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0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...

0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of t...

0 >> thank you, senator. youre right, the tempo upped significantly, the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engage the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troop, and further stiffen their defenses. to no avail. to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military, and this created ...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement...

0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agree...

Then you have how is the biden administration doing in terms of competent and effective management of government. 51% say yes. 45% say no. we have numbers that are even worse than that when it comes to the presidents ability to manage well. are you concerned at this point about the president and how hes doing? >> im not at all. those numbers are positive. the build back better agenda according to the fox news poll has plus 17 support. theres other polls that show greater support. so as long as t...

A statute, which is a haw of the united states that individuals -- a law of the united states that individuals can make a claim of fear of persecution by reason of their membership in a particular social group. thats what the law provides. this -- we are certainly seeing a large number here in this year, but in 2019 we saw a large number, in 2014, in 2010. this is nothing new. it spans many, many years, it spans different administrations of both parties, and it speaks to the need for legislative...

>> i would, bill. look, i think there were a loft experts that never bought into the theory that there was a new taliban. they knew they would return to their brutality at some point and werent surprised they took over afghanistan again. the speed with which they did was surprising but for four administrations they had been taking back territory. a lot of people werent surprised by this. morgan is right that our leverage is only good so far as the chinese and russians or pakistanis or others don...

How the different administrations throughout your reporting have dealt with wikileaks in terms of how they handle the sod and the head of the organization. obama had self imposed restriction, trump declared that he loved wikileaks but also seem to be taking a harder stance based on what youve been reporting. where do you see president biden fall over the next three years on the issue of julian has hodge and weak links? >> well its a good question because lets remember, the married garlic by the ...

Done. but these never got forwarded to the white house. you think there were a sort of pretty quick realization that, you know, wow, we cant do that. on the other hand, the abduction, the natch operations that mike pam poi was pushing for did get to the white house and did provoke these internal debates within the trump administration that we document in the piece. i mean, this was one of the more contentious intelligence debates of the trump presidency and it was all done in secret. the public ...