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Capability? what happened there? i had an op-ed with ambassador crocker of the new york times in may, warning the administration that if youreni going to not leave the light footprint, if youre not going to leave a residual force, at least start evacuating american citizens, uathe interpreters, and establih this intelligence capability. they failed on all three counts and now were in a far more dangerous situation. maria: so and diswrows be clear for our -- and just to be clear for our audience,...

You could see terrorism coming out of there in 12, 24, 36 months. >> bill: that answer is yes. what do you make of that answer? >> look, i know general milley and highly disappointed he is being very political. thats an answer to cover yourself for later now that those warnings are happening. i have also heard him say general miller in charge of bagram gave advice to shut down bagram. i can tell you thats not true. i know that very firsthand information. general miller did not want to close bagr...

Opening monologue, none of them have offered to take responsibility for 20 years ever failure, 20 years ever lies and 20 years now that were walking away from weaker than we started. at this point, no one is going to be responsible for this. and i dont think anyone misses the fact that they did this on purpose. biden made this deal by choice. he had already paid the taliban before with obama for boberg dal. no one should forget that they knew they could take him in a deal. they took him for grou...

Were talking about a country of 38 million people, a very small force in place that could accomplish a lot for counterterrorism purposes. weve seen that in places like syria and iraq, what a force of just 1,000 or 2,000 of our people can do. >> they keep talking about over the horizon, intelligence and counterterrorism, but it would take drones hours to get there from qatar, and so then theyve wasted half the mission just going back and forth. wouldnt it have been better to keep bagram and to ke...

To keep some small, very install footprint there. but we did not. true, there is an over-the-horizon capability, but it is not a quick and easy substitute for having an actual presence there, a small presence there on the ground. i understand the desire to get out, andrea, after 20 years. but getting out doesnt necessarily mean removing every single member of the united states military from that place. as you know, we have our military in small forces stationed at a number of places around the w...

>> yeah, maria, i think this illustrates very well joe bidens incompetence in handling the withdrawal. we announced the withdrawal in the spring. we had 2500 troops in afghanistan. we now have 7,000 troops in afghanistan, maria, to try to get americans out. so we have almost 3 times as many troops in afghanistan to get out of afghanistan as we had when joe biden announced we were getting out of afghanistan. nothing can probably better indicate the incompetence of joe biden of executing the withd...