During an interview aired on Friday's edition of "The Issue Is," Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) stated that during the recent trip by several members of | Clips
During an interview aired on Friday's edition of "The Issue Is," Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) stated that during the recent trip by several members of | Clips
they called biden s handling of the withdrawal a strategic failure and i asked mccall why this is not a bipartisan report. let me play for you what he said. we wanted this to be bipartisan. but there is no april tide on the democratic side. there was initially, kate, in fairness to my chairman, chairman meeks, who i have a lot of respect for, but they got word from the administration this is not a good news story, and stand down. so they stopped having any hearings on this. what is your response? my response to mr. mccaul is we work together, but his statement is inaccurate. we continued to have hearings. we have had over 14 hearings and briefings specifically on this matter. but the deal is that they refuse to look at the afghanistan withdrawal and the context of the 20 years we were there. they don t want to talk about the doha agreement that was under donald trump.
simply pulling out certain things that i believe were inaccurate, as in fact the report does show. is it true what mccaul said at all, and we re running out of time, is it true what mccaul suggested that you were eager to participate and then the white house asked you to not do it because it would be a bad story for democrats? no, the white house never asked me not to do it. that s never occurred. absolutely not. you know, just as we see, we in the legislative branch make our own decisions on what we do. the white house does not interfere and tell us what to do on this committee. congressman gregory meeks of new york, the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, good to see you again. thank you so much. thank you, jake. a reminder, we ll have the ranking republican congressman michael mccaul on the show tomorrow to talk about his report. coming up next, how florida governor ron desantis is using the fbi s search at mar-a-lago in his home state to motivate republican