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Defer to my colleagues at the pentagon who are more expert in this than i am -- much of that equipment was made inoperable. other pieces of equipment will become inoperable because there is no ability on the part of the taliban to maintain it. none of it to the best of my knowledge poses a strategic threat to us or any of afghanistans neighbors. >> so we have an oversight letter we would like a response on that. lets just quick talk about the decision to close down bagram. the president says thi...

0 for the unity of our country. i thank you very much for the way that you have kept us engaged and informed as decisions have been made. as you pointed out, the biden administration was dealt a very difficult hand on the withdrawal from afghanistan. we all recognize we needed to withdraw, the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, weve talked about it. i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of ...

Differently? absolutely. yes. as always. foremost for me is for the state department to evaluate how it could better evacuate americans when events unravelled quickly. and i look forward to hearing from the secretary how the state department intends to complete its evacuation of the 100 to 200 americans remaining in afghanistan who want to come home as well as for evacuating those afghans who worked alongside us during the past 20 years. however, it is important to separate fair criticism from c...

History will be 90% is good enough. i think that thats shameful and the american people should not feel safer when they have a president of the united states willing to take 10% of us and leave us. >> bill: ive heard nothing but amazing things about general miller. never met him myself. do you know how many marines or soldiers he was requesting to keep bagram, to keep the embassy and the airport in kabul operating? >> i dont. but i can tell you for sure he warned not to close bagram. it was not ...

You could see terrorism coming out of there in 12, 24, 36 months. >> bill: that answer is yes. what do you make of that answer? >> look, i know general milley and highly disappointed he is being very political. thats an answer to cover yourself for later now that those warnings are happening. i have also heard him say general miller in charge of bagram gave advice to shut down bagram. i can tell you thats not true. i know that very firsthand information. general miller did not want to close bagr...

Talibans offer and thought they would have far more time than they did. >> on the tactical decision on which is the right airport for an evacuation of course any responsible president would give significant weight to the advice of commanders on the ground. their advice was to close bagram and focus on kabul. >> close bagram and focus on kabul. we did that and now a lot of people are dead. nobody has apologized. if you catch your kid doing something wrong you dont rest until they apologize. this ...

The biden administration apparently turned down the talibans offer and thought they would have far more time than they tk-plt. >> on the tactical decision on which is the right airport for an evacuation of course any responsible president would give significant weight to the advice of commanders on the ground. their advice was to close bagram and focus on kabul. >> close bagram and focus on ka kabul. we did that and now a lot of people are dead. nobody has apologized. if you catch your kid doing...

They started briefing intelligence community, state department officials, a whole bunch of people started briefing in may, telling them the taliban was on the march. remembered that donald trump handed joe biden a stable afghanistan, and a functioning embassy, and in that functioning embassy, there were foreign service officers. i think that what is going to happen, sean, is the strategic blunder is going to be closing bagram airbase. why was bagram closed and the secretary of state, antony blin...