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will react in moments. first this. >> john: fox news alert to kick off "america reports." federal judge has ordered the government to file a "more detailed receipt for all the materials seized during the unprecedented mar-a-lago raid." im john roberts in washington, happy tuesday, sandra. >> sandra: you as well, john. sandra smith in new york. the judge also ordering the release of the findings from the private filter team review. this as we await a final answer on whether that judge w...

also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nations capitol, so...

News contributor. here we are a year after the disastrous pullout in which hundreds of americans, green card holders, afghan allies, were left behind and yet other than this remembrance that we have been doing the last few days, this issue has been all but forgotten in the biden administration attempt to leave it behind and move on. >> yeah, it has john, thanks for having me. not the only debacle they have walked away from, i dont care if its afghanistan, the problem is going to happen in ukrain...

To change the plan. if youre going to go to zero and youre going to keep enough forces to hold your embassy in the airfield, it is incompatible to hold another base anywhere in the country. thats a policy decision to hold bagram under that base. i did not see any tactical utility to bagram. >> general, isnt it true that the president rejected your best military opinion and advice as to how quickly to withdraw american troops from afghanistan? >> well, i will say this. it has been my view that we...

Allowed us to hold airfields as well. once you make a decision to go to zero it is no longer feasible to hold bagram. courtney, first of all, what is the reaction from the military community about the way they have been questioned and the disagreement laid bare. it is brutal honesty. >> thats right, so a lot of this has been reported in the media as you well know. there has been reports since president biden make his decision and announcement in april. there have been a number of reports by un...

Tactical reason to hold bagram. i assume that means strategically would you see value -- >> i said no tactical reason to hold bagram, talking about the neo operation. we went to 650 and given order to conduct neo. for the reason the secretary and chairman outlined, center of gravity was hkia, where people are, mog operating to move airplanes in and out. i will tell you this, representative, we had a branch plan to seize bagram air field, should hkia have become untenable. that would have require...

And we were -- we had a change of mission to go to zero and bring the troops down to a number that was only required to maintain an embassy, the bagram decision was made at that point. >> isnt it true that the president rejected your best military opinion and advice as to how quickly to withdraw american troops from afghanistan? >> it has been my view that we should have -- that i recommended a level of 2,500, a level that would have allowed us to hold bagram and other airfields as well. >> gene...

0 during this process, the views of all of the joint chiefs of staff, all of us, the centcom commander, general mckenzie, general miller, and myself were all given serious consideration by the administration. we provided a broad range of options and our assessment of their potential outcomes. we couched that in cost, benefit, risk-to-force, risk-to-mission. all of that was evaluated against the national security objectives of the united states. on 14 april, the president of the united states, pr...

This is that the president decided early on that this was going to beautiful medic mission is that a military operation. he allowed the department of state to run this without support from the department of defense and secretary -- you cant hide it with that mind-set, you start think of things like i dont want too many troops on that airfield to secure it and hold it for long enough and i got a feeling as this president gave orders or gave a dictate that said basically hey, look, i dont want a c...

Thats not happening. thats not the policy but it is what is happening. its almost gobble make it and this is decreased to a mere trickle. there is still thousands of people stranded. you also have to understand there is people all over afghanistan. our allies and u.s. citizens all over afghanistan to put the entire operation just in kabul airport was a real lack of planning. it was one of the stupidest things we did. joe biden said, look, we have to bring it down to 600 marines. that was an arbi...