the second thing that you could learn from these transcripts is essentially looking at the questioning here s an example of what i mean garrett s equal who worked for peterton vera in the white house is asked by the investigators isn t it a fact that you told your wife to leave d.c. prior to january six, obviously meaning that you are aware that there would be violence. he takes the fifth but that if you are jacks myth and is an advanced a gator you will dig deep on, how did they know that? can they get the spouse to testify, is it worth immunizing? if you immunize him he is then forced to testify he no longer has a fifth amendment so there are things that can provide some leads, albeit tomorrow i think they will probably learn a whole more when we get the report and footnotes and a lot of the appendices and join
you are jacks myth and is an advanced a gator you will dig deep on, how did they know that? can they get the spouse to testify, is it worth immunizing? if you immunize him he is then forced to testify he no longer has a fifth amendment so there are things that can provide some leads, albeit tomorrow i think they will probably learn a whole more when we get the report and footnotes and a lot of the appendices and join documents. john banks you ve been part
mitch mcconnell says there will be no gop legislative agenda announce inside the senate but roadblocking they have gone deep on. they tried to block tr government funding yesterday by going after vaccine mandates. is that a brand? can it be a policy? can it be a governing idea? it could be an election idea. running against the incumbent and criticizing the president s platform without laying out the specifics. that s a strategy that s assessed in the past. elections that we ll see in the midterms, i think next year are the people who are in power at the moment is democrats. that s a strategy that republicans have decided to pursue. if they win control of congress as they hope to do, it does not
i ll just say for most of my experience when i was in afghanistan the input that i got from our commanders was that this year would be different. we ll be able to do things better but i got a completely different assessment when i went to the mess hall and ate with the shoulders and marines and folks on the ground who said i don t trust these folks we re with. i don t know if they ll fight. they don t show up. they get their paycheck but they don t show up. now there may have been instances where they performed and i know you ve highlighted some of those. my questions from a strategic standpoint did we just become fixated on some tactical performance from our forces and their forces and forget to measure the afghan security forces institutional health as a fighting force that could sustain a fight even though they are in an incredibly weak economy and cultural issues? clearly questions that we have to drill deep on.
0 retake bagram then? thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of the military and this created further problems for the afghan security forces. mr. secretary i don t mean to interrupt but my time is lapsing. this gets to the overestimation, i think the overly optimistic assessment. even as late as july you are still encouraging the afghan special forces, you are expecting the ghani government to remain, but that was not the case. in december of 2019 the washington post reported the u.s. military commanders privately expressed a lack of confidence that the a