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we extend sincere condolences to all the victims who have been affected. >> ashley: ezekiel kelly was supposed to be in bars at the time of the attacks, a judge sentences him for aggravated assault in 2021. >> todd: he was released after 11 months and the charge was downgraded from attempted murder. brooke singman has the latest. >> brooke: police confirm the suspect who was at large for almost 24 hours has been caught, here is what we know so far. 19-year-old ezekiel kelly is in custo...

Long time to come. >> ashley: two cases, evacuee who had broken out of prison by the taliban in august of 2021, since been brought back or taken by ice agents. how many more people do you think are in the united states right now? >> ashley, here is the problem, they dont show up and you saw pictures of the botched withdrawal, didnt use baghram. these people dont show up with documents, dont have passports, cant hit a computer button and say this is okay, this one is not. this is a long process. ...

Options for keeping baghram open beyond july 2nd? >> yes. >> did you provide options for keeping baghram open directly to the president? >> yes. >> had baghram stayed open, would our support to the afghan air force have been more effective in your view? >> im sorry, i didnt catch the last part. >> if baghram had stayed open, would our support to the afghan air force have been more effective in your view, yes or no? >> frankly im not sure on that one because most of the afghan air force was at di...

Couldnt be a surprise. they never were going to step to the plate and it doesnt have been a surprise that they wouldnt fight. they never had an allegiance to a country. i mean, we knew that and special ops people said it gets worse every day. it doesnt get better. every mission was worse. we used to drive from kabul to baghram. after i went back the second time, hell, we couldnt do it everything got so bad. everything got bad. i just -- and ive got to tell this -- it drives me absolutely insane ...

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 >> 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 ...

Did you personally reject a recommendation to hold or to recapture baghram air force base? >> heres what ive done -- are ill answer the last question first. on the tactical questions of how to conduct an evacuation or a war i gather up all the major military personnel that are in afghanistan, the commanders as well as the pentagon. and i ask for their bit of military judgment, what would be the most efficient way to accomplish the mission? they concluded, the military, that baghram was not much ...

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Seriously threatening kandahar. this notnhat all of a sudden this popped up two weeks ago and they birdie able to storm through the case, thats not true and there was a concern. there is now a colleague here saying that the state department the diplomats said in addition to the military more than a month ago there was an urgency to do, to get these people out, and it existed way before this mission started on august 14th. >> courtney, why are we handing baghram over before we got people out. it ...