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Slaughtered now as we speak with our weapons, with our dam equipment, our allies are being slaughtered. every morning we wake up to beheading videos, to executions, to people being hunted down with our own database. when, and if, you have to present options to the president, how many soldiers are we going to lose because we have no allies on the ground, no bases in the region. well get to the crux of the issue, which is over the horizon counter terrorism. those drones have to fly all the way aro...

That u.s. troops could be withdrawn from afghanistan without the chaos that we saw unfold. in your best military judgment, was there a way to extract the troops without the chaos that we saw unfold? >> i just want to be clear we are talking two different missions. the retrograde of the troop are advisors and complete by mid july and done without any significant incident the handover of 11 bases, the bringing out of a lot of equipment under the command of general miller. non-combatant evacuation ...

The department of defense are co-conspirators in all of this and they must be held accountable as well. >> brian: every day we held those key bases in between our enemies between china, iran, and russia was a victory for us. it kept an eye and a lid on the war on terror and now that is gone and no one is being held accountable except lieutenant colonel who decided to speak up and say some of the things you just said right now. guys, thanks so much. coming up straight ahead on "fox news primetime...

Conversation. doug, of course, national security counsels director for iraq in the bush and obama administrations. also retired army lieutenant colonel in afghanistan. doug, lets dig into the future timeline here. general milley, as you know, noted this morning in his opening remarks and al qaeda could present themselves in the next 12 to 36 months. one to three years in afghanistan could pose a threat to us again. how real is that concern, doug? and what are your concerns about our ability to c...

Its the ultimatum the biden administration is apparently now giving border patrol agents already spread incredibly thin on our southern border. brian: thats the new trend. load up the bases. carley shim cuffs is live at nationals park with a preview of tonights national baseball game. carley, who gave you the keys? [laughter] carley: brian, thats right. im inside national park for the congressional baseball game will take place later today during one of the wild els weeks on capitol hill by the ...

Afghanistan into europe or the united states in the one to three-year time period. general milley is covering his bases. thats not impossible. we like to think that u.s. intelligence would see if that happens. even bracketing whether the taliban might help or not. but the u.s. intelligence would see that is happening and that this -- theres much over the horizon capability that could deal with that were al al kaed to start gathering form. >> is it true? >> ham strung, certainly they were handed ...

Choice of staying a little bit longer or, for example, keeping bagram or other bases before you return them back to afghanistan to help bring out the u.s., the citizens, residents and the people that had been allies of the united states trying to get out? >> i took from the testimony yesterday that there was no middle sort of status quo option, that in order to stay longer would have required an escalation. would have required significant reinforcement for an indefinite period of time. >> milley...

Going to work. they believe al-qaeda is going to come roaring back and my question today was if over the horizon counter-terrorism and drones didnt work to stop the rise of isis after the obiden crowd pulled us out of there too wreckslessly and too soon how is it going to work in afghanistan where no bases, no allies and no kurds on the ground and now they have taken over an entire armys worth of equipment. >> brian: one of those soundbites cut short i couldnt play the whole thing. you got a cal...

Ate. look at the bases we had to deal with, bases in the gulf, base necessary kuwait and turkey, in jordan, in israel, allied bases in cypress. allies in the kurds. we didnt let isis take over the government and baghdad and the army and functions of the state. we had all these assets to work with, go clean up that mess and how many soldiers and lives did we lose from cleaning up that mistaken withdrawal, mr. chairman? lets transition over here to afghanistan, what do we see? we have general mcke...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...