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That is their concern here. they said its not impossible. but its going to be very hard is the words theyre using to describe it. its not so much conducting a strike. its to get the daily intelligence that were able to get from the afghan security forces, from the people itself, from the fact that we had seven military bases and multiple c.i. bases as listening posts. with all of that gone, you cant get that information at 10,000 feet. its just not possible. yes, can we conduct a strike when we ...

Protective lines around the voting process. >> well thats exactly right, and theres a reason why its so important that there are state level laws like this. obviously in our federal system of government, the federal law is what it is. there are powerful bases, compelling bases, for the justice department to investigate a significant amount of what happened surrounding the 2020 presidential election, and obviously theres a select committee in the house thats doing that to. but under our constitut...

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...

Operations in afghanistan. now, obviously, this is provprovote i -- provoking bipartisan concern on the hill. u.s. officials dont necessarily believe, and lawmakers dont necessarily believe, the u.s. should trust the russians enough to use their bases in central asia to carry out these missions after the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. now, we are told by sources that what the national security council wanted was for mark milley to kind of clarify comments that president putin had made in june...

Released earlier this year, and it was said mark milley thought trump would use the alleged fraud he was lying about to usurp power and maintain his presidency. mark was so concerned, he was asking his associates, according to this book, whether he should be prepared or try to stave off a coup. another major question democrats will have here. president trump is still openly talking about this election fraud, still talking about the possibility that he will run for re-election. >> so did you basi...

Theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan which was our core original mission. and everyone who served in that war should be proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when the ambassador signed the doha agreement l...

Why he didnt resign. had he resigned over that disagreement, then that would have actually struck a blow for civilian control, would it not? >> well, i mean, his answer i thought was interesting to that. he said to resign would have been a political act and i am a military man. >> yeah. >> and then he said very movingly my dad didnt get to resign at iwo jima. that kids at abbey gate didnt get to resign, they didnt have that choice and i dont, either. i thought that was a good straight up answer ...

Eight hours carrying evacuees out on u.s. planes. and that, of course, meant there was a backlog. chaotic scenes, desperate scenes as people tried to push into the airport and to get out safely. so it did seem like there was a level of candor about the successes and the biggest failure which oren touched upon which is how is it possible the afghan army collapsed in such a short period of time and that no one predicted that. and while i think there was some finger pointing at the intelligence age...

Afghans who were vetted and approved to come here. you now have female troops who have been assaulted. you have afghan evacuees committing sex crimes at fort mccoy. what are we to make of this? what steps are we taking to ensure that thousands of afghans about who we know nothing are not going to be a menace to our troops at military bases and the communities? >> im aware of the allegations and i take the allegations very seriously. i can assure you that our commanders at our bases have what the...

The horizon counterterrorism mis missions. is that true? >> senator, this is an issue that i believe came up during our conversation that the president had with president putin where president putin offered to offer -- to provide assistance. >> but have you reached out to the russians asking specifically to use bases? >> general milley just recently had a conversation with his russian counterpart -- >> so the reports are true that have been coming out today? >> i can assure you that, you know, w...