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Accountability and restoring dignity -- that was a big part of his campaign against president trump to win this election. he is commander-in-chief now. your son violated orders from your commanders according to the law? >> i get that lt. col. caused problems for the marine corps and the military by breaking the chain of command. he knows it. and it will be talked about for decades in the future of what stewart has done with social media and its a problem for the marine corps. while stewart broke...

Power, or whether the country will further fracture into civil war. but we must continue to protect the united states of america and its people from terrorist attacks from afghanistan. a reconstituted al qaeda or isis, with aspirations to attack the united states, is a very real possibility. and those conditions to include activity in ungoverned spaces could prevent themselves in the next 12 to 36 months. that mission will be much harder now, but not impossible. and we will continue to protect t...

Made consistent throughout that we should keep a steady state of 2500, could bounce up to 3500. >> sean: i dont show the personal opinions i have with the president, and less of course her name is bob woodward ort rob costa. by the way, jen psaki, care to circle back and explain this? was joe biden lying? were you lying? we dontou need covid test becae they are not going to be here very long.ry youre telling a lot of lies inn that white house. >> the presence at his military commanders were spli...

Kabul and to stop the takeover by the taliban. earlier, joe biden had absolutely denied that he had ever had a recommendation along those lines. there is a clear gap there which you can be sure republican senators are going to press at, because of what he said. the other thing about these committee hearings that often happens is it becomes partisan. the fire that the military commanders were under was both one friendly and hostile sources. there is huge displeasure atjoe biden�*s handling of a...

Compound, not a long distance. we did use helicopters for that, we kept helicopters until the very end. one final thing we did was breaking down helicopters and loaded them. >> what were the specific contingency plan to continue the evacuation if the taliban closed checkpoints surrounding the airport? >> all times we were prepared to accept american citizens that were able to make it to the gate. there was external taliban cordon, we talked about that, the cordon was part of the force protection...

Deals that the taliban commanders struck with local leaders in the wake of the doha agreement. that the doha agreement itself had a demoralizing effect on afghan soldiers. and that we failed to fully grasp that there was only so much for which and for whom many of the afghan forces would fight. we provided the afghan military with equipment and aircraft and the skills to use them. and over the years, they often fought bravely, and tens of thousands of afghan soldiers and police officers died. bu...

The pros and cons and the costs and risks. and yet, in august of this year, president biden told george stepnopoulos in an interview, no, no one said that, referring to keeping some 2,500 troops in afghanistan. was that an inaccurate statement by the president? >> sir, im not going to comment on a statement by the president? >> okay. general mckenzie, in mid-june, your commanders on the ground were informing you that things were deteriorating. at that time, you thought you should proceed with th...

>> when they -- laura: president biden was going to bring accountability and transparency to government, that was a big part of the pitch and restoring dignity to the national conversation, bringing us all together as a country, that was a big part of his campaign against donald trump. he is commander-in-chief now and the counterargument is your son violated military code by going public with criticism of his commanders according to the technical military law that exists on the books of your rea...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...