowledge mistakes. he should take responsible for his own bad decisions instead of hiding behind the military brass. here is mark milley and

mr. sullivan and get an idea where things stand right now. >> these are reasonable questions.pplicants and their families, but the afghan government and its supporters, including many of the people now seeking to leave, made a passionate case that we should not conduct a mass evacuation unless we trigger a loss of confidence in the government. now, our signaling support for government obviously did not save the government but this was a considered judgment. when you conclude 20 years of military action in a civil war in another country, with the impacts of 20 years of decisions that have piled up, you have to make a lot of hard calls. none with clean outcomes. what you can do is plan for all contingencies. we did that. the american forces now on the ground are there because of contingency planning and drill ing, we did over the course of months. preparing for a range of scenarios including dire scenarios. president biden ordered multiple battalions to be pre-positioned in theatre and he activated them for deployment before the fall of kabul. he also put additional battalion s

senator sullivan. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to follow up on senator sullivan's first question about cleanup. specifically regarding superfund cleanup. i appreciate your focus that tribes are often left behind in the superfund cleanup process. like alaska, native corporation, many tribes in arizona have struggled for decades of funding in the superfund process. for example, they're more than 500 abandoned uranium lines on the navajo nation. behalf of the tribal leaders and commitments from federal leaders who work to clean up these sites, only four sites, only four out of 500 are currently undergoing remediation in large part because for many sites it is been impossible to locate a responsible party to pay. can you expand upon your testimony so why the existing process used by epa for prioritizing superfund cleanup sites may put tribes at a disadvantage? >> in terms of the super fund programs for contaminated cleanup. we have to work directly that native village or the community to receive those funds. we can do a partners

mr. sullivan: madam president, i want to thank senator portman for his outstanding work, all the great work that he is doing on this bill. with senator sinema and others. i'm hopeful that we can get some of these amendments, bipartisan amendments on the infrastructure bill on to the floor. i know my colleague, senator hagerty, is going to work on that here in a minute. i support what he is trying to do. i have an amendment, for example, that's very bipartisan. it would help all the tribes in america, alaska native tribes, lower 48 tribes to simply get the authority to extend the spending of their original cares act money that they got in march of 2020. they just got authority to actually start spending it. all we want to do is extend the deadline. no additional money for anybody. i think every senator here supports it. these are some of the bipartisan amendments that we're debating. hopefully we're going to get votes on these. whether you're going to be for the bill or against the bill, it will improve the bill. i know mine would. senator cornyn has one i'm supportive of and cosponsoring. s

mr. jacobson, welcome, good evening. >> thank you, joshua. >> let me start by getting your reaction to the national security advisory, jake sullivan, said today on meet the press about evacuation effort. >> no plan survives first contact with reality. no plan can account for every contingency that occurs at a tactical level on the day-to-day basis. would you do is you adjust. and we have adjusted, and while we are continuing to face genuine challenges, we believe we are making progress. >> now, an adjustment could include adjusting the last day that evacuations will happen. president biden said in response to questions from reporters that he is considering, has not decided yet, but he is thinking about extending evacuations beyond the august 31st deadline for the military to leave. so, what is your read on how all of this is going right now? >> well, i think jake is actually dead wrong. plans are worthless. it is planning that is everything. and this administration never ran through a planning exercise. they never rehearsed the concept, they never took a look at what the challenges would be. and now they are facing the results of that. we can

mr. yam does not know why the taliban fired into the crowd and we don't know how badly they were injured. jake sullivan, the president's national security adviser, was asked about such reports. he says they're taking it up in talks through a channel with the taliban. pentagon spokesman john kirby was also asked about it it. >> do those discussions with the taliban include talk about allowing americans or afghans through some of these taliban check points or even potentially expanding the perimeter around the airport so more people can get there safely? that's one of the things we're hear, is people can't get through these taliban checkpoints, they can't even get to the airport to leave. >> again, without going through the details of these communications of which i'm not a part, as i said there are interactions down at the local level. and as the general said, we are processing american citizens to get out. >> well, he did not get any more specific than that saying only, quote, the results are speaking for themselves, unquote. as for taliban promises today the amnesty for their one time opponents and co

