why didn t anybody in the trump administration do anything better than what was handed to biden? i don t i don t have any idea why the biden administration didn t go forward with the plan. it s been seven months. i can understand getting your feet on the ground and figuring things out but at the end of the day, we certainly had the ability to do a responsible drawdown and departure from there through some additional planning. i can t answer that. but we weren t going to execute the final withdraw so i have no way to answer your question on that, sorry. no, not on the biden side, on the trump side. there was never any renegotiation, there was never any better terms, there was never pushing the taliban to do what it wasn t doing at the time. why wasn t that done on trump s watch before biden came in? you d have to ask the ambassador. i assumed that he was doing that throughout, even after the signing of the doha agreement. so you don t see that as
be set up or have a problem getting out of there. i don t understand why nobody ever took any of the other steps that you are outlining. well, the afghan allies and when we get people out. that wasn t in there but we were going to do it later. the deadline when we d be out. those were all soft points, we were going to deal with it later. why didn t anybody in the trump administration do anything better than what was handed to biden? i don t i don t have any idea why the biden administration didn t go forward with the plan. it s been seven months. i can understand getting your feet on the ground and figuring things out but at the end of the day, we certainly had the ability to do a responsible drawdown and departure from there through some additional planning. i can t answer that. but we weren t going to execute the final withdraw so i have no way to answer your question on that, sorry. no, not on the biden side, on the trump side. there was never any renegotiation, there was neve