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On fox news at night. the pentagon defending the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan. watch. >> u.s. military commanders on the ground in afghanistan made decisions that they could with the information that they had at the time. they were fully given -- they were given the decision-making capability and were responding to threats on the ground in real time. so were very proud of the work that our commanders and service members did not during just the evacuation and in those few weeks but over the 2...

Relentlessly. slowly but relentlessly. but then as we pressed and pressed and pressed on them, the response was yes, well do it, but they didnt. >> we have seen over a number of year, we have the challenge of elections considered illegitimate by a portion of the country. we had abdullah and ghani against each other. as we analyze and try to understand the rapid collapse, d id the, was there essentially a failure to create an effective decision making capability within the afghanistan government?...

Extent outside the city, relenlessly. slowly, but relentlessly. then as we pressed on them they said, yes, well do it, but they didnt. >> we have seen over a number of years, we had the challenge of elections that were considered illegitimate by a portion of the country. we had a face-off creating paralysis, great difficulty appointing key ministers to key positions. as we analyze and try to understand the rapid collapse, did the -- was there essentially a failure to create an effective decision...

0 i wish general austin were here. secretary austin could answer many of the questions that were proposed. but this was not a choice between either a dangerous escalation of the war, which has just been laid out, or a precipitous chaotic withdrawal that embarrassed us around the globe. to say that it was not a sign of weakness the way we left. i mean, i dont know who youre talking to. but if youre talking to our allies in nato, they would say it was a sign of weakness. if youre talking honestly ...

Up to his own decision-making capability, his own decision-making strategy. had this conversation with erdog erdogan. he had long wanted to wash his hands of this situation. erdogan has long wanted to do this, and now there are not people telling him it is a bad idea. >> nbcs richard engel for us following these developments throughout the day. thank you, richard. lets switch gears and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins with a check on your weather. >> last week we talked about the histori...

Force, a major decision needed to be made. these ground commanders, these americans cannot go up against turkey. that is nowhere in their -- in their decision-making capability. they need answers from washington. and the answers that have been coming have been, well, looks like that mission is pretty much over and it is time to come home and the commanders look at what they are facing and allies and they they will be betrayed and a possible that isis could come roaring right back. >> that is my ...

Resolved without a lawsuits. they cost time and money are emotionally upsetting. she has been through the wringer making decision she made. this young lady is an adult by law, 21 years old. anybody with college kids can tell you its an age at which we havent quite reached our real strong decision making capability yet. whether or not they want to put this young lady on tv which this case will get more air time and talk about who told her what to do with this little animal and when and explain th...

Resolved without a lawsuits. they cost time and money are emotionally upsetting. she has been through the wringer making decision she made. this young lady is an adult by law, 21 years old. anybody with college kids can tell you its an age at which we havent quite reached our real strong decision making capability yet. whether or not they want to put this young lady on tv which this case will get more air time and talk about who told her what to do with this little animal and when and explain th...

The environment always changes, we have to change with that. we continue to pay a lot of attention to that. as we executed this operation, i think we took very prudent measures to make sure that our forces, all of our coalition forces operating with us were well protected and well aware of what was going on and we had prudent measures in place and weve entrusted our commanders on the ground to, you know, with the authority and decision-making capability to go on as they make the assessment. im v...

Always changes and we have to change with that. we continue to pay a lot of attention to that. as we executed this operation, we took very prudent measures to make sure our coalition forces are operating with us are well-protected, well-aware whats going on and we had prudent measures in place. what we have done is weve trusted our commanders on the ground with the authority and the decision making capability to resume operations as they assess the environment. >> anything additional that you ca...