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He did not work to tamp down the intelligence on the taliban? >> absolutely not. >> you can ask why are planes not taking off from mazar-e-sharif and how are people being vetted and what is the administrations approach to deal with the taliban. are they a terrorist organization? some senate democrats would rather focus on the past 20 years than the events that happened in august. senator chris murphy adding he hoped republicans dont turn this into a circus. dana, blinken will appear at this hear...

This rapid collapse laid bare a fundamental fact that successive administrations lied to the congress over the years about the durability of afghan military and governing institutions. and we need to understand why. the chaos of last august is due in large part to the february 2020 surrender deal negotiated by president trump. a deal that was clearly built on a set of lies. a deal that led to the release of 5,000 hardened taliban fighters, boosting the militant group on the battlefield this summ...

Hearings, im convinced now more than ever is that we need a 9/11 still commission. theres too much to investigate. if you think about the numbers in congress, its ten. five in each chamber. the armed services committees, foreign affair, foreign relations pertaining to which ever chamber youre talking about. the homeland security committees. the intelligence committees and the believe it or not, judiciary committees, which have jurisdiction over matters of immigration. this is going to get too un...

Keep the big election lie going and we have these sham audits spreading to other states as we speak. pennsylvania, wisconsin, texas and so what these partisan trump supporters are learning as a test run for future elections is what these state legislatures can do, and so while im very concerned about their rhetoric, about rigged election, there is a lot of action happening on the ground that deserves a lot of attention, concern and scrutiny to prepare for what is absolutely coming in 2022 and 24...

And so, while i am very -- um -- concerned about the rhetoric about rigged election, there is a lot of action happening on the ground that deserves -- um -- a lot -- a lot of attention. um, concern and scrutiny to prepare for what is absolutely coming in 2022. and 24. >> right on. i appreciate both of your comments and i want you both to stick around. preet and amanda. the fallout of the big lie now leading to the hollowing out of election administrations across this country. and some officials ...

Thats great. >> excuse me, sir, my understanding that house is not in session. >> im right here, secretary. we are here. >> shannon: kevin, did they reach conclusions on that? >> there are a couple of ways to look at that. yes, he was at the state department but this was a head back-to-back capitol hill meetings. so they are arguing, look, he needed to be there, simple, safer, smarter but look. the bottom line is this he was g itself took place. as you saw there a number of ranking members were ...

Including in this administration as well as what weve done strategically across many administrations over 20 years. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i am worried about reports that we are seeing about violence against women and girls and taliban targeting minority groups, groups who have brutal history of committing violence again them are probably going to get worse. what are we doing to ensure physical access for the ngos that serve as the constituency? >> thank you, senator. these reports which i...

For the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of th...

I thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we want...

Days. but it is important that we go back and look at all of this. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman and thank you, secretary blinken for appearing before the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges with the evacuation over the situation of special immigrant visa and the talibans treatment of women and other minorities. i agree with your assessment that where we were when we got to that evacuation was because of the failure of bot...