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Invasion. in a moment youll see president biden take what is known as the family photo. all of these world leaders coming together in this historic setting and then we will hear from president biden at the start of the long day where hes expected to make several statements. >> he has three critical meetings today. three separate sets of meetings. the g7 leaders are all going to be here as well. for the president, the pressure is enormous right now to do something to stop the slaughter thats goin...

>> social seits fair to say yo overwhelmed by the lack of response from the u.s. >> at best ive been whelmed. >> okay. what do you want to hear from the president tomorrow? >> i think well hear one thing that is very important, which is the alliance, nato is united and were increasing substantially our force posture in natos east. thats wonderful. nato should be taking a more robust approach led by washington to provide weapon systems to ukraine. we need to make sure the s300s get to ukraine imm...

If the russians were to invade and come into ukraine, they would have a very hard fight against not just the ukrainian military, but the ukrainian people. they fought against the russians on the eastern front who will take up arms again. this is a potent force that the russians are going to have to deal with if they are thinking about invading. thats part of the deterrence as well. and the white house is also indicated that if the russian tanks come in -- moving west, start moving west into ukra...

Seas and in space and cyberspace. were also pursuing a more distributed force posture in the indo-pacific, one that will help us bolster deterrence and counter-incursion and operate forward with our trust thed allies and partners -- trusted allies and partners. were developing new concepts of authorizations that will bring the american way of war into the 21st century working closely with our unparalleled global network of partners and allies. ladies and gentlemen, we will always stand ready to ...

>> so the president followed the advice in executing the withdrawal. as we already established the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. let me ask you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities but if you stayed there at a force post...

Scott miller, the last u.s. commandner afghanistan made to it president biden. >> all of the parties had an opportunity to provide input and that input was received. >> the white house press secretary jen psaki attempted to clarify. >> we made clear, secretary austin said, if he stayed there at a force posture of 2,500, certainly youd be in a fight with the taliban and youd have to reinforce. so what should everybody take from that? there was a range of viewpoints. >> psaki went on to say the pr...

Advice of his military advisors in planning and executing this withdrawal. as weve already established, the seeds for our failure in afghanistan were planted many, many years ago. so let me ask you one more question, secretary austin. knowing what you know now, if we had stayed in afghanistan for another year, would it have made a fundamental difference? >> again, it depends on what size you remain in at and what your objectives are. there are a range of possibilities, but if you stayed there at...

Maintain 4,500 at that time. those were my personal views. i also have a view that the withdrawal of those forces would lead inevitably to the collapse of the afghan military forces, and eventually, the afghan government. >> reporter: biden had told abc news he didnt remember anyone recommending those levels to him. >> so no one told you -- your military advisers did not tell you, no, we should keep 2,500 troops. its been a stable situation for the last several years. we can do that and continue...

0 why wasnt action taken to secure the kabul airport or retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. youre right, the tempo had picked up significantly, yet the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie routinely engaged the afghan leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and further stiffen their defenses, to no avail. to compound that, presiden...

0 retake bagram then? >> thank you, senator. you are right, the tempo had picked up significantly. the taliban continued to make advances. our entire chain of command, myself, the chairman, general mckenzie, routinely engaged in after began leadership to encourage them to solidify their defensive plans, to make sure they were providing the right logistics to their troops and stiffen their defenses to no avail. and to compound that, president ghani continued to make changes in the leadership of t...