{"id":658647,"date":"2021-08-18T13:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658647"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T17:35:27","slug":"i-dont-really-care-whether-the-president-wants-to-talk-with-me-democratic-congressman-calls-on-biden-to-get-allies-out-asap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-dont-really-care-whether-the-president-wants-to-talk-with-me-democratic-congressman-calls-on-biden-to-get-allies-out-asap\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Don\u2019t Really Care Whether The President Wants To Talk With Me\u2019: Democratic Congressman Calls On Biden To Get Allies Out ASAP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fi-dont-really-care-whether-the-president-wants-to-talk-with-me-democratic-congressman-calls-on-biden-to-get-allies-out-asap%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=658647&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-18-at-11.37.14-AM-e1629307065862.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton called on President Joe Biden to cut through bureaucracy and get American allies out of Afghanistan Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/06\/27\/moulton-racial-gerrymandering-stacey-abrams-defeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moulton<\/a>, a veteran himself, joined CNN\u2019s Poppy Harlow on Wednesday to discuss the State Department\u2019s efforts to get <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/18\/editor-daily-rundown-afghanistan-taliban-kabul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American citizens<\/a> and allies out of Afghanistan after the Taliban took control of the country. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/04\/28\/moulton-blasts-trump-american-hero-vietnam\/\">(RELATED: Moulton Blasts Trump: \u2018I\u2019d Like To Meet The American Hero That Went To Vietnam In His Place\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harlow asked how important it might be for the Biden administration to commit to staying past the Aug. 31 deadline if there were still American citizens or allies on the ground in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/white-house-evacuation-us-citizens-resident-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely imperative. They must make that commitment, and they must follow through. And this is a commitment I\u2019ve been asking them to make for months now when I told them to start the evacuation before we get to a point like this,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/07\/22\/dem-pelosi-replacement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moulton<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Harlow then shared a clip of Moulton in a June hearing on Capitol Hill, calling on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Gen. Mark Milley to fast track the Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) for Afghan interpreters and their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too late for the Special Immigrant Visa process. Secretary Austin, why have you not started an evacuation yet? These Afghan and American heroes, people who we asked to risk their lives, not just for Afghanistan, but for America because we had their backs,\u201d Moulton said at the time. \u201cTheir future is in your hands. And this much is certain. The Taliban will kill them if they can. And they will rape and murder their wives and kids first if they can. Chairman Milley, if the service chiefs were ordered to evacuate our allies today, is there a plan in place to get that started immediately?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Milley calls it a moral imperative. You call it a moral imperative. Have you had any response from the White House or the State Department to your call now to get them out and deal with the paperwork later?\u201d Harlow asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, essentially no,\u201d Moulton replied, pointing out that in addition to the problem of getting people safely on flights to the U.S., there was the added complication of those who were outside Kabul and couldn\u2019t safely get to the airport because of Taliban checkpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Moulton said that he did have faith the State Department would not leave allies behind in the country, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re the United States of America. If we can put a man on the moon, we can figure out how to get people out of Afghanistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you talked to the president since Sunday?\u201d Harlow pressed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have not. Look, I\u2019m not \u2014 I\u2019m not sitting here on TV and criticizing President Biden because I\u2019m trying to get attention or something. This is just the right thing to do,\u201d Moulton concluded. \u201cSo, I don\u2019t really care whether the president wants to talk with me or not. I just want him to execute this mission. I want him to get it right. And I want him to get it right because it\u2019s good politics, but more fundamentally, it up holds our values and it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton called on President Joe Biden to cut through bureaucracy and get American allies out of Afghanistan Wednesday.Moulton, a veteran himself, joined CNN\u2019s Poppy Harlow on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}