if there is a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling the classified information after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the street. trey: you know, i think people should be treated the same without regard to political ideology, i remember that jim comey press conference well. i want to ask you about something you care about and have, our foreign policy, we're at one year mark in afghanistan after the withdrawal, i want to play a clip from general mckenzie. >> in your opinion was the withdrawal a mistake. >> i advised against withdraw, my re me recommendation and opinion, i realize the taliban could have chosen to attack us, i do not believe, that we
if there is a prosecution of donald trump for mishandling the classified information after the clinton debacle, there will be riots in the street. trey: you know, i think people should be treated the same without regard to political ideology, i remember that jim comey press conference well. i want to ask you about something you care about and have, our foreign policy, we're at one year mark in afghanistan after the withdrawal, i want to play a clip from general mckenzie. >> in your opinion was the withdrawal a mistake. >> i advised against withdraw, my re me recommendation and opinion, i realize the taliban could have chosen to attack us, i do not believe, that we
military commanders that were on the ground in afghanistan. we just heard from general frank mckenzie and his advice was not heeded by this president. and so i think that there are so many mistakes that have been made and yet the administration refuses to acknowledge those mistakes. and we know when that happens they are repeated in the future. so let's take care, let's heed the warnings of those that know the situation on the ground, and hopefully not ever go through something like this again in the future. >> gillian: it is not, senator, as you know, unheard of for an american president to go against the advice of his foreign policy advisors. it is slightly more unusual for a sitting president to go against the advice of sitting military commanders in the field, which it appears he did
President Joe Biden is a "fool" if he has no regrets about his decisions involving the withdrawal from Afghanistan, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Fox News on Sunday night.
mckenzie who was the head of u.s. central command and oversaw the withdrawal from afghanistan. he made important points about what led to the chaotic withdrawal and plenty of criticism for decisions made by the last two the administrations both biden and trump wanted to get troops out. >> president of the united states owns the final responsibility for these actions. i believe we had two presidents of the united states that wanted to exit afghanistan and might not have had anything else in common but shared that view. it allowed the events that occurred to occur in the manner they did. >> general mckenzie and senior leaders at the pentagon recommended keeping at least 2500 u.s. troops in afghanistan. that would have allowed them to keep bagram.