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Condition under the doha agreement. and perhaps most importantly for the united states national security, the taliban has never renounced their linkages with al qaeda or broke their affiliation with them. we, the united states, adhered to every condition. in the fall of 2020, my analysis then was that an accelerated withdrawal without meeting specific and necessary conditions risks losing the substantial gains made in afghanistan, would potentially damage u.s. worldwide credibility, and could pr...

Intelligence services had underestimated the strength of the afghan army, thats something that we did hear about today as well. yeah, the issues here seems to be there was a whole series of judgments compounded to end up in a miss calculation, so the effect... this is in their words, their view — the effect of the doha agreement on the effect of the doha agreement on the morale of the afghan army, the extent to which there was corruption in the upper reaches of the afghan army, the extent to w...

Point there was a full debate of the pros and cons and costs and risks yet in august of this year president biden told george stephanopolous in an interview no one said that to me keeping 2500 troops in afghanistan. was that an inaccurate statement by the president. >> i wont comment on the statement by the president. >> okay. general mckenzie your commanders on the ground in mid june were reporting things were deteriorating and increase forces and proceed with the retrograde. what did you decid...

Service members who could have been left there and how you approached that decision. not what exactly your advice was to the decision and how you reached that decision and how you tried to deal with it while advising the president. >> let me be clear i support the presidents decision to end the war in afghanistan. i did not support staying in afghanistan forever. and let me also say weve talked about the process that we used to provide input to the president. i think that process was a very thor...

Environment. thats what he said, not that no one presented that option. that option didnt exist in reality, and no one presented it. the president in fact made it clear earlier in that same interview that, yes, some of his military leaders had said that we should keep 2,500 troops there. what he said was none of them said that we could do it in a stable, peaceful environment. and that is the key point. the other key point is -- and i know a lot of energy will be expended today trying to get thes...

Expired. that question will have to go unanswered. >> thank you, in an interview august 16th president biden promised to keep military troops in afghanistan until every american citizen who wanted to leave was able to leave. this did not happen nor can we confirm that blinken claim that he sent 19 separate messages to americans telling them to leave the country since march of this year. also unclear is the truth of the biden claim that no military commander recommended leaving behind a residual ...

About bribes and what we were left with when we were about to leave was state that had grown so corrupt that governors were cutting deals with jihadists to switch sides, inflation was rampant because of money we handed out and left ghost soldiers absentee listed on payroll so commanders could steal salary, similar to vietnam. you are seeing a lot of similarities presented to the case. a lot of study after vietnam said corruption was fundamental ill largely responsible for the ultimate collapse. ...

Abc. whats the white house saying about that? what we heard from the generals versus the president? >> well, what the white house is doing is very carefully deconstructing with the president was asked and how it lines up with what weve been hearing from the generals on capitol hill. theyre arcing if you look at the question the president was asked. he was asked about a question that didnt exist. the situation was stable and would remain stable if they kept 2500 troops in afghanistan. the white h...

What i said. >> the president pulled all u.s. troopsta are. you are saying there were military commanders who advised him that that was a good idea to pull all american troops out and that general milley, general mckenzie, general miller, they said something else, but the presidents top military visors, others we wont name, told him sure, we can pull everyone out? >> secretary psaki: thats not how these conversations go. its a risk assessment. >> sean: joe biden lied and she is spinning like a t...

>> the politics that feeds anger and resentment towards those who arent like us. and starting turning away from democratic principles in favor of tribalism and might makes right. >> he also talked, of course, about starting his political career right there in chicago. thanks so much for watching. its time for anderson. two of the nations top-military commanders thought about keeping troops in afghanistan. what the commander in chief did, instead, and what he told the public about the advice he...