'This Week' Transcript 8-22-21: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Sen. Joni Ernst & Adm. Mike Mullen

Secretary Lloyd Austin, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Sen. Joni Ernst and Adm. Mike Mullen were on "This Week" Sunday, August 22. This is a rush transcript and may be updated.

A rush transcript of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" airing on Sunday, August 22, 2021 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors. For previous show transcripts, visit the "This Week" transcript archive. AUSTIN: We're gonna try our very best to get everybody, every American citizen who wants to get out, out. And we've got -- we continue to look at different ways to -- in creative ways -- to reach out and contact American citizens and help them get into the airfield. RADDATZ: You said American citizens. What about those Afghans? What about those interpreters? What about the people who are desperately calling? AUSTIN: Absolutely the people that are in the Special Immigrant Visa program are very very important to us and these would be the interpreters and many of the staff that supported our embassy, and other embassies, by the way. We want to evacuate them as well.