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Than we were than in the days of deadlock in prior congresses. this is not a responsible way to govern. and the democrats have not getten their act together yesterday but traditionally at this stage there could be some conversation about what republican members of congress are going to lose if this fails. this cant just be seen as a political failure for democrats or for president biden. there are a lots and lots of people in lots and lots of districts that could use lower prescription drug pric...

Transparent about what they want. >> absolutely. i mean, i think we heard manchins frustration by the fact that progressives are holding his infrastructure bill hostage. they feel on the latter end that hes holding reconciliation hostage and hes not negotiating in good faith right now. i think it underscores, also, just how tense things are, the distrust between the moderates and the progressives in a way that i dont think we have seen before in this congress, but certainly in past congresses, a...

Really -- [video breaking up] ten congresses. its a 20 year conflict that our country owns and we have to have a broader discussion. its not a two-month conflict. i appreciate your candor and i appreciate the seriousness with all -- with all three of you have dealt with. serious issues to be addressed. ive two lines of questioning. one about our continuing obligation to our partners in the next about the planning in advance of the evacuation. i want to start the partner question with the recogni...

0 in the attack on the 26. >> in classified, id like to know that. i dont understand. i went to union public high school 1100. my math. 11,015,000 u.s. citizens. that leaves thousands, not hungry left -- not hundreds left. we have people calling us wanting to get out, u.s. citizens not allowed to get in the gate or kicked off the base are not allowed out. we have to get our folks home. i yield back. thank you. mr. chairman. >> general milley come i want to thank you for your 42 years of service,...

Years since september 11th? >> i think you have to look at the -- at the entire 20 years, senator. i think theres some great lessons learned that were going to take away once we do that, but, yeah, i believe youve got to look at the entire time spent. >> thank you. i agree that an effective review must be comprehensive. after all, the war in afghanistan was shaped by four different administrations and 11 different congresses. no party should be looking to score cheap partisan political points of...

Moral of the military. >> thank you. secretary, also, if that is the case, is it possible to have intellectually honest exercise that looksats most recent events in afghanistan last couple months or must any effective review look at the whole 20 years since september 11th? >> i think you have to look at the entire 20 years, there are great lessons learned that were going to take away once we do that, i believe you got to look at the entire time span. >> thank you. i agree effective review must b...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...

0 retrograde our equipment and that was accomplished. general miller executed the plan in accordance with the plan. a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow the government to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security sources. so it was, the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there and in conjunction with that plan, we were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy. that was the plan, s...

Will mean for future congresses and administrations to look at is how do we create the kind of track, you know, in the judicial system that would allow for these types of big issues to get settled so you dont have a question being resolved six months, a year after an administration has left office. and again against itself. >> yeah, especially when youre dealing with people who are cynically exploiting the timeline. barbara, it is friday night. can we go a little deeper on jurisprudence? are you...

Ceiling and keep going forward. this has happened on a republican and democrat administrations alike and congresses alike. we go through this theater all the time. you ever worry that someone makes a bold step and all of a sudden our credit rating gets down graded and confidence in american investments gets down graded and people avoid us? >> the debt limit needs to be increased. its a question of who provides the votes to do it. theres been a bipartisan negotiation in the past that put caps on ...