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Heard throughout the day from the secretary of state? >> well, you know, they have been all over the board on this thing. but the really delusional on it. they are out of step with the american people. the vast majority of the american people watched this unfold. what you just saw was a statement from the democrat chairman of that committee calling this a colossal failure and it clearly was it a debacle. it was embarrassment. it was all those things. and we wanted answers as to who was making th...

There were scoldings as republicans ripped into the administrations decision-making over the afghanistan pull-out. watch this highlight. >> there is not enough lipstick in the world to put on this pig to make it look different than what it actually is. >> what did we think was going to happen as that support began to be removed? what did we think was going to happen when the terrible status quo was changed? this wasnt failure of intelligence, this was failure of policy and planning. >> realize t...

The hope the taliban lets all the people go, a number we cant get out of the administration. >> sandra: some senators went beyond calling this incompetence in the form of rand paul labeling just actions in afghanistan, senator ron johnson, bret, compared afghanistan withdrawal to the border crisis, bringing it back home to domestic policies. slamming what he called detachment from reality. it is really interesting to see him tie in some administrations actions and policies what we saw play out i...

Flawed. >> this is not a failure of intelligence. its a failure of policy and planning. we have the wrong people analyzing this. someone didnt see this. >> lets stop with the hypocrisy and who is to blame. theres a lot of people to blame and we all share in it. >> neil: all right. this time antony blinken there in person but still the same treatment. a bipartisan ripping over the administrations handling of the collapse and later evacuation from afghanistan. aishah hasnie joins us from capitol h...

Reality, the biden administration claims that u.s. counterterrorism capabilities in afghanistan will be fine even if there is no u.s. presence there. i know you support the withdrawal. they call it, you know, over-the-horizon capabilities, which means outside of the country. but here you go, possibly another debacle with the u.s. killing innocent civilians, and the u.s., by the way, was in afghanistan at the time. im not saying that this proves we need to have troops in afghanistan, but doesnt t...

The biden administration caused this disaster. >> this is a complete debacle. >> we had every reason to believe and to plan for the rapid collapse of the afgan military and the of a began government. >> president biden has described the evacuation from afghanistan as an extraordinary success. this has to be the lie of the 21st century. >> things got really heated when senator ted cruz pressured whether the officials gave the taliban the names of american citizens during the chaotic evacuation. >...

>> good evening, bret. once again republicans called on the secretary of state to resign but in a shift from yesterdays house hearing, he wasnt getting much love from democrats either. >> doing the right thing in the wrong way ends up being the wrong thing. >> democratic chairman of the senate foreign relations committee robert menendez set the tone for what turned out to be three hours of intense questioning and scolding of secretary of state antony blinken over the withdrawal from afghanistan....

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 ...

0 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 withdrawal and the options were extremely limited. the mistakes made by previous administrations, we talked about it, but i think we need to understand that many of us did not support the 2002 campaign to go into iraq. one of those reasons was we wa...

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