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Capability is a farce. sure, we can send a drone out to take out a terrorist but we didnt know where the terrorists are. without persistent isc capability and reliable intelligence of the ground its impossible. we dont have either of them now. it doesnt help we need to fly the drone 1600 miles to reach afghanistan leaving little time on station. or that we have to fly over pakistan, an ally of the taliban, who could revoke overflight privileges at any time. none of this is giving us much confide...

Equally endangering our allies of india and israel. mr. secretary, even before the withdrawal there were frustrating reports of americans and green card holders being turned away at the gates of the airport or being instructed by the administration to stay away from the airport entirely while other countries were sending special forces to kabul to retrieve their citizens and bring them to the airport you repeatedly refused to do the same even after promising a pentagon press conference august 18...

Thats the force we wanted to continue to keep on the ground. as we went down and looked at going down to 650 you get a force almost exclusively built around the ability to defend the embassy and the airfield and provide entry-level logistics to the afghans. a package comes into the airport, you give it to the afghans and drive it away. we lost that capability. >> but based on the civilian leadership saying this is what civilian leadership wants to do, i -- you are not arguing this point. you mak...

Good point here, we dont have that sound to play right now. that was a book end to the other issue, which is these generals made clear they did not think that troops should be there after september 1st, once the withdraw started, they said there would be no way to keep them. they would be in harms way. the taliban would turn on them, isis would turn on them, a near guarantee, they said, for more u.s. casualties which they werent willing to take. >> they werent willing to take and, you know, i fe...

Ground saying no, that is a civilian, dont pull the trigger. i appreciate your candor saying how difficult this is going to be, the president of the united states is selling this country fiction we can do over here with nothing what were doing over here with neighboring base access, with allies on the ground and with ocean access. that is function you need to own and be honest with the american people. i am just livid at the fact of the future americans that are going to have to go back to clean...

Not yet been approved as has the pfizer, we got a little bit vexed. and thought, well, we wasted a trip down here but then when we said we were immunocompromised, they said we can have the shot >> picking up on that, gabe, what about the idea of mixing and matching vaccines, for example, getting the first two doses of moderna and a booster from pfizer? >> reporter: yes, lester today we learned that data from the mix and match trial have bee submitted to the fda but theyre not yet publicly availa...

Providing the afghans with a great capability and at the end of the day that capability was not employed because the security forces fractured and essentially evaporated. we need to look at ourselves what we did and whether or not its the right thing to do going forward. >> in my view congressman, i think when we do security forces assistance we have to guard against mirror image. with the afghan army from the beginning we wanted to create them in the image of the u.s. arm ear. the success story...

Situation here. when we lay out in the book the worst case scenarios that were presented to president biden about what could happen, they were pretty bleak and quite frankly most of them have happened already, sooner than expected. and you always have to look at the intelligence on this. we lay it out for those situations and i think as general milley said, no one expected this to collapse in 11 days. it clearly did. the situation is altered and you used the right word, fluid, but it is a fluid ...

Are things that we are looking for. it will take time to develop true intel picture of whats going on and we have begun that. we will remain focused on this. >> general milley. >> of the specific indicators and warnings i would like to take to a different session. in general what we are looking for, leadership, capability, training, those sorts of things, demonstrations of intent that al qaeda and/or isis is going to do external operations against the united states or our interests. if we pick u...