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Evacuation order wed in a lot of trouble. did you ever advise to that -- to that effect during the inter agency process? did you warn about that possibility of drawing down so quickly before civilian evacuation was under way? >> yeah, but its more complicated than that. the drawdown of the forces under miller, those guys are advisers. they are not the neo kind of guys. the neo troops are marine expeditionary unit and elements of the 82nd airborne division. thats what you need in order to do the ...

As of late april it was your opinion that the evacuations of civilians should begin, should begin earlier than they did? >> we provided input to -- to try to get out as many afghans who have helped us along the way as, you know, as early as possible, but, again, the state department made its decisions based upon the fact that even.ghani had engaged them and said, hey, were very concerned about the mass exodus of civilians from the country. >> general mill year, let me direct this to you. did you...

0 also a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow us to continue to engage the government, to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security forces so it was -- the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there, and in conjunction with that plan we also were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy, so that was the plan, senator. >> but you didnt address the issue that you made -- if it was your ...

Security adviser? >> i expect quite a bit. john bolton has one thing that a lot of trump appointees have not had and that is extensive experience working the bureaucracy. and i think bolton is going to be able to implant himself and start shaping what the national security council personnel looked like, more america firsters and protecting them, their positions. and also hes going to be able to play the inter agency process pretty well vis-a-vis mike pompeo, who will be secretary of state we pre...

>> you wrote an epic piece after his weekend tweet storm last weekend describing it as a dereliction of duty that hes done nothing. and we now have as if the unanimous opinion of the intelligence community under two presidents, democrats and republican told him the russia meddling piece was a fact not a theory, and you had bob muellers 13 indictments. what is the dereliction of leadership looking at all of these crimes, at least on paper, alleged crimes, that his former campaign chairman committ...