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Keep on the ground. as we went down -- as we looked at going down to 650, you get a force that is almost exclusively built around the ability to defend embassy and the airfield and provide entry-level logistics to the afghans. by that, i mean a package comes into the airport, you get it over to the afghans, they drive it away and you have no way to track what happened. we lost that capability. >> but based on the civilian leadership saying, this is what the civilian leadership wants to do. you g...

Thank you. we appreciate it. >> we still can. we have the capability to change this right now with thermo uabs and all because of other equipment. we dont have to accept this outcome. i wish someone had asked general milley how much of our advanced capability have we actually used and they will tell you its 10% or less. so what do you got it all for if youre not going to use it? exactly. >> sean: they are not lifting a finger. if theyve abandoned our fellow americans. theyve abandoned their fami...

Basketball. whether or not im a star is up to others and we didnt win the championship. well, the situation is obviously that we would like to see, essentially, all of the players for the general safety to get vaccinated. what i would say is that players reason to their own and their peers. i would suggest those that dont get vaccinated listen. i was just just listening to what he was saying. he has a very good message about getting vaccinated. and le wrop, you think he is going to have a big im...

Acknowledged in testimony today that the taliban victory over the united states means that we now have a growing threat from the new taliban run state of afghanistan. congressman mike turner was in that hearing and talking about general milleys call to china and gen rat john ratcliffe is standing by. first, we go to congressman turner, a member of the armed services and intelligence committees. congressman, good to have you with us today. >> thank you. >> martha: you were pressing pretty hard on...

To the 2500 number >> they were different capability. >> when we went from 2500 down and effective zero we would keep 650. >> they went from 2500 to 650 as i understand it on their way to. >> thats correct. the capabilities were different. they were different forces to do different things. >> crucial point. thank you. >> my first question on june 23 is why have you not started the evacuation of our allies already? you responded we have a moral imperative to save the afghans who worked by our sid...

Unlike last fall and winter we have 55 pakistan of the population fully vaccinated. do you see us approaching the end of the fight? >> the word potentially is the critical word. we have in our power to be able to to do that. it looks like there is a trnd down in both cases and hospital sdpags. there is a lagging indicator of deaths. i would assume that if things go the way we have seen with other surge social security that soon ewe see the deaths go down. the problem is that were entering the co...

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 their special forces into kabul to retrieve their citizens and bring them to the airport, you repeatedly refused to do same, even after promising in a pentagon press conference on august 18th that, quote, well get everyone we c...

Messages. why it is port for their own health. for that of their families, and also something that we continue to emphasize. the responsibility to get that veil of protection over society. so everyone that gets vaccinated not only breaks themselves and their family, but theyre part of the solution to society. so i think we cannot only just turn the corner because we can go way down. it is up to us if is a very important situation of what we have in our grasp, the capability to do that and we nee...

Europeans. the problems for emmanl macron is what hes talking about, a more independent europe, is not the capability and iont think there is the appetite. thatd mean the germans and others would have to spend much more on defense. the last i checked, thats not where european public opinion is. its not where european political elites are. so i think theres a gap between what mr. macron is calling for and what were likely to see in europe. theres this uneasy transatlantic relationship, which has ...

More significant military action. >> thanks, first on your request for an over the horizon capability brief. we will certainly sign up for that. i committed to the chairman to do that early on. will have general mckenzie and the joint staff in my policy people in that brief as well. in terms of specific areas that we are focused on, we are looking at their ability to develop a capability to export terror to the homeland here. whether or not we see senior leaders beginning -- freedom of movement ...