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Afgan president where it was understood that the perception of or the reality needed to change. and you know what else really gets me? he waited three more weeks before kabul fell to even have a conversation. so he was distracted, big shocker, and uninterested and ultimately the assumptions hes telling us everyone believed he knew before his eyes. this was not an intelligence failure, this was a joe biden failure. he knew this could be a possibility, made all the wrong steps in the process. and ...

People around this committee will know exactly what that means, i think there is a sense, a desire, and absolute determination to make it work, to make things better, and to believe that you can complete the task. i think there is a question at what point, and this goes back to 2001 right the way through, not an attempt to take responsibility of the last period this government has been in, but at what point did we clearly have identified the military objectives, the means to achieve them, and a ...

Neutralized isis k terrorists who they cant identify. what is going on here? independent journalist glenn greenwald, no one in the media seems concerned about another intelligence failure. why is that? >> right from the beginning there was a huge question for me which was a month ago president biden assured everybody there was little chance the taliban would overrun afghan national security forces and take over the country but that is what happened five weeks after he gave that assurance which t...

Came in and took over the entire country. they were assuming, and maybe this was an intelligence blunder or whatever, but i want to get your thoughts, congressman. they were assuming that the afghan government would be in power and the afghan military, 250,000 or 300,000 troops would simply run away. >> i dont think this was an intelligence failure. i got the intelligence assessment since may. the ambassador and i wrote "the new york times" article saying this is what you have to do. the ic got ...

Biden administration couldve done better but they have a point that they were left in a very difficult circumstance. the trump administration decided to do a deal with the taliban and its the trump administration that decided to withdraw all of our troops. if it were up to the trump administration, all the troops wouldve been out months earlier in may. the biden administration pushed her back as far as they felt they could without occurring a new offensive by the taliban. also, everyone seems to...

The ground. sources telling us on this program, this is not and was not in any way and intelligence failure. the cia, they pulled their people out weeks ago. they warned joe biden in no uncertain terms daily, and they have been warning him for months, and he never listened. and now, hes too weak, too spineless to adjust his plan, send in military come help ensure we extract every american i leave no american behind. joe biden ultimately now as of today has blood on his hands. his actions frankly...

Because a child would have understood. you get the military out last. a child would have understood that. how could they have done this to our country? >> sean: well, ive been trying to wrap my brain, and you had access to some of the brightest military mines in the world, i have been told this is not, mr. president, this was not an intelligence failure, that the warnings were dire and repeated, and the intelligence community pulled their own people out many weeks ago seeing what was on the hori...

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Taliban, which is relying on the people who want to kill us, and the people who will be left behind are the first people on their list to kill. and it is a disgrace for our country. >> sean: you know, ric, i keep going back, because the taliban was on the march. we watch them in april and may and june. it should have been, you know, a five-alarm fire while we had control of kabul. all of this could have been done with no risk to anybodys life. all of our allies could have been extracted. every a...

Biggest threat to american troops. >> do we know how many are out there? >> hundreds to thousands is the best estimate i have heard. >> director brennan, clearly yesterday was not an intelligence failure, the warnings were out there, but as general mackenzie put it, anytime you build a plan like this, you expect to be attacked. what do you see to be the biggest threat in the waning days and who? >> it is almost an impossible task to provide security to the airport there in kabul. the u.s. is not...