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Vicente Gonzalez: “It took us six weeks, I think, to get them out of…”

Featuring: Vicente Gonzalez, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 34

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Congressman Gonzalez Recollects on Saving Six U.S. Allies During Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Published | Video Starts at 04:30

And there was. I mean, there was no pathway to get them back into the country or anywhere else. To make a long story short, It took us six weeks, I think, to get them out of Uzbekistan. And then they went to Tajikistan and Qatar and eventually made it all back to the United States. (04:30–04:34)

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Asserts that it took six weeks to get the Afghan pilots out of Uzbekistan.

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