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Outrageous. maria: and extraordinarily last week we saw general mark milley admit that he has been talking to all of these writers with their anti-trump books instead of having a serious and well thought out plan out of afghanistan. your thoughts on what we learned on all of those hearings and testimonies that we heard last week from defense secretary lloyd austin blaming the state department for delaying the evacuation of civilians out of afghanistan. look, you were there, you ran the dod durin...

Guard troops to help defend the capitol, at 1:30 p.m., at that exact same time, the department of homeland security,home security, sent a message over to the pentagon saying that there were no major instances of law breaking happening in d.c. at that moment. its crazy how disorganized and messy law enforcements response to the january 6th chaos was and it highlights just how important it is that we find out with clarity and beyond any debate who in the white house knew what when. and if people i...

Outrageous. maria: and extraordinarily last week we saw general mark milley admit that he has been talking to all of these writers with their anti-trump books instead of having a serious and well thought out plan out of afghanistan. your thoughts on what we learned on all of those hearings and testimonies that we heard last week from defense secretary lloyd austin blaming the state department for delaying the evacuation of civilians out of afghanistan. look, you were there, you ran the dod durin...

Calling over to the pentagon, simultaneously, begging them to authorize national guard units to come to the capitol to try to reinstate some semblance of control and to try to protect the proceedings that were going on in the capitol building. we dont know exactly, and one of the big questions for the select committee, we dont know exactly how decisions in the pentagon were made that day, regarding the deployment of the national guard. we know the national guard troops were on standby as early a...

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I am the guy that pulled the baby over the wall. it is definitely probably one of the greatest things i have ever done in my entire life. i just want to thank all the support from all yall. it just really means a lot. im glad to be home now today. thank you. >> now, there may be other instances of u.s. troops lifting babies over the wall at kabul airport. of course that was a very chaotic final few days in afghanistan. again, the marine corps. says, sorry, that simply is not him. they put out a ...

Been corollas. one of the of the things that me most on my reading and obviously you know more, the corolla was parked next to a u.s. registered calpurnia-based ngo that was delivering humanitarian assistance. i guess the question is, did the dod know about the ngo in advance of the strike? >> i would prefer, since its under investigation, i would like to defer that question. >> i would hope that we can make sure going forward that our department will cross-check intelligence to make sure that a...

That there were costs and risks and lives would have been lost. thats the type of discussion that we need to have. but to jump down the presidents throat because he actually had to make the decision in an impossible situation i think does a grave disservice to this committees ability to do effective and honest nonpartisan oversight. costs were going to be borne here. there was no easy option and i do hope people will remember this as we go through the questions and answers that will proceed. wit...

Influenced by president ghani. >> i understand. youve said its the states responsibility. what responsibility do you have for the afghans who stood shoulder to shoulder with our troops? how many do you commit to getting out by the end of the year? >> i have a responsibility to get out as many as i can over time and how many do i commit to getting out? everyone that i can. >> general mckenzie, there are reports that d.o.d. reduced air strikes as early as may when troops were just beginning to wit...

>> mr. secretary, i understand that, what were trying to get to, what did the president know? did he forget or not being truthful? >> i view that as inappropriate question and will not -- >> you may, the american people dont. we deserve accountability and lieutenants are being thrown under the bridge for suggesting that. erode precisely because everyone in the dc bubble appears to have some sort of immunity from the basic standards america is expected to live by thchlts is one of the biggest blu...