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Commitment to going to 21w. this is a big first step in speeding up the movement of materials and goods through our supply chain. the actions of the president show that this is a supply—chain crisis that affects many countries across the world. it arises out of the fact that after the pandemic, demand rebounded much faster than expected and much faster than the ability of the world economy to supply the goods required. thats led to shortages, its led to price rises, and thats not going to be s...

Waiting in the pacific, full of goods from asia, unable to dock at full terminals in the ports of california, with containers piled high. the same now happening on the atlantic coast off georgia too and in other ports around the world, the plumbing of the world economy not functioning properly. at the white house today, president biden summoned us business bosses to work 24/7 to clear the backlogs. this is an across—the—board commitment to going to 24/7. this is a big first step in speeding ...

Conditions so we hit them hard, and we stayed longer. we were getting ready to move. i want every bolt, nail, screw, you know, those buildings, those beautiful canvas buildings that we build as hangers, i want the buildings taken out. i want the canvas, i want the arrow plains, i want the tanks, i want every single piece of equipment we have. then we are going to bomb five airfields and were going to take blogger because its right next to china right next to the nuclear facility. it be great to ...

And we stayed longer. we were getting ready to move. i want every bolt, nail, screw, you know, those buildings, those beautiful canvas buildings that we build as hangers, i want the buildings taken out. i want the canvas, i want the arrow plains, i want the tanks, i want every single piece of equipment we have. then we are going to bomb five airfields and were going to take bagram because its right next to china. right next to the nuclear facility. it be great to keep it because $10 million to b...

To change the plan. if youre going to go to zero and youre going to keep enough forces to hold your embassy in the airfield, it is incompatible to hold another base anywhere in the country. thats a policy decision to hold bagram under that base. i did not see any tactical utility to bagram. >> general, isnt it true that the president rejected your best military opinion and advice as to how quickly to withdraw american troops from afghanistan? >> well, i will say this. it has been my view that we...

Allowed us to hold airfields as well. once you make a decision to go to zero it is no longer feasible to hold bagram. courtney, first of all, what is the reaction from the military community about the way they have been questioned and the disagreement laid bare. it is brutal honesty. >> thats right, so a lot of this has been reported in the media as you well know. there has been reports since president biden make his decision and announcement in april. there have been a number of reports by un...

And we were -- we had a change of mission to go to zero and bring the troops down to a number that was only required to maintain an embassy, the bagram decision was made at that point. >> isnt it true that the president rejected your best military opinion and advice as to how quickly to withdraw american troops from afghanistan? >> it has been my view that we should have -- that i recommended a level of 2,500, a level that would have allowed us to hold bagram and other airfields as well. >> gene...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...

That allowed us to run intelligence that we have, weve lost bagram and other airfields that were able to allow us to run even drone operations out of them. i would be the first to say weve lost some of the capabilities. nah shouldnt diminish the capabilities we do have. we are still safer. i hope we can remain that safe into the future. >> thank you to secretary rice for joining me last week. so did america win its longest war? its a tough question even with tougher answers from americas top gen...

From nato, and our allies from afghanistan, the part that doesnt make me feel very comforted that weve lost the eyes and ears on the ground in afghanistan that helped us to know where the terrorists were, that allowed us to run the kinds of operations that you sometimes have to run against terrorists. we lost bagram and other airfields that were able to allow us to run certain, to, even drone operations out of them. i would be the first to say we lost some of the capabilities. but that shouldnt ...