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And also reply to what robin just said. >> yeah. im not quite sure i agree with robin on the gloom and doom of the rest of the world. you know, im old enough to remember when the soviets left afghanistan, and it was pretty devastating to them, and for a while, there were repercussions in terms of their -- the states that aligned with the soviet union at the time. they had also been defeated by a so-called rag tag mujahideen. what id suggest, though, is the united states was not defeated by the t...

That we are doing a review. we will look at everything that happened in this entire operation. in the areas of improvement, where we can do better, where we can find the holes or weaknesses and flog them as we go forward, and of course we intend, after we have had the opportunity to run that analysis, to share that with people. >> we have noted that you have encouraged americans on the ground to leave and that many chose not to. i just want to follow up on that. will the u.s. governments committ...

There? >> jake: as i said before, we have been working, engaging, coordinating with taliban on the ground to ensure safe passage. we will continue to work that issue day by day until we have completed our mission. >> the administrations were not prepared -- the reconstruction. >> jake: one of the findings was that 20 years, hundreds of billions of dollars spent. huge amounts of capability is provided, huge amounts of advising and assisting, and you had a security force that at the end of the day...

Elements on the ground to ensure safe passage. we will continue to work that issue day by day until weve completed our mission. what was your first question? >> your reaction to the special inspector general report on the afghan reconstruction that basically essentially said that administrations were not prepared to come up with a concrete plan for the reconstruction of it. >> look, one of the findings of that report was the 20 years, hundreds of billions of dollars spent huge number of forces t...

Across the country and the fact that, you know, after fighting bravely and hard for many, many years the afghan national security defense forces largely collapsed without a fight in many provincial capitals and that the afghan government collapsed and their leaders fled. that was quite a surprise to me. i will say this going back to my first visit to afghan, it is clear that our mission which was striking back at al-qaeda after 9/11 and knocking down any terrorist group had largely been accompli...

Power. >> reporter: taliban 2.0. more moderate inclusive, power sharing. from 1996 to 200 1 the ultra conservative islamists stoned homosexuals and shot female schools as it took over much of afghanistan. women boar the blunt of this medieval ideology. the movement was toppled by nato and afghan allies intent on ending taliban rule and the safe haven it gave to the plots on 9/11. al qaeda was routed, fleeing nato into scattered exile. for the next 20 years, the taliban fought back taking territo...

Happened in this entire operation from start to finish and areas of improvement where we can do better, where we can find holes or weaknesses and plug them as we go forward. and of course we intend after weve had the opportunity to run that analysis to share that with people. yes? >> you noted that you had encouraged americans on the ground there to leave and many chose not to. i just wanted to follow up on that. will the u.s. government commit to ensuring any americans currently on the ground i...

By the taliban. what happened is we got into the mission overreach. multiple administrations made mistakes. did things differently, changed the policies. there were mistakes from the military and mistakes from the intelligence community that all contributed to a mission extension that had us trying to build a government in our image that was never going to be a government in our image. and with that, when you have a government that is not trusted by its soldiers, and that was what was happening....

To do what is best for america. what is best for america, congress must immediately rest executive overreach from this administration and future administrations. congress must immediately retain war powers back from the executive branch. joe biden and others before him, if not checked, others after him. joe biden, on this particular occasion, turning his back on our allies who fought with us, showed our enemies that we are not to be feared and showed our allies we are not to be trusted. that has...

Have anything like leverage on, they like to be considered a credible country and would like to have international legitimacy which china and russia have given them. we have no leverage. the notion of your giving conditions to the television while we scamper out with fear in the lead, it is intuitively most americans will realize that is not credible. the sad part is we had credibility in this country. we had multiple administrations that could have gotten us to a peace accord. we did not run th...