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Stephanopoulos says, no one told you, military advisors did not tell you, no, we should keep 2500 troops, we can do that, biden says no, no one said that to me. >> you read quickly through it has been a stable situation part, that is the important part. >> look, it is open to individual interpretation, we both made our point, american people can use common sense, it is alarming, whatever, i yield back. >> mr. lauriet. >> general milley, i associate myself with remarks mrs. chaney made at the beg...

In our politics lead, round two of the tense questions directed towards three top leaders at the pentagon. today members of the house armed services committee got their chance to zero in on the chaotic withdrawal from afghanistan. >> did the strike on august 28th or 29th, the one that killed ten innocents, did it require presidential approval? >> im thinking about the chain of command. somebody is making decisions about troop levels. and my understanding is it was not the dod. >> are members of ...

Troop-to-task analysis, with the task being to go to zero. but you also have to defend the embassy. >> im thinking about the chain of command. somebodys making decisions about troop levels and my understanding the it was not the dod. it was the state department. or the white house. i want to know who said, were going to go to 650. >> it was a military analysis that 6 to 700 could adequately defend the embassy and that was approved through the highest levels. >> who made the decision? >> i would ...

Sustained a level of effort in afghanistan with our military, 2500 or 3500, in those ranges, i didnt think the taliban could defeat the afghan security forces. that was my assessment at the time and i thought success meant negotiated settlement between the government and taliban and power-sharing agreement to end the war. >> thank you, general milley, 15 seconds. secretary austin has u.s. military and dod better assess risk of fall-out such as this one? >> we continue to take a look at ourselves...

State. the drawdown of u.s. forces was ordered by the president in april. pleated in july. the non-combatant evacuation is a separate mission and not completely under control of the department. >> you will fall back on the divide between d.o.d. and state. >> dana: i want to fall back on the orders i got. >> i will fall back on the orders that i receive, representative. >> secretary austin, you presided in part over the withdrawal of forces from iraq. i know you at times requested more troops on ...

The collapse of the military and the collapse of the government. and when those two things happen, then it was going to be a choose ic chaotic situation. >> and the collapse of the government and the collapse of the military was solely the responsibility of this administration. i know yall are trying to be careful politically, but it was the state department and the white house that told you to make those drawdown of troops from 2,500 to 650 to 0. it was the speed with which they done it that th...

That. i have some questions to begin with. general milley in your testimony you noted the speed and scale of the collapse of the afghan army and government was a surprise. y*et the taliban was gaining ground in june and july before their arrival in kabul. as we now look to the future of afghanistan but also think about our operations across the globe, what lessons specific to our intelligence gathering and an all size dod can learn from this experience? do you think its time for a larger rethink...

Provide oversight to what occurred on august 29th. what we know from your prior statements, you did not know, who was in the car, whose house it was, or who or how many people were in the house. this greatly concerns me as we look to the over the horizon claims that the administration has of its ability for counterterrorism. you did not, as your goal was stated, thwart or disrupt an innocent attack, you killed an innocent man, and yet an attack didnt happen. there are serious concerns regarding ...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...

0 of its troops, contractors and non-diplomatic personnel from afghanistan no later than may 1st, 2021. in june 2020 the u.s. troop levels reached 8600. in october president -- former president trump tweeted we should have a small number of remaining brave men and women serving in afghanistan home by christmas. in november 17, 2020 then acting secretary of defense miller announced well implement former president trump east order to continuing repositioning forces from afghanistan. and the 2500 u...