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Al-qaedas capabilities were degraded significantly, including its ability to plan external operations. after 20 years, 461 american lives lost, 20,000 injuries, $2 trillion spent, it was time to end americas longest war. president biden took office in january, he inherited an agreement his predecessor had reached with the taliban to remove all forces in afghanistan by may 1st this year. as part of that, the administration pressed the taliban to release some top war commanders. reduced our presen...

Strike happened when there were a lot of eyes on kabul. it is not unusual for u.s. drone strikes to kill civilians. it is not unusual for the u.s. government to claim it killed terrorists instead. how can you possibly ensure us that our drone strikes and over the horizon capabilities will actually reach their targets? >> that is being looked at very, very, very carefully by others in the administration. so that we understand exactly what happened. or what didnt happen. >> joining me now is one o...

Proposal nor did it add any additional resources or capabilities that state already had. it was a bureaucratic movement. not creating or getting rid of actual capabilities. just a new organizational chart. and new chart. is that a fair statement? >> that is a fair statement, mr. chairman. >> okay. if its not the ccr, then what is the answer? >> here again, to your point, with regard to the ccr, whether it became a bureau or not, there was no change in the assets that we already had at hand to wo...

Actually getting them into -- we were seeing afghan outposts and they went from surrounding the small provisional capitals to surrounding major cities. this is weeks before and at same time as i believe on july 8th president biden was still giving this naive optimistic prediction about the fighting capabilities of the afghan forces and so forth. we could see them meticulously focused on the north. they were splintering the sclerotic remain of any resistance. you could see the taliban was oshts v...

He could not explain how he is going to get american citizens behind enemy lines out. the interpreters as you mentioned are being executed right now by the taliban. and when i asked them about what are we doing about intelligence and surveillance recognizance, i as our capabilities, we have no eyes and ears on the ground in afghanistan. i did start. and we cant see russia, china, and iran as well. and when i asked him about this, and i asked him that president putin threatens the united states o...

Intelligence, we have to be specific on what we mean when we say intelligence failure. the u.s. made a precise attack, it was very precise. we have superior hardware. we have superior surveillance capabilities, however, this was a targeting failure. we dont have the same kind of assets on the ground to verify if our targets are actually the right targets. we have seen this again over the past two decades. now we dont have the military footprint or diplomatic footprint to verify this. the questio...

Korea has tested? and are they different to what weve seen tested before?— different to what weve seen tested before? sure. so north korea normally tests - tested before? sure. so north korea normally tests ballistic. korea normally tests ballistic missiles, thats the headline weve grown used to from recent years. a nuclear capable cruise missile is nothing they have tested in the past, and also they tested and just now. these present a different type of challenge for missile defence and deser...

Mentioned are being executed right now by the taliban. and when i asked them about whae are we doing about intelligence and surveillance recognizance, i as our capabilities, we have no eyes and ears on the ground in afghanistan. its dark. and we cant see russia, china, and iran as well. and when i asked him about this, and i asked him that president putin threatens the united states of america telling them that he could not build intelligence capabilities in the region, he could not respond to t...

A different way now. >> are you saying that josh is making the point this is emblematic of what were going to see with the over-the-horizon capabilities. >> i think we have lots of partners to work with, middle east partners, well be sharing intelligence with them like we have the entire time. >> afghanistan happens to be the place where thousands of new terrorists have been released from a bunch of prisons and the government includes a network linked to al qaeda, and all of a sudden we have abs...

>> sure. well, its obvious and tragic that there have been mistakes over the course of the 20-year war in afghanistan. this is different. this is new. this is the first example of what it looks like to conduct counter terrorism in afghanistan when we dont have troops on the ground, and we were assured we would have these rising capabilities, everything would be fine. >> can you tell me what over the horizon capabilities. >> doing counter terrorism without any people on the ground in afghanistan ...