EXCERPT:
ROHDE: "I just spoke with the communications director of Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut. Right now, our 19 American citizens and their families, and 40 SIV holders and their families — those are the translators who worked with the United States military — that are waiting to fly out of Mazar-i-Sharif on those charter planes, that is being held up by the State Department and the White House. I want to repeat that. It is the State Department and the White House. I also heard that Sen. Blumenthal at a tractor parade today in western Connecticut had constituents complaining about how the Biden Administration is fumbling and failing in terms of helping these Afghans get out of the country. These are our allies and this is a growing political problem for President Biden that won't go away. He and Secretary Blinken must address it."