mr. galli intends to bring up all components of his resolution to be debated fully. second, this is a that we just excrete -- this disaster is solely the responsibility of jacob sullivan, joe biden, antony blinken, and there military team. this was not a military failure. the chain of command was led by the state apartment. the troop levels were led by state department decisions, so when you saw bagram close, that was a joe biden decision. when you saw the troops in kabul , the decision was driven by the state department. they own this. not the military. when jake sullivan said the president met with military leaders and no one of hectic you it, that's a prevarication. in alabama, we call it lying. ask the secretary of defense. ask general milley or general mckenzie directly. i know the answer. joe biden, antony blinken, they can't share responsibility for this. this was not a military operation. the military was there in support. finally, we have to move forward with the terrible situation we have right now. what i asked this morning was we should inc. about options for the future for counterterrorism and isr capability. the fact is that now that we are out, we have

writes back to sir william sullivan and this is absurd and ridiculous and after martin king's march on washington address they immediately change their analysis. you know what, mr. hoover, you are right. he's the most dangerous knee grow in the world and we cannot count on, and this is key, and i wish that garrow would have cited this. we can no longer count on evidence that will stand up in a court of law or congressional committees in order to discredit martin luther king. we have to go beyond that sort of evidence. he doesn't mention, that and i think that that's really important that the fbi is aiming to find anything they can to discredit him including as i mentioned in my own work funneling and having ministers launder information about martin luther king as if he's a communist. when they said themselves they have no evidence of this. so one of the things that i think garrow could have done in the article was at least mention the broader background that the fbi has already decided, that they are not going to depend on evidence that will stand up in a court of law or before a congressional committee. the second thing i think he -- i wish he would have done

sullivan, and others, that this is a, this is ridiculous. and after martin kings washington march on washington address, that they immediately changed their analysis. you know, mr. hoover, you're right. he's the most dangerous negro in the world. and we cannot count on and -- this is key, and i wish that girl would have cited this, we can no longer count on evidence that would stand up in a court of law and congressional committees into discredit martin retaking. we have to go beyond that sort of evidence he. doesn't mention that. and i think that's really important that the fbi's him to find anything they can to discredit him including as i've mentioned in my own work funneling and having ministers launder information about martin luther king as if he is the communist, when they said themselves, they have no evidence of this. so one of the things i think they're a gerrell could have done in the article is at least mention the broader background that the fbi has already decided, that they're not going to depend on evidence that will stand up in a court of law or before congressional committees. the second thing i wish he would've done is put the fbi's surveilla

sullivan yesterday from the press briefing room at the white house. taking your phone calls as we continue to talk about afghanistan. michael in imperial beach, california. go ahead. caller: good morning, john. mrmalkasian, i would like host: your perspective. we are still trying to restore -- your perspective. host: we are still trying to restore the connection. but ask your question and i will make sure we get it to him. caller: for us, it is catholic and protestant, northern ireland. they believe in the same god but kill each other. i was wondering his perspective on the she, where they believe in the same god but they kill each other, they hate each other , and that is basically my question. and the men control over women. i was wondering his perspective on that. host: thanks for the questions. tom from california. you are next. caller: good morning. good morning, america. my question is this, i live in fresno, california and we have potholes. i live in california and we are drying out in water but we are spending billions of dollars in a landlocked country where they don't even have a 20 story building. everything they have obtained we built there. why don't we come home, we have killed os

mr. sullivan: mr. president. mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. mr. sullivan: mr. president i also urge the adoption of the wyden amendment when he's talking about forced labor but i want to point out one important issue. the amendment that we just voted on on my amendment, which bans the use of federal funds on renewable projects, critical minerals from all of china was opposed by the vast majority of the far left environmental groups in america. they want to be able to import these products from china even though we have them, we have the minerals. so there is a difference between the wyden amendment and the sullivan amendment. i urge its adoption, but let's not be fooled here. the far-left green agenda is to import products from china and not allow mining and critical mineral production in america. that's wrong. i'm glad my amendment just passed but i urge adoption of the wyden amendment as well. the presiding officer: the sponsor of the amendment has asked for a voice vote. all those in favor say aye. opposed, no. the amendment is adopted. a senato