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Who are these individuals that should have been on the game and wasnt and are they going to be held accountable? who would you point to? >> having been involved in discussions with central command and the uscis and the state department, the one thing i have to say is the people on the ground were very sympathetic. its a breakdown in leadership. a lot of people that would hear our case and completely agr with it and never got done what they didnt get done in most cases. so i think the leadership ...

>> nancy, what i would tell you is throughout the month of august -- in fact, well before the month of august, there was a very robust, steady, frequent interagency process -- decision-making process. we started thinking about and planning for a noncombatant evacuation as far back as april, and we did not do that in a vacuum. there was ample discussions about that through the spring, and all through the summer, the chairman and the secretary take seriously their requirement to provide the comman...

Oligarch sanctions list, seven oligarchs also going after putins personal spokesperson, dmitri pescov, you often hear from him the one talking to reporters, no plans to invade ukraine of course, we know thats not true. theyre added to the list, also going after visa restrictions to seven russian oligarchs and their family as well. there is the big question here tonight of banning russian oil imports, something the president has been asked about and notably here in washington, there is bipartisan...

0 to see this entirely different set of arguments played around the same set of facts in this case. thank you for covering it, and thank you for being with us for the hour. chuck will be back tomorrow with more "meet the press daily." katy tur has more news now. >> in a facebook post, february 16th, we were told will be the day of the attack, and we will make it a day of unity. we will hang national flags, wear blue and yellow ribbons and show our unity. again, this is from president zelensky,...

Interagency process that the rapid withdrawal timeline that the white house pentagon signed off on, general miller proposed, middle of july, would negatively impact getting out our civilians. if we dropped to zero by july, had civilian evacuation ordered, we would be in trouble. did you advise to that effect in the interagency process? did you warn about that possibility of drawing down so quickly before a civilian evacuation was underway? >> the -- yeah, but it is more complicated than that. th...

0 retrograde our equipment and that was accomplished. general miller executed the plan in accordance with the plan. a key part of the plan was to maintain an embassy in kabul and maintaining that embassy would allow the government to continue to provide resources to support the afghan security sources. so it was, the plan was to leave a diplomatic presence there and in conjunction with that plan, we were going to leave a small military force there to help secure the embassy. that was the plan, s...

Debacle now sph. >> afghan political leadership and the incentive structure the united states and many of its international allies put in place, we setup an incentive structure that rewarded the most corrupt. and again, i beg to differ with you, tommy. a lot of us its not in hindsight. a lot of us had been talking about pakistan and corruption for years. that interagency process -- sorry? >> i think what was lacking were the solutions. you know, its not like they werent -- >> im sorry, tommy. th...

Oval office, the chief of staff, the president or some senior official placed that call immediately to omb to start that call. and i think this is just a fraction of the documents that we hope to see. and i think senator schumer, if he were able to get his hands on, wed start to fill out this picture of what exactly happened. >> we are looking at this email in the context of senator schumers letter to his senate colleagues. what type of information, what type of documents does senator schumer be...

Inaccurate and that this hold had been announced before and it was all part of an interagency process. well, if that was the case, then why did michael duffey send another email on september 11th saying "im glad this issue is behind us"? when i read that, that indicated to me that he was aware at the time of how unusual all this was. >> david, congress didnt raise this, but your organizations reporting did suggest that the mere withholding of the aid may have been illegal. how so? >> yeah, well,...

White house was withholding security aid to ukraine during conversations with ambassador taylor on july 18th, 2019. however, as i testified before, i was never able to obtain a clearance regarding the specific reason for the hold, whether it was bureaucratic that in nature, which often happens or indicated concern in the interagency process. i never participated in any of the subsequent dod or dos review meetings that others have described so i cant speak to what was discussed in those meetings....