Antony Blinken actually said...

"I take responsibility. I know the president has said he takes responsibility. And I know all of my colleagues across government feel the same way."

"For the remaining roughly 1000 contacts that we had, who may be Americans seeking to leave Afghanistan, we`re aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day. There is no deadline on our work t..."

"They will not be forgotten. We certainly have points of incentive and points of leverage with a future Afghan government to help make sure that that happens."

"Based on our analysis, starting on August 14th when our operations began, there was a population as many as 6,000 American citizens in Afghanistan who wanted to leave."