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Arrival point for afghans. i also visited fort lee and i visited with afghans, our troops, the many federal agencies working together and ngos. the competent and compassionate service made a deep impression on me. we should do all we can to make a transition to safe life in america. why did the afghan government collapse so quickly and why did the u.s. government overestimate their capacity? to any who have said we couldnt see this coming, the members of this committee know thats wrong. an immed...

Over biden not taking his or their advice. what sort of consequences at this point, after listening to this hearing, what sort of consequences should there be and for whom? >> sandra, im one of those, i feel like yes, indeed, he should resign, so should general austin. there are ways to administratively separate individuals from the u.s. military. i am certain that after we are going through the hearings that you will see some shifting of leadership at dod. the white house cant be pleased with s...

I was going to mentioned somebody that i know personally myself that was an siv that has a brother still in the country with his family, theyre not getting any answers either. theyre one of the families out there complaining that theyre reaching out to the dod, reaching out to find out how to bring him here. theyre still not hearing anything yet. neil? >> neil: yeah, thats disturbing to put it mildly. thanks, aishah hasnie in the capitol. i want to go to william boykin. you know him a familiar r...

Assess train, leadership, and will. we can count intel assets but you cant measure the human heart with a many schine. >> thank you. secretary, you may want to respond to this on the next round. but one of the challenges with getting special immigrant visa applicants out of afghanistan has -- this wasnt just a problem in the evacuation. this has been an historic problem that has gone over years. thats having the documents that show they actually served with our military. and dod has been cited a...

Can assess things like leadership and will. we can count all the planes, trucks, cars, automobiles, and everything else from space and all the other kind of intel assets. but you cant measure the human heart with a machine. youve got to be there. >> thank you. secretary austin, im about to run out of time, so you may want to respond to this on the next round, but one of the challenges with getting special immigrant visa applicants out of afghanistan has -- and this wasnt just a problem in the ev...

Greater risk if we stayed past the 31st in my professional opinion. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator kaine, please. ? thank you, mr. chair. to the witnesses, i want to return to a point that senator wicker made. i informed a dod witness about ten days ago that we would expect an answer to the question of how many americans are still in afghanistan and that we would not appreciate an answer that that was deferred to state. im going to ask the question during my second round of questions aft...

On the 25th of august we recommended that the mission end on the 31st. >> thank you for that clarification. >> thank you. >> so the evacuation was chaotic, yes. we are really grateful that our military performed magnificently in evacuating over 120,000 people. secretary austin, secretary blinken acknowledged to my colleagues on the senator foreign relations committee that no one believed the afghan military and government could collapse as early as it did. however, u.s. forces conducted at least...

The firtion of the eight forts that processed afghanistan and i visited afghans, troops and ngos. the competent and compassionate service on the american side and the deep gratitude among afghans made a deep impression on me. we should do all we can to make the transition to a safe life in america as productive as possible. my chief criticism and question why did the afghan security forces and government collapse so quickly and why do d the u.s. so overestimated their capacity. the second questi...

Recommend senator gillibrand, please. >> are you aware of any internal audits within the department of defense over the execution of the war over the last 20 years? >> i am not, other than the aar activity that we will conduct within the department. >> whats that? >> after action review. >> what will that -- what will make up that review? >> well focus on, you know, the things that have occurred as part of this latest operation, but i think your initial question, was there review over the last 2...

Are treated respectfully and responsibly both on a dod basis such as ensuring that they can be transitioned into their new lives in the united states. we also have the responsibility to our troops and to all americans to make sure that we have a complete picture of what we did, plishged, and happened over the last 20 years across all the administrations. we have to look back so that we can do better when we look forward. one way to do better is to make sure congress maintains and fulfills its co...