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0 theres no doubt in my mind that our efforts prevented an attack on the homeland from afghanistan, which was our core original mission. and everyone who has served in that war has been proud. your service mattered. beginning in 2011, we steadily drew down our troop numbers, consolidated and closed bases and retrograded equipment from afghanistan. at the peak in 2011, we had 97,000 u.s. troops alongside 41,000 nato troops in afghanistan. ten years later, when ambassador calisade signed the agree...

In that commission to go after people like nancy pelosi, and i believe the american people need her to testify under oath about her actions leading up to january 6th and her conversations with chairman milley about the nuclear code. >> mark: maybe they will subpoena her phone calls, her texts, her e-mails, her records so we can find out exactly what took place. in the final moments we have left, to underscore, one of the priorities she raised with you and the secretary when she called you after ...

And what he knew in advance, what he was encouraging. or like kash patel, they were at d.o.d. and would have known what was going on behind the scenes on january 6 as he was mulling over the options for trying to stop the insurrection. so this is critical information the committee doesnt yet have. thats why theyre important. >> so, jennifer, the biden administration is now taking steps, we know, to release more information on trumps meetings and calls on january 6 to this committee. the white ho...

These groups. in its really not inclusive in terms of representing the various factions in afghanistan. that sense, its more of a charade. and the repression certainly are the people going on every single day. brian: secretary of defense austin, secretary of state two weeks ago and now we have the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mark milley in front of congress next week to answer questions. house and senate. will we hear anything new? will we hear these generals say and the secretary of d...

Open or not. and then it comes down to the proper security of the airport itself if kabul was offered to us, what was the reason we didnt take kabul or at least a piece of it to help better secure the airport and the dod agreed with the president about the deadline of august 31st even though we would leave thousands of our citizens and afghan partners behind. all of those things deserve to be explored. im confident they will be explored. the congress. brian: were going to keep you on speed dial ...

Chair mark milley are set to testify next week that will be explosive. joining us now with what she wants to hear senate armed service committee member joni ernst. set me up now. i do not know you guys do this but before a major hearing like this you kind of got briefed and you were able to ask some questions ahead of time to get you ready for next week at which time what took place. >> yes. thats correct, brian. we had a closed door briefing from three dod officials. one of them being the dod p...

Americans still in afghanistan. joining me now is republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, he serves on the foreign affairs committee and is, of course, himself a veteran of the afghan war. thank you for taking the time this morning. >> thank you. >> i wonder, given the back and forth on the number of -- or estimates of the number of americans still in afghanistan, are you kconfident that the bidn administration knows how many americans are still there? >> i dont know. you know, i dont...

Milley for that statement and other problems. >> dana: d.o.d. says theyre standing by the intelligence they had for that. next tuesday, september 28th, they will be milley and austen will be testifying. well get the answers they give if they give any. next on "americas newsroom," the democrats playing by two sets of rules over the border crisis. one for them and another for republicans. >> not only did they ignore us, they said they had more efficient ways to deal with this and now we had at the...

Of the department of homeland security shoring up resources to handle the situation on the ground. this is the all of government effort mayorkas was referring to. seeking help from dod but health and human services personnel on the ground to attend to any medical issues that might arise and theyve also sent 600 agents down to the area. so all of this to get a handle of the situation as they ramp up the deportation flights to haiti. >> josh said the goal is 3,000 a day. some 12,000. do they expec...

Stumpal into some sort of conflict. and also this wasnt some secret phone call. chairman milley talked with other dod leaders. i think it was just a very prudent step by the chairman of the joint chief of staffs given what was going on. >> tuesday trump said general milly should be tried for treason if the books claims are true. obviously you dont think these phone calls sound like treason or anything close to it. you said the word overblown, all the discussion about this. overblown because trum